Weedkiller manufacturer seeks lawmakers' help to squelch claims it failed to warn about cancer
Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shield from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.
Nearly identical bills introduced in Iowa, Missouri and Idaho this year — with wording supplied by Bayer — would protect pesticide companies from claims they failed to warn that their product causes cancer, if their labels otherwise complied with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations.
But legal experts warn the legislation could have broader consequences — extending to any product liability claim or, in Iowa’s case, providing immunity from lawsuits of any kind. Critics say it could spread nationwide.
True, but what point are you trying to make here that's related to what they said? Commenting on how absolute they were about saying "causes cancer"...?
Yeah, pretty much. Curtailing foods that "cause cancer in the long term" means curtailing pretty much everything. It's about balancing risks and rewards. One shouldn't stay inside 24/7 to avoid our carcinogenic sun, and smoking weed every now and then is probably alright too. It's OK to enjoy a variety of foods and there is no way to abolish the risk of cancer in the long term. You can reduce it, but you may also choose to live a little.
For understanding things better, first we will need to stop hiding behind Usernames to get a tiny bit of credibility. Solutions exist for this, period.
I don't need NLP bots wearing me down. I've had enough of that.
Now you'd be surprised to know we're entering a period where personalities we admire may not exist.
Say an actor, a person we chat with through mobile(practically everyone), powerful people, etc. they might not exist but their profile might be generated via AI. Such possibility was not possible 20 years ago. Today, a 20 year kid can generate fake profiles.
There's a grain of truth to that, but it really isn't directly relevant to this thread. Based on just this one tiny interaction, I'm a little concerned about your mental health. I hope if you need help, you're already getting it.