Oh, dear, you are dreadfully and terminally naive. I fear there is no hope
for you.

And please, don't presume to group me into that group of "most of us".
Given a choice, I'd rather be grouped into that group considered by you of
subhuman intelligence, which foolishly presumes big chemical companies of
considering their bottom lines first and foremost. I delight in the name
you will thus choose to label me with.

"Dave Gower" wrote in message
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wrote

1. is roundup safe?
2. probably not, it is made by Monsanto who does not put consumers
first,
monsanto,
you know, the people made PCBs since 1930

Most of us are not that stupid. We know that an issue from another time,
about another chemical, when the company was run by different managers,
faced different laws, was operating with different scientific knowledge,
cannot be used to answer a question about a garden chemical sold in 2003.

You bunch are obviously abysmally ignorant of how corporations work (and
of
course you would be if you relied on 60 Minutes for your information).
Monsanto and other primary producers do not normally sell directly to the
public. They sell to other companies; wholesalers, manufacturers,
exporters,
processors. As such they are dealing with hard-nosed and often very savvy
purchasing managers and agents. Such professionals ask tough and precise
scientific questions about the safety and other characteristics of the
materials they purchase. This is especially true of wholesalers, whose
employers directly face legal consequences for selling harmful substances.

Another elementary bit of information. Companies cannot "lie", or indeed
make utterances of any type. Only people can do that. The fact that you
anthropomorphise an abstract legal entity in such a way shows how
infantile
your delusions are. But even using your words, any company that "lied" to
professional purchasers would be dead in a year.