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Bayer Reneges on Promise to Remove Glyphosate from Roundup

Bayer Reneges on Promise to Remove Glyphosate from Roundup

October 29, 20241 min read

In 2021, Bayer, the German company that owns the herbicide RoundUp announced that it would remove glyphosate from its Roundup line of weed killers for residential lawns and gardens by 2023 after paying out over $10B in settlements of legal claims that it caused Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Currently, their website states "To further reduce future litigation risk, we have transitioned the manufacturing of our glyphosate products for the U.S. residential L&G market to new formulations that have different active ingredients starting in 2023. We have taken this action exclusively to manage litigation risk and not because of any safety concerns." (No mention of stopping the sale of glyphosate to farmers for use on our food.) Well, 2023 has come and gone so I checked the Roundup store on Amazon. I found seven products for home use. Two of them contained glyphosate as the sole herbicide. One contained glyphosate with an added toxic chemical (diquat dibromide) that was banned in the EU in 2018 and has been banned in the UK and Switzerland as well. This same diquat is now found in three of the other Roundup products. It seems Bayer has jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire while giving us the finger. They may have just made their products more toxic. But, they make enough off dousing our food with it in commercial agriculture, they can afford to pay for a few homeowner's cancers, AND their lives. Can you just imagine what $10B of R&D into safe, organic herbicides could have discovered if it didn't have to settle lawsuits?

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