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In a brazen bid to shield itself from a tsunami of lawsuits over its toxic Roundup herbicide, Monsanto (acquired by Bayer Pharmaceutical) has unleashed a multi-state lobbying blitz to secure immunity from liability, with Missouri as a key battleground. 

The agrochemical giant, reeling from over $8.68 billion in pre-reduction jury verdicts and $11 billion in settlements, is pushing state legislatures to pass bills that would block "failure-to-warn" claims tied to glyphosate, Roundup's cancer-linked ingredient. 

But their heavy-handed tactics have sparked fierce resistance, exposing the corporate underbelly of a company desperate to dodge accountability.

In Missouri, home to Bayer's North American Crop Science headquarters, the company ramped up its lobbyists from four to nine - or about 1.29 lobbyists for each of the seven Senators of the Missouri Senate Agriculture Committee - directly before introducing Senate Bill 14, and its companion House Bill 2763.

Both bills - nearly identical to those seen in each state where courts have awarded billions for harms - were aimed at shielding Monsanto-Bayer from lawsuits claiming Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...........more............