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Baier a german corporate heavyweight under pressure and 21000. 00 its blockbuster merger with u. S. Rival monsanto has seemingly backfired its facing one of the deepest crises in its 155 year history. Of bowmans own fortunes christabel mon and his colleagues on the board miscalculated the risks they should have said no the deal is off to do research on. At the center of the controversy the week killer roundup and its active ingredient life did monsanto conceal the health risks as lawsuits maintained monsanto effectively made a business out of poisoning people and getting away with it. Although u. S. Courts have already ruled against bayer ordering it to pay more than 2000000000. 00 in damages it insists life is it is safe roundup does not cause cancer. Beyers annual Shareholders Meeting in april 2900. 00 a day of reckoning for c. E. O. And Supervisory Board chairman v. On a vent they are stock price has fallen nearly 50 percent since its acquisition of seed and chemical giant monsanto shareholders are going ballistic. The board takes cover. In his opening speech the nobel months tony is defensive because the Market Reaction has been exaggerated in our opinion the current stock price does not reflect the true value of our Company Rules but we understand the prevailing sense of uncertainty. The phones will. Calm on is unapologetic finding fault neither his own actions nor in those of the board as in previous years environmental activists are making noise outside beyers meeting but. Thanks to them bayer is as bad as monsanto arguably the company with the worst image in the world. I said i think i feel as if the board absolutely made a mistake and it totally misjudged the risks that monsanto was bringing into the marriage especially in view of the lawsuits that have begun piling up both sides under normal circumstances a top manager would be accused of blatant failure. This is. Funny for me im very concerned for my family my son works in a department that bears liquidating he has 3 daughters so also in this regard the future doesnt look good. So i know you said life is saved and how its evaluated scientifically is one thing but im here today as a shareholder whos horrified by the plunge and buyers share prices its i want to hear what they have to say to that. Im here to see the face of a man who was idiotic enough to buy a poison manufacturer but still made so much. Money in the process of. A man whose day of reckoning his common shareholders take the unprecedented step of backing a no confidence motion in belmont and the Management Board the censure has no legal consequences but its a stinging rebuke it makes vale not the 1st serving chief executive of a dex listed company to lose a vote of no confidence all because of monsanto. Did bayer buy a pig in the poke with its acquisition of the company in st louis was it aware of the legal risks or did the german giant take them on board expecting profits to outweigh potential legal damages profits from genetically modified seeds engineered to be used in conjunction with monsantos flagship product around the. No problem to grace is removed soon or with a shot of around up for grabs. A groundbreaking verdict in the 1st trial against monsanto alleging roundup causes cancer the jury awards 289000000. 00 to do Wayne Johnson a former School Grounds keeper from San Francisco subsequently a judge will reduce the award to 78000000 but johnsons lawyer feels vindicated. He was using a shorter pressure hose sprayer so he was spraying 150 gallons every morning. And so he is exposure was pretty extreme and prior to his exposure his skin was perfect he was healthy he had no other chemical exposures but within 2 years after starting this sort of massive sprang she developed this incredibly. Aggressive cancer that ultimately. If you take his life. Johnson suffers from an on hodgkins lymphoma a malignant cancer that forms in the lymphatic system he wants his case to serve as a precedent you know im glad to be here to be able to help with a cause is way bigger than me so hopefully this day will start to get the attention that it needs to do right supposed to make a good sures. Bayer has appealed this and every Subsequent Court ruling thats found roundup caused cancer it maintains the decisions reached by the juries failed to acknowledge Scientific Research that supports life is a use. By for i feel sorry for mr johnson and i have tremendous sympathy for what he and his family are going through when i look at the jury verdict the decision its its wrong and it doesnt change the science it doesnt change those 40 years of safe usually 800 tests of the Agricultural Health study it doesnt change the science obviously the science didnt resonate with the jury we want to understand why because we need we need to do a better job explaining the science to people understand their products are safe so debate has been raging for years over the safety of. Opinion is divided and the science is not settled. Internal Corporate Communications reveal monsanto has employed deceptive tactics to try to win the debate the socalled monsanto papers were released to the public through civil trials of 2017 journalist kerry gilham examined the documents. These are discovery documents that monsanto was forced to turn over to the plaintiffs in the litigation and so far months sandow itself says that its turned over about 10000000. 00 pages of documents and this is really been eyeopening because weve seen so much evidence of how the company has worked to hide the risks of its products. Rhonda and its active ingredient life. Few substances have been the subject of so many Clinical Trials tests on animals Laboratory Studies and analyses. But revelations on the once confidential monsanto papers called the objective of the of these studies into serious question. When monsanto says there are 800 studies showing that is safe we have no idea how many of those studies might be authentic independent scientific studies we know that the scientific literature has been corrupted. Monsantos p. R. Strategists work just busy in the United States from their headquarters in st louis to devise global campaigns for their top selling chemical likeness it. Unsealed internal documents show how early on monsanto exerted pressure to even get federal approval for the use of like to see for example from the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency the e. P. A. In the 1901990 s. The e. P. A. Decided to just go along with monsanto and overrule its own toxicologist but it was very controversial and in the final decision in which e. P. A. Determined they would classify glyphosate as not likely to be carcinogenic some of their own scientists refused to sign off on that. Carefree lead elimination thanks to round up. As bonner goes 996 ads like this one were branded misleading by the new York State Attorney general. By medical sure you know the broad advertising claims that money to was advanced in those days that somehow the road a product was entirely safe biodegradable. You know safe for pets and children. And you know less dangerous than table salt we knew otherwise for. Glee there were prohibited under federal law for making claims like that they knew the dangers of round up a but yet they were trying to sell to consumers in new york an in another states of see a different story from ridgeway illinois while monsanto was force to alter advertising in new york its continued to market round up is entirely safe another u. S. States across the country roundup remains a mainstay of Agricultural Production like here at the local farmer on cooperated in the hot summer months no one where is protective clothing and theres little concern about skin contact with the herbicide i do usually if i gets imo me im a stop but im there and i go wash in off is sometimes itll start burnin or on b. S. Some of a can heard him but if i dont think you would be miss really wife threatening that it appears most farmers are unperturbed by the debate over the safety of their read killer i over the decades monsanto when its products have made their work unless labor intensive and help them secure of higher Living Standards i thinks to advances in the technology and chemical proper to action farming is no longer back breaking work i and baier holds out the promise a further improvements for example at the Farm Progress show in boone iowa and august 2800. 00 billed as the Worlds Largest open air agricultural trade fair its of deep place to showcase the latest some Farm Technology many here are baffled by the 1st round up trial her the kids i did stu be expected come on out a california of where theyve got a world a tree huggers of people of the do not understand of isnt while bit better judge than a jury out there are good brenner and catastrophic toward. The world a better place im very worried yes we need this product and we do not need over 200000000 dollar lawsuits against monsanto are you know its better now but. I mean somebody has to pay that. This is home turf for the former monsanto employees and their new colleagues from bayer. Damage limitation is the name of the game here. They talk of individual cases and studies that exonerates like to say. I would look at that is one case doesnt change 800 scientific studies it doesnt change 40 years or years and were thoroughly supportive of the product but roundup does not cause cancer. But just how many of those studies were actually independent german toxicologists are among those who question the figure cited by bayer. Find decent size when it quotes this figure buyer is referring to all of the Pesticide Action Network studies carried out in some relation to the effects of life to say. But the debate on whether or not to ban it centers on whether its carcinogenic and that is the subject of 12 studies. The law says a pesticide must be considered carcinogenic if its found to be such by 2 studies in the case of life a state there are 5 independent studies that confirm a significantly higher cancer incidence in mice if you can so theres more than enough evidence to meet the legal criteria. For voice for how. They are maintains that humans are never exposed to such high concentrations as animals and lab tests for a long time management said 3000 studies showed that life for c. Was safe. Then they revised that figure to 800. 00 today the company only refers to 107. 00 studies a cornerstone of its claims rests on the findings of the Agricultural Health study conducted in the u. S. It examined 45000 people who used life regularly over a period of 20 years and it found no link with non hodgkin lymphoma. But since the release of the monsanto papers bayer has had to defend itself in the face of compromising evidence. In an email dating from 2003 the companys leading toxicologist says. You cannot say that roundup is not a carcinogen we have not done the necessary testing on the formulation to make that statement. When monsantos chief toxicologist says we cant same round of does not cause cancer because we havent done the testing on it theres no multiple interpretations of that that is their own toxicologist saying yeah we actually havent tested the formulated product so we cant say it doesnt cause cancer because we dont know. What just they are make of monsantos evaluation today but no one from management or the Supervisory Board is willing to grant us an interview and they sent us a man with the title of president of Agricultural Affairs who tells us that to date hes had nothing to do with the monsanto merger. Distributed we based our evaluation on the documentation we received and on licensing documentation from around the world the ingredient has been licensed internationally for 40 years it has its merits and advantages and we didnt see a problem. With hunger and it will be missed. But monsanto evidently did in 2014 in sweden toxicologist raised another red flag. What we have long been concerned about has happened. Is on for an eye arc review. Why i concerned the International Agency for research on cancer is totally independent its verdict carries weight. Is part of the World Health Organization which in turn is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations australian professor lyn fritchey was on the panel of experts who study go i forsee ever since shes been targeted with Harsh Criticism from the agricultural industry. People can trust are iraqis is a institution that has been doing this for a long time there are transparent procedures as to what. The groups need to do the groups are the best people in the world in this area they have no conflicts of interest and they look at their literature that available publicly that spirit viewed that quality and come up with a decision i are classified life or so it was probably carcinogenic to humans and yet life was it has remained on the market. Lynne fritchey says monsantos response to the findings was highly derogatory in a wire that seems to imply that we did this on purpose that we were out to get more lifecycle monsanto and thats not the case we were there to follow i axed procedures to do weve just do a Fair Assessment of what the Scientific Evidence was and thats what we did and so its not its not right to say that weve this much something we looked at the evidence and we came up with a conclusion that we thought fitted the evidence based. Shortly after iraqs classification of life or states license was up for renewal at the us environmental Protection Agency. Just before its experts convened one outspoken glyphosate critic was excluded from her view. No i mean i was shocked and november you know but. The week or so after the president ial election i was informed that you know i was being removed from the gym. The Agro Chemical Industries Main lobby group claimed he was biased i agree with the International Agency for research on cancers review that concluded that there was evidence of evidence that could have a say was seeded with. Lymphoma in people exposed to life to say. Without their formal Panel Consultant Peter Infante the e. P. A. Renewed life a states license despite negative classification which bayer continues to dispute. Theres going to be a mischaracterization of remarkable tool that needs to stay in farm hands it was going to be dispersed in a fashion that was inappropriate and were preparing to make sure the public understand understands the safety of clive to say i think theyre extremely valid reasons to do that. Yeah i. Do. With their marriage to monsanto managers at bayers headquarters and leave a commission didnt just acquire roundup and its estimated annual sales of some 3500000000 euros they also adopted monsantos defense of the main ingredient. The isnt enough before and as we remain convinced that glyphosate is a safe product based on all this information the board of management consider the liability risk in connection with life the fate to be low. At the same time were also aware of the tremendous importance of life estate for the global food supply but. Bayer has battled fierce criticism from environmentalists but its deal with monsanto has also been denounced in german boardrooms like here in frankfurt at the Asset Management group us its main shareholder is a bank. Yeah im susie i can void they wanted it too badly and if you invest a lot of time on something this deal was more than 2 years in the making then theres often a tendency to say weve spent so much time and money so even if its all not perfect now we have to go ahead with it and source it. Christiane speaks for many bayer shareholders. One hunt of the acts and the other the shareholders werent given enough information yet and above all they werent consulted on whether they approved of such a change to the company. Plans for. This after all shifted the Company Focus from pharmaceuticals to Agro Chemicals and the shareholders should have had a say in that transformations its by no means clear whether that was legal or not. Do you do you financial man mr obama on thought he could transplant buyers good reputation over to monsanto by covering up its name with buyers but it wasnt that easy and now unfortunately monsanto has arrived in europe and germany. They are stock price and image have been weighed down by the negative Media Coverage in the us but its head office insists thats not cutting business. Us all suppose look we can all read about whats happening out there but i can tell you that in house we know business is doing very well the 1st quarter of 21000 went very well naturally the stock price isnt cause for celebration and that is primarily driven by the uncertainties arising from the legal disputes were facing in the us. And d. V. R. In was of course we were aware that there was a problem with monsanto as reputation and image. We knew them well as our competitor but we also felt that we could handle that via to justice and you can. Be here believe that buying monsanto would boost its Balance Sheets to creating synergies and saving costs would generate higher profits but nobody knows how much us legal costs and potential compensation payments will dent those profits there appears to be little appetite among bayer employees to voice open criticism a former top tier employee does consent to speak anonymously. Im afraid they havent measured the pulse of workers inside the company and that employees are afraid of speaking their minds instead they keep telling each other that the science is on our side were right and we need to grit our teeth because its just a matter of time until were proven right. But that wont Work Management has obviously underestimated just how severe the criticism is and how long its continued and just how badly it can shake the company to its core. Before its monsanto takeover bayer actually enjoyed a good reputation in the Agricultural Sector one of its leading divisions was its vegetable seed business under the brand in the netherlands. And here they are cultivated vegetables from high quality seeds without any help from the Controversial Technology of genetic engineering. Like cucumbers bigger than average and very tasty from seeds that fetch maximum market prices but amid beyers quest to acquire monsanto some 30 antitrust regulators worldwide spent 2 years examining the proposed union to see where it might reduce competition. And they gave beyers Vegetable Seeds production a thumbs down they are was forced to divest this profitable business it sold it to be a set for 7600000000 euros a bargain market analysts say. None cans can no longer carry that they are logo. Quite apart from the merger bayer still has problems in the pharmaceutical sector. In whats hollow the Works Council fears for 750. 00 jobs in the whole of germany 4 and a half 1000 jobs are at risk. Worldwide the figure is at 12000. 00. The head of the Works Council forces cautious criticism. Just to give him a shift to hear thoughts a hit really hurts the employees here to have to stand by and watch the gradual erosion of the companys good reputation for a voice within the this is their home so its important to let the dust settle and focus on the facts and ultimately this kind of interview only serves to reignite debate and stir up tempers and thats exactly what id like to avoid. No matter whom we ask employees say the merger is a hot topic in house but no one will go on the record. Buyer generally tends to view criticism as disloyalty it shuts the gates and withdraws from view but now would actually be the time to open up to listen and demonstrate a willingness to admit its very obvious mistakes to learn from them and allow the dialogue that says it seeks with opponents to actually take place. Dialogue on beyers terms in february 21000 its Communications Department invited the press minus their cameras to the bay arena home to premier League Soccer club Bayer Leverkusen with a view onto the chemically fertilized pitch the aim was to convince journalists about the advantages of life to see it as an introduction they were shown a 6 minute film. Sri lanka home of cylon t. V. Worldwide this tea is valued for its unique qualities sri lankas fertile soil and perfect climate offers the ideal conditions for the production of the finest aromas and good yields. So i toss and for the elaborately produced video takes us to sri lanka and according to the films narrative the exotic paradise came under serious threat 4 years ago the government banned the use of like a safe. To learn to trust in sri lanka suddenly wed sprung up everywhere. Finn didnt want all phone call to best of. Rice and corn year olds collapse. And father selection in india is in this sound bites from plantation managers scientists and politicians underscore the severity of the situation but then theres a turning point by citing a misguided decision based on dubious studies the government lives the life of. The film dismisses these studies as unscientific but a line often a put because one of these an internet site or. But now all will be well again life estate will soon make up for the massive crop failures sri lanka to say. The recent life to say it was banned in the 1st place is only mentioned in passing and not illustrated in the film. Over 2 decades a mysterious Chronic Kidney Disease has killed more than 20000 people in sri lanka and almost all of those affected worked on farms or plantations where they were exposed to large quantities of life. In belgium we meet 2 of the researchers whove been working to uncover the causes of this and demick that has affected tens of thousands of people in wall street long term. In. China as a doctor and toxicologist hes a right here and look at him from sri lanka to discuss the latest findings with the belgian kidney specialist mark. Although dobro is retired hes continued his research and it was through his work that the 2 physicians met. Early those named as chronic conditions so one should have no one no need to reach and many people die. Shouldnt people who have been 122 have the disease so on i would use the media still tissue indeed actually we did they did anybody milledgeville a study and we found it has a very high. Updating of the dr jaya somalia believes the source of the disease lies in the groundwater. In the affected areas it contains various heavy metals. In these bond with pesticides or herbicides such as. They form highly toxic compounds. Dr jaya some ana has found such toxins in Drinking Water the researchers believe these could well be causing kidney damage in farm workers its a hypothesis that sri lankas agricultural lobby has fought hard to refute. They in the. What campaign against the economics who did the studies. Think their leading. Scientists were looking for 110th he came to see learn trying he did he was a religious needs. And the 9 any association between the can we get it but they didnt. We dont really need any. Species but dr joy of somalia has the backing of professor dobro an internationally renowned kidney specialist. That their findings correspond to studies in india and Central America where Agricultural Workers have been afflicted by a very similar epidemic. Well we are both different it just but surely sin and you know the 2nd and im a specialist in may for look sick effects so i met him in the congress in south africa he was a giving a lecture and i said this is the bad i want to have a collaboration with because he was extremely different to find the cause of the disease because its killing so many people and nobody knows what this that hes in and everybody was telling that it was threats and the vision and never believed that. So we start the collaboration and thanks to these docs you call the g. B. To pay them havent you for the truck and he have to go we call it go to youth and we have that absolute evidence that this disease is a toxic effect but. We show dr jaya some honest bayer video on the life of state ban in sri lanka and the alleged damage it caused a farmers fields. Audited nines thats 4 then we asked beyers representatives about those claims that the ban really lead to crop losses and found yet. The glyphosate band left farmers with annual losses of 100000000 euros off the most and you also have you fact check the claims made about the effects of that life. Because we wouldnt make them if we hadnt known these civil life. Least laws in that the production. Was basically due to bad with it it was not due to play a scene. We then challenge the impartiality of the nerd allegedly independent expert in the video. Agriculture professor. Positive side of the story for him it serves as a lesson to the whole world when this is a joke i mean this person. He is a prophet in agriculture in the bit i think the university at the same packing he will also board to take off the Chemical Industries the company just the lead in industry in sri lanka and if this all agent all will see it and said they came because in truth there were found to be talking impartial viewer would conclude that this individual is an independent expert with objective judgment our Research Shows hes on the board of a major chemical distributor and we caught him for to us his mind i mean if it didnt make sense you wouldnt say it there are advantages to using life estate and thats the message this video is trying to get across to the good of the so you think this is an object of ploys so to speak this is these are the facts on what happened in sri lanka. I think need is for news to show new hope all in other places but not in sri lanka if we show this it could become a joke. Later we receive an email from beyers Corporate Communications department it underlines the accuracy of its sri lanka video and rejects any attempt to question the facts it contains in particular that defends the expert interviewed in the film as an absolute authority in his field. They are also emphasizes that weather conditions in sri lanka played no significant role in crop losses. The 2 scientists are stunned by this effort to invalidate their findings not least because the scope of their research is much broader than monsanto buyer and their best selling weed killer roundup. How do pesticides enter the human body and what harm can they cause how long can substances like life a safe be detected and how many people are affected. To answer these questions we had to friends. At the could the institute of sport scientists spend more than 18 months on a study investigating the life estate residues of hair samples from hundreds of people in use at all 6 we take strands less than 3 centimeters long that. Hair is considered a reliable bio monitoring tool to measure long term exposure to harmful substances. And so what. Weve found life is 8 residues in the hair of half the subjects which means that these people have been chronically contaminated with this substance. The study draws no conclusion as to whether this poses a Health Hazard but it does show how prevalent the substances in the environment. Musician. Paul the samples have come in from all over the world so we had people send us samples all the way from france and the United States as well as australia and japan. So we can say this is a very Representative Group in our endeavor to detect life est without doing. The research or stress that further studies are needed to evaluate the long term effects of life. And when it comes to end products like around the additives also need to be examined. The disease or chilton like to say is the key but not the only ingredient in round ups like. We cant decipher roundups exact formula through our research. Body. All we can say is that the end user which in most cases means the farmer is exposed to many more substances besides just life estate. The manufacturer keeps the formula under wraps leaving researchers to work in the dark as they try to determine the defects of roundup on human health. Back to bayer this is the companys substance one invest 5000000000 euros and research to find life a safe alternatives that made it clear this was not in response to verdicts coming out of the United States bayer says a global increase in weed resistance poses a threat to life for 6 efficiency it sees the need to find new approaches to weed management. Its a fact for almost 30 years not a single new active ingredient has been brought to market and. Life are safe meanwhile has generated increasing concern. In. Australia as the last stop on our glyphosate journey. Roundup is officially. Licensed for use here but the 1st lawsuits are pending. Here to life as it has been linked to disease. Ron and trolley snape have a farm until 350 kilometers south of sydney. They used to lie for say for years. That trolley felt gravely ill she used to complain or smelled of the ground up after we used it when were using on the farm we could actually use it for anything up to a week stroy using it the 5 boys control a controlling along of friends lawns so. Soon just just general fondue so we used that for each them socially. The couple viewed roundup as an indispensable weapon against weeds. And. No one ever told them of potential health risks the doctors diagnosis was a shock. So. They just said the last youve got lymphoma he said this is farmers lymphoma he said its common to pharmacy said too many farmers are overrepresented in the population doesnt fund the softly so well not just might not feel so dirty and guilty of done something dramatic the more laws that probably shorten who lost was just absolutely and its just absolutely appalling not i find that absolutely maybe because hal was wrong in not. Many of those affected are not willing to accept their fate without a fight. Australian farmers are well aware of the damages awarded by us juries and of the numerous studies and life of say that appear to confirm its Health Hazards. Theres an appeal to go through theres a paper that was published on the findings of a team that conducted a metal analysis of the link between non hodgkins lymphoma and going to see. Since the study was funded by monsanto and to my surprise it was never the last published reports. Because it concludes that there is a significant probability that life is safe causes non hodgkin lymphoma. With significant over shyness try it out sort. But this study to evidently offers room for interpretation by both sides of the classic debate which is presumably why monsanto didnt block its publication such contradictory accounts make it all the more difficult for those affected to know where to turn. At the very least victims say they should have been warmth of the potential side effects. And sign that the money last isnt actually my just policy i should have a modest goal in school so lets put on that packet is sure is a possibility slightly away lightly so the law can make an informed decision that im going to use general im not going to use it but should call it such as sons bloody hard. I want to wait for the season thats how i roll so i reach for around the extended control with the only ads like this are now history as each day sweets go round and they are not monsanto has to foot the bill. In a California Court this couple was awarded record damages of more than 2000000000. 00 they to maintain roundup gave them cancer another verdict baiters appealing. In the region or by western altering the lives of the American Economy and i want to make this into our new dish warning these are just jury verdicts we refer to the evaluations of regulators it was on april 30th that the e. P. A. Confirmed that the active ingredient life estate is safe. So here is canadian authorities did the same dish get my the German Federal institute for Risk Assessment also did the same and for us these are the conclusions that count on on which we base our operations oh its a donal phone we all hope the ark and how do you explain the fact that despite these decisions the courts of reach the opposite conclusion in are now in posing huge fines on monsanto or rather baier its who reason we are actual often fall turn this into a kind of i should scripts to lees are not legally binding vertex will know if you they are preliminary judgments that we are appealing again whens he was and then also you have to distinguish between these Court Proceedings and the licensing procedure that whats a which is an independent process year were not going to rely on the verdicts of juries which as we know can be very emotional and skillfully manipulated done zit him once you and i construed ridden sick a she could food to thats why we are appealing and and we know will be proven right by the Scientific Data in thought and chill view via mine an old to exits baier is betting on winning the next round but the attorneys for us plaintiffs expect further Court Rulings on their clients favor this is not the and of this litigation this is the beginning there are tens of thousands of people out there probably 203040000 people and i have continuously told day or in monsanto or comment after them we are not slowing down this is the beginning farm workers landscapers and how moaners personal Injury Lawyers are pulling out all the stops risk for non hodgkins lymphoma are other cancers of the july issue you theyve taken to the airwaves in a bid to roundup victims of round up will but baier remains optimistic by evidence in empress to dust in 10 years times you may or will be in an excellent position as we work our way through these lawsuits it will cost time it will cost nerves and money but it wont torpedo the goal of this acquisition we face enormous Food Production challenges and we need to view these challenges in a global context and feeding the worlds future population is an immense responsibility and that is where we will make our contribution dimentia 2 and they are on target when somebody thoughtlessly. 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