IS BAYER HEADED TOWARDS BANKRUPTCY?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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With its largest legal loss yet at $2.25B, Bayer is now forced to look at some hard decisions for its tanking future as its Monsanto buyout continues to be the worst corporate takeover decision of the century.

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0:00.0	I can give an update on a story that we have been we have been rolling with the
0:05.6	beats of this story for years now what am I talking about I'm talking about
0:09.1	Monsanto and their flagship product Roundup.
0:12.7	Remember this company was bought by Bear
0:14.9	who inherited just basically a legal noose
0:17.6	around their neck with these Roundup litigations.
0:20.1	Well, if anybody doesn't know and hasn't been tracking this story, this is what it's looked like in the news over the past couple years.
0:25.6	Take a look.
0:26.6	The jury, awarding $289 million in damages.
0:31.2	Oregon reached a settlement to nearly 700 million dollars.
0:34.0	Here a G will pay more than $10 billion.
0:37.7	The widow of a Cambria farmer is suing agrochemical giant Monsanto, alleging the company's Roundup herbicide caused her husband's cancer and later his death.
0:47.0	Friday, a jury in San Francisco found Biochemical Giant Monsanto liable for former school
0:53.2	ground keeper Duane Johnson's cancer.
0:55.4	A California jury ordered the maker of round up on date to pay more than $2 billion
1:00.8	to a couple who claimed the popular weed killer caused their cancer.
1:05.6	Product Roundup led to his diagnosis of terminal non-Hodchkins lymphoma.
1:10.4	Monsanto product gave him non-Hodchkins lymphoma.
1:13.7	Developed lymphoma.
1:15.1	His wife, brother-in-law, and father-in-law,
1:17.5	all affected by non-Hodkin lymphoma.
1:20.4	Round-Up gave them cancer.
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