{"id":6939,"date":"2021-08-23T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T04:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2021-08-23T00:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T04:24:59","slug":"the-unending-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-unending-war-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The unending war continues\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026no not the one in Afghanistan but the fight over Roundup\u2026the herbicide banned most places but here. \u00a0It\u2019s been going on almost as long!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a controversy that has, if nothing else, revealed the unholy alliance between Big Pharma and the government which is \u201chere to protect us\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the way, there\u2019ve been many successful lawsuits and government (not U.S.) bans against using the product. \u00a0Now Bayer is advancing the defense that since the American government hasn\u2019t outlawed its use, cancer victims have no right to sue for damages and wrongful death. \u00a0Meanwhile Bayer plans to continue selling Roundup but under a new name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Salatin in his latest blog tries to sort out the nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\/8\/16\/2021\/government-corporate-collusion\">https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\/8\/16\/2021\/government-corporate-collusion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026no not the one in Afghanistan but the fight over Roundup\u2026the herbicide banned most places but here. \u00a0It\u2019s been going on almost as long! It\u2019s a controversy that has, if nothing else, revealed the unholy alliance between Big Pharma and the government which is \u201chere to protect us\u201d. Along the way, there\u2019ve been many successful lawsuits and government (not U.S.) bans against using the product. \u00a0Now Bayer is advancing the defense that since the American government hasn\u2019t outlawed its use, cancer victims have no right to sue for damages and wrongful death. \u00a0Meanwhile Bayer plans to continue selling Roundup but under a new name. Joel Salatin in his latest blog tries to sort out the nonsense. https:\/\/www.thelunaticfarmer.com\/blog\/8\/16\/2021\/government-corporate-collusion David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,13,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-david","category-monsanto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6940,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions\/6940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}