There's some positive developments coming from the fight that you and I have been in so many others have been in for I don't know probably over a decade or more with Monsanto and now bear who took them over their fight against the roundup

and a life say herbicide product so they bear is recently lost an appeal so this was their second appeal this was in May the headline bear loses second roundup appeal a blow to curbing suits so it says here in the article bear a g this is an agricultural sector lost its second appeal of the three jury verdicts finding that the company's roundup weed killer causes cancer the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused to overturn the 2019 decision in the only case

to go to trial in federal court the decision may emboldened consumers to bring more claims beyond the many thousands of companies trying to resolve in an 11 billion dollar settlement so that settlement that they're talking about bear put aside two billion dollars to resolve all future claims whether someone has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that's the cancer that this allegedly causes or not whether it's developed or not you could develop it 10 years from now and that bear is trying to say here's two here's two billion dollars

when I set that aside if you develop that down the road we're going to pay you off maybe to the two hundred like 200,000 300,000 I think was the cap but the judge has ruled against that as well so here's the headline this has happened just as a succession as well bear requests to settle future roundup claims is denied by judge says bear a g is considering moving the controversial life is a ingredient from its residential roundup range in the U.S. after a judge rejected a proposal to resolve future claims that the wheat killer causes cancer

and just like it says they remove it and may actually remove it so hours after that decision that just happened recently this is what the headlines look like this was I believe out of Reuters bear to rethink roundup in U.S. residential market after judge nix is two billion dollars settlement so they're rethink they're basically thinking about taking taking now the U.S. market and we're noticing now that they're pushing very hard in the European Union market the EU market to get their authorization extended now for

several more years despite giving no new science despite no new testimony nothing they're just trying to get this rebooted and it looks like a play for them to try to double down in in Europe to get this thing a market bigger market share there because the U.S. market share is dwindling

and in the U.S. they have about 30,000 lawsuits still hanging in the balance that weren't kind of swept up in that original original lawsuit billion dollars of a payout so they're facing some big issues here

but there's another herbicide that they're they're also facing issues on that's called decamba it's produced by bear and also by bsf and last year we saw peach growers take them to court take those two companies to court for a 265 million dollars and they actually won this lawsuit so U.S. peach

grow a word a 265 million from bear bsf and we killer lawsuit this was in Missouri the companies are facing 140 similar cases for this for this kind of emerging new we'll call it the new roundup I guess it's nowhere near 30,000 cases but it is gaining momentum because of what's called the drift dicamba drift and it drifts over so even if we're not using these this herbicide it drifts over and it is damaging crops like it has done in your backyard in Texas

it's called this is the headline this is a horror story concerns from local farmers over chemical chemical chemical drift prompts 560 million dollar lawsuit the South of Lubbock, Texas these are the grape growers and the southern plains have filed a 560 million dollar lawsuit there's 57 grape growers that have sustained massive losses and in the article they're saying that basically grape grape plant shall last about 75 to 100 years but just in the last couple years alone one of the growers said he's he's had to replace 10,000

grape plants because of this drift they're losing massive crops and he was quoted in the article is also saying if this was happening California's Napa Valley there would be literally literal riots because of the decimation it's causing but because Texas is a little less known obviously the Napa Valley California is a wine corp it's a little bit under the radar but they are they are going to court to sue and this is this is a really big issue

wow so it's huge and all of these stories show you the value in court system something that you know I've grown accustomed to through our work with I can in our brilliant legal team I didn't used to be

you know of a sort of litigious mind but you recognize that we just it's one of the greatest tools to make change which is what is so terrifying you know we're not talking about vaccines this week really but when we think about a product that you can't sue for end the same players right bear and

months on though and you know Pfizer-Mirror all of these companies chemical companies technically they have one product you can't sue them for you can't get to this information you can't find out that they always knew there was issues and you know so even when we can find out look how long it takes but it's incredible to see you know it actually working that these lawsuits are leading to you know hopefully this stuff being pulled off of the shelves which would be such a gigantic you know

cool when I think back to when I first was reporting on glipisate being probably carcinogenic to humans back in 2015 here we are only six years later and you can see that the media has shifted on this and the story is

shifted it's amazing that the EPA and the FDA still hang in there when there's just so much bad press around this right right and here's information for our viewers a lot of our viewers are very very educated on the science and

we know a lot of people that aren't waiting for the very chemical companies to admit wrongdoing or admit their chemicals may cause harm we look at the science the breaking science and here's some of the science on on some herbicides and pesticides this was this published in June and it made mainstream news this was out of NBC the headline mom's exposure to pesticides during pregnancy can lead to childhood tumors study says this is a study in the journal of environmental research

published in June 2021's very relevant and its title is residential proximity to pesticide application as a risk factor for childhood nervous system tumors so now we know it's a risk factor and they looked again not a small study they looked at births occurring between 1998 and 2011 they looked at the California cancer registry and they looked at kids up to six years old then they saw the pesticide use reporting so they see what areas have the heavy

issues to pesticides and they found an increased risk in tumors of up to 2.5 times for certain tumors and certain pesticides and herbicides and the really interesting thing about this study is the they don't have to be farm workers a lot of the studies were on farm workers because that obviously they they want to do that to you know my opinion looking at how they do these studies they want to look at farm workers who are heavily exposed to this and say look not even a farm worker just a few of them make it sick but these were mothers that weren't

farm workers and lived up to 2.5 miles away from places that were getting heavy use and heavy spraying that were having these effects so this was the first study of its kind to to kind of show that people that were far removed literally and figuratively from the the pesticides and the industry itself that were spraying are having these effects so you know parents mothers expecting expecting parents this is something to really pay attention to really get to know your grounds your kids

school grounds the parks around around where you live very important to understand this and you can take this study and bring it to the school board you take the study and bring it to your community council and really start to shake things up because this is the science now and it's this is one of many scientific articles showing that there is issues with pregnancy and these pesticides getting into the system.

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