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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:46 AM Jul 2015

Monsanto Off the Hook for Cancers From PCBs It Produced

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/08/monsanto-hook-cancers-pcbs-it-produced

St. Louis County Circuit Court finds company not negligent

Monsanto Off the Hook for Cancers From PCBs It Produced
Andrea Germanos
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Monsanto emerged victorious on Tuesday at the end of a nearly month-long trial in which plaintiffs had alleged the former manufacturer of PCBs showed "a reckless disregard for human life."

PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, were manufactured in the U.S. from 1929 until being banned in 1979, and, according to reporting by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Monsanto was the primary manufacturer of them. The EPA classifies PCBs as probable human carcinogens.

The suit charges Monsanto with negligence for production and sale of PCBs despite knowledge of their harm.

"Such conduct was gross and flagrant and done with a reckless disregard for human life and for the safety of others," the Post-Dispatch reports the lawsuit as stating.

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Monsanto Off the Hook for Cancers From PCBs It Produced (Original Post) unhappycamper Jul 2015 OP

Banned in 1979, but they've been dumped in our waters, contaminating them, fish, etc. merrily Jul 2015 #1

Of course they got off, and that's why they've continued to wreak havoc, they don't give a damn & mother earth Jul 2015 #2

merrily

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1. Banned in 1979, but they've been dumped in our waters, contaminating them, fish, etc.

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Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:59 AM

Jul 2015

JC wept.

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mother earth

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2. Of course they got off, and that's why they've continued to wreak havoc, they don't give a damn &

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Thu Jul 9, 2015, 01:33 PM

Jul 2015

they know they will never be held accountable. Things are very, very, wrong...I can't even imagine smaller gov't, or...a TPP that would grant even more power to this kind of flagrant, knowing, intent to do harm, all without consequences for these multinat'l corps. who place profits above humanity and planet.

Reckless disregard seems to be off the charts at all levels.

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