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Archae

(46,373 posts)
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:29 PM Feb 2019

I knew this was going to happen...

Got an e-mail, asking "Have been exposed to, or think you have been exposed to Roundup?
"Then you may be eligible to join in our lawsuit against the lawless company Monsanto!"

Seems lawyers no longer chase ambulances, now they blast out e-mails hoping to find people scared by the hysterics like Jeffrey Smith.

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I knew this was going to happen... (Original Post) Archae Feb 2019 OP
It's like big pharma advertising on the tv machine mitch96 Feb 2019 #1
Exactly. Archae Feb 2019 #3
btw your argument shanny Feb 2019 #10
That reminds me! world wide wally Feb 2019 #2
Never did get that, right? Archae Feb 2019 #4
Dayum! world wide wally Feb 2019 #5
Roundup has been shown to be toxic and dangerous. It's banned in other countries. Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #6
According to who? Archae Feb 2019 #7
You can do your own research. Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #8
+1 BannonsLiver Feb 2019 #11
Most of the claims involve gardeners and landscape workers... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #12
My son MFM008 Feb 2019 #13
Stop putting toxic crap in my beer, Monsanto-Bayer Achilleaze Feb 2019 #9

mitch96

(13,944 posts)
1. It's like big pharma advertising on the tv machine
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:32 PM
Feb 2019

Why use unreliable doctors to push their drugs when they can go right to the customer and have THEM ask the doc's to prescribe their drugs...... ugh
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Archae

(46,373 posts)
3. Exactly.
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:38 PM
Feb 2019

Now I see prescription ads for people with bipolar.

And I just watched a "60 Minutes" segment on how the company that makes oxycontin marketed it to doctors.

What should we do?

Ban *ALL* chemicals?
Life is made out of chemicals!

No, this is like I said, the 21rst century version of the lawyers like the one that pestered the detectives on that show "Barney Miller."

world wide wally

(21,760 posts)
2. That reminds me!
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:37 PM
Feb 2019

I was supposed to get $56 from Starkist Tuna from one of these class actions. Or maybe it was Chicken of the Sea.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
6. Roundup has been shown to be toxic and dangerous. It's banned in other countries.
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:40 PM
Feb 2019

So it's not a false premise.

Archae

(46,373 posts)
7. According to who?
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:41 PM
Feb 2019

By this "logic," everyone who used Roundup should be dead.

My Mom and I aren't. And we used it.

We did though use the proper precautions, and READ THE FUCKING LABEL.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
8. You can do your own research.
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:44 PM
Feb 2019

When something is toxic, that doesn't mean you drop down dead from using it once. As you know.

Fact: It's banned in other countries. Countries don't usually go around banning products for no reason.

The evidence is out there. I used it once years ago, then did some research on it to confirm it's safe. Whatever I found out convinced me never to use it again.

It stays in the environment, and is not contained in the area in which you use it. It can go into the water table, also.

I have a yard where any animal can nibble on anything at almost any time, and not get harmed.

What makes it worse is that Roundup is unnecessary for weeds. Boiling water, vinegar, and other safe substances do the same thing, w/o harming the environment or animals or people.

BannonsLiver

(16,547 posts)
11. +1
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:19 PM
Feb 2019

The person you’re responding to reminds me of arguments tobacco companies have made on cigarettes.

Wounded Bear

(58,778 posts)
12. Most of the claims involve gardeners and landscape workers...
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:22 PM
Feb 2019

who use that shit all the time.

If you sprayed a few dandelions in your lawn, you're not likely to be affected adversely, not that the advertisers would admit that.

"Ambulance chasers" is an apt comparison. I guess the mesothelia scare is winding down.

MFM008

(19,836 posts)
13. My son
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 02:34 PM
Feb 2019

Is a manager at home improvement store.
When he worked in the garden shop
They knew roundup was dangerous not only to good
Insects, birds and bitterflies but to people,
they didnt put it out for sale.
We have lost up to 50 percent of the worlds insects
What do we eat when poison kills them all?

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
9. Stop putting toxic crap in my beer, Monsanto-Bayer
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 01:48 PM
Feb 2019

If I wanted to glug down corporate chemicals I would buy them. But I don't. I want beer, plain and simple. Knock the sneaky, corporate chemical invasion shit off. Don't want to read any more corporate beerwashing bullshit anywhere.

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