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Monsanto makes Roundup weed killer. Monsanto is now owned by Bayer. Some 165,000 people have sued Bayer for life-threatening health damage. Bayer was just ordered to pay one Pennsylvania gardener $2.25 billion, who said he developed NH lymphoma cancer from exposure to the ingredient glyphosate. There are many more plaintiffs to go.
How can this business model be sustainable?
Bayer will appeal the judgment and not pay. Bayer will discontinue selling the herbicide to homeowners and small gardeners. Bayer will continue to sell to Big Agriculture. Future exposure to glyphosate will come from the food we eat. The origin of subsequent disease may be impossible to determine.
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
