Originally posted on people’s trust, toronto:

The number of U.S. lawsuits brought against Bayer’s (BAYGn.DE) newly acquired Monsanto has jumped to about 8,000, as the German drugmaker braces for years of legal wrangling over alleged cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers. Bayer had previously disclosed 5,200 such lawsuits against Monsanto, which it acquired in a…

via Bayer’s Monsanto faces 8,000 lawsuits on glyphosate — Rangitikei Enviromental Health Watch