Bayer reaches $7.25B settlement over Monsanto's Roundup accusations

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Source: Axios

11 hours ago


Bayer has agreed to a $7.25 billion deal to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that its weedkiller Roundup caused cancer.

The big picture: Bayer — which acquired Roundup when it bought Monsanto in 2018 — announced Tuesday that it'll compensate people who allegedly suffered non-Hodgkin lymphoma due to exposure to Roundup.

The German drug giant and crop science company had originally reached a $10 billion settlement in 2020 that covered short-term claims up to four years — but that deal was later scuttled amid legal scrutiny over the claims process.

The new compensation deal covers claims for up to 21 years.

The company didn't disclose the average amount expected to be distributed to each recipient.

Zoom out: The latest deal comes as Bayer awaits a Supreme Court ruling that CEO Bill Anderson has said could determine whether Roundup stays on the market in the U.S.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/bayer-roundup-settlement-monsanto

[FakeNoose]

1. Monsanto also manufactured napalm

[marybourg]

4. Bayer produced Zyklon B the poison gas

used in Nazi extermination camps.

[Envirogal]

2. No one should be using RoundUp

Or any “weed killer”. Weeds are natures’s way better f covering its soil to protect a plant’s roots. Herbicides not only kill weeds but infect the entire soil’s sensitive and complex system. It’s like DUH, and yet human’s laziness or “efficiency”is solved by poison, compounded over years of use.

Everytime I am in my local Lowe’s it makes me angry how much “gardening” supplies include poisons, including rodent control.

So much for being stewards.

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3. Problem is it's in most of our food

Grains, oats, lentils, Florida & Louisiana sugar crop —-spray with glyphosate just before harvest for uniform drying. All these items I will not touch if not organic. But because of drift, some organic has glyphosate too. Oats are some of the worst with Cheerios testing super high.