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#Warprofiteers: @Bayer lifts forecasts as food shortages boost demand for seeds and weedkiller. Almost doubles its growth forecast for 2022 as sharp increase in global food prices proves a boon for Bayer’s business ft.com/content/e938a0…
@Bayer Despite profiting from the impact of the war on food prices, @Bayer still trades close to 60% below its level before news of its #Monsanto acquisition. That has exposed Bayer to concerns #Roundup causes cancer and it triggered an investor revolt that CEO Baumann barely survived.
@Bayer Bayer has already set aside up to $16 billion for existing and future Roundup lawsuits. In June, it suffered a major legal defeat when the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal over a landmark ruling that awarded $25M to a man who claimed #Roundup had caused his cancer.
@Bayer In the 2nd quarter, @Bayer also set aside 694 million euros linked to settlement negotiations with the State of Oregon over legacy products sold by #Monsanto containing toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which have since been banned because of their toxicity/carcinogenicity.

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Nature-friendly farming does not reduce productivity, study finds. Results of 10-year project reveal that putting farmland aside for nature does not have a negative effect on food security theguardian.com/environment/20…
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“We know we have a biodiversity crisis, we know we have a climate crisis, we know the two are linked, and this is an opportunity to increase our yields as well as providing for nature.” — @jake_fiennes, head of conservation at the Holkham estate in Norfolk & author of Land Healer
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Remember Patrick Moore🤡, the guy who said you can drink a whole quart of #glyphosate and it won't hurt you, then ran away when he was offered some? His new book claims to be science-based but the researchers Moore cites in it say he got their work wrong🤡 thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/…
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@vixenvalentino Moore: You can drink a whole quart of it and it won’t hurt you.
Canal+: You want to drink some? We have some here
M: I’d be happy to, actually…Not…Not really. But I know it wouldn’t hurt me
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Tadpoles exposed to the #glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup suffer "massive malformations". Not only are the embryos smaller but heart function is impaired, and abnormal effects appear in the eyes, skull and brain tellerreport.com/life/2022-02-1…
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The #glyphosate concentrations used were ~equivalent to those detected in small stagnant bodies of water in countries like Brazil. Image
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Hey @Bayer, you told Huffington Post your firm “no longer provides financial support” to the Genetic Literacy Project. So how come their site & tax docs show you gave them 100K last year? Couldn't you do w/out this propaganda site defending your products & smearing your critics??
@Bayer So the Genetic Literacy Project, funded by Bayer, runs a piece defending the key ingredient in Roundup, one of Bayer's most lucrative products. And it's written by a former Bayer-consultant. Yet neither of those facts are disclosed anywhere in the article!
@Bayer This is why Team Bayer are pulling out all the stops
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