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ST. LOUIS \u2014 The National Black Farmers Association filed on Wednesday a federal lawsuit to block Creve Coeur-based agribusiness giant Monsanto and its German parent company, Bayer, from selling the weedkiller Roundup.<\/p>\n

The suit alleges that Black farmers across the country have been forced to use Roundup-resistant seeds and Roundup in increasingly heavier applications, and that Monsanto failed to inform the farmers of the weedkiller\u2019s risks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cycle can only be broken by removing the product from the market,\u201d Chris Schnieders, a partner at Napoli & Shkolnik in Kansas City and one of the attorneys who filed suit, said at a Wednesday press conference.<\/p>\n

In June, Bayer agreed to pay more than $10 billion<\/a> to settle tens of thousands of claims that Roundup causes cancer, but wouldn\u2019t agree to stop selling the product, or add warning labels.<\/p>\n

Bayer said Wednesday\u2019s suit is brought by two firms that refused to settle. \u201cPeople should see this action for what it is \u2014 an attempt by plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers to use media and more litigation to further their own financial interests,\u201d the company said in a statement sent by deputy communications director Susan Luke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Black Farmers Association filed on Wednesday a federal lawsuit to block Creve Coeur-based agribusiness giant Monsanto and its German parent company, Bayer, from selling the weedkiller Roundup.<\/p>\n

The suit alleges that Black farmers across the country have been forced to use Roundup-resistant seeds and Roundup in increasingly heavier applications, and that Monsanto failed to inform the farmers of the weedkiller\u2019s risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[7],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBlack Farmers File Suit Against Monsanto Seeking to Block Sale of Roundup - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/black-farmers-file-suit-against-monsanto-seeking-block-sale-roundup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Farmers File Suit Against Monsanto Seeking to Block Sale of Roundup - 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