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'Vindication': Bayer Reaches $10 Billion Settlement Over Roundup Cancer Lawsuits

Demonstrators walk with placards during a march for agroecology and civil resistance against U.S. seed and pesticide maker Monsanto on May 20, 2017 in Bordeaux, southwestern France.

Judge Rules California Requirement of Cancer Warning Label for Glyphosate Violates Corporate 'Free Speech'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

The World Health Organization's cancer research arm classified glyphosate—the active ingredient in weed-killers like Bayer's Roundup—as probably carcinogenic for humans.

'Victory for Farmers' as Jury Awards Grower $265 Million in Damages From Drift of Monsanto's Dicamba

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Brad Rose looks at rows of soybean plants that show signs of having been affected by Dicamba use on Aug 9, 2017

"This verdict is just the tip of the iceberg."

Critics: Trump EPA's Formal Assertion Glyphosate Poses No Risk to Human Health Indication of 'Troubling Allegiance' With Bayer/Monsanto

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

The EPA formally declared Thursday that weedkiller chemical glyphosate poses no threat to human health. Activists were outraged.

"It's open season on clean air, water, and soil."

Trump's EPA Goes to Bat for Bayer as Company Fights $25 Million Verdict in Roundup Cancer Case

Critics Say Monsanto's Spying and Intimidation Operation Exposes Company's 'Toxic Corporate Culture' and Threatens Journalists' Rights

Judge Releases German Rescue Ship Captain, Saying Carola Rackete Was Fulfilling 'Her Duty to Protect Life'

'Good News': Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate

'Saving Lives Is Not a Crime': Captain of Refugee Rescue Ship Arrested in Italy, Faces Up to 10 Years in Prison

EPA Urged to Put Public Health Over Monsanto Profits by Banning Cancer-Linked Glyphosate

New Testing Revealed Popular Kids Cereals Contaminated With Weedkiller Roundup

'Historic' Verdict as Jury Orders Monsanto to Pay Record $2 Billion to Couple in Roundup Cancer Trial

Bernie Sanders Takes on Monsanto, Big Ag Monopolies With Plan to 'Revitalize Rural America'

Back in Iowa, Sanders Says Big Ag's Stranglehold a Key Part of 'Major Crisis' Facing Rural America

Green Groups Say Trump EPA Backing Monsanto's Claim Glyphosate Not a Health Threat 'Completely Ignores Science'

'Huge Victory': French Court Finds Monsanto Guilty of Poisoning Farmer

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We Made New Cancer Drug For Rich White People Not (Ick) Poor Indian People, Pharma Giant CEO Actually Says Out Loud

Up there in the annals of multinational corporations doing heinous things in the name of obscene profits comes the German-based Bayer's response to India ending the pharma giant's monopoly for a pricey new anti-cancer drug, thus allowing a small Indian company to make a generic version that poor sick people can afford. A year of Bayer's Nexavar costs $96,000 in the U.S. and $69,000 in India, 41 times the per capita income; India's Natco Ltd. made it for $177 a year. Outraged Bayer officials...