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RFK Jr.: Lawsuit revealed EPA pesticide head secretly worked for Monsanto
“When we sued EPA we got discovery documents. That showed that the head of the pesticide division, Jess Rowland, had been secretly working for Monsanto for a decade. And, you know, sending memos back and forth with Monsanto, directing them, you need to kill thi…”
Friedberg: WHO IARC ruling on Roundup led to $10B settlement
“And that ruling led to a ten billion dollar lawsuit that Monsanto or now Bayer is settling which wasn't rooted in the science or the facts that, that the other scientists on the committee had kind of previously kind of previewed and gone through and said, this…”
Roundup lawsuits will cost Bayer $10 billion to $15 billion to settle
“These lawsuits are now gonna cost Monsanto and now Bayer, which bought Monsanto, somewhere between 10 and fifteen billion dollars to settle this.”
ChemChina outbid Monsanto by $3 billion to acquire Syngenta
“When I was at Monsanto, we were, we bid for the largest ag chemicals company in the world based out of Switzerland. It's called Syngenta, and we bid like forty four billion dollars to buy this company, and the largest chemical company in China called ChemChina…”