Varney Begs For Pity On Poor Monsanto After Massive RoundUp Cancer Verdict
Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney on Tuesday lashed out at a California court after it awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who accused Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer of causing cancer.
In a rant on his Fox Business show, Varney insisted that the cancer victims had been awarded too much money.
“I’m going to call that a travesty of justice,” Varney explained. “Get your case in front of a sympathetic jury and who knows how much money you can walk away with. But is it justice?”“There’s more [Monsanto] lawsuits to come,” the host warned. “The German company which makes Roundup faces absolute ruin.”
According to Varney, environmental activists — who he refers to as “the greens” — dislike the way Roundup only works with genetically modified crops.
“It’s like blasphemy to them!” Varney griped. “See what’s happening here? A heavy dose of environmental politics. If the plaintiffs can pin a cancer verdict on Roundup, they can take down the world’s biggest gene modifier and that’s what they’re doing.”
Varney argued that “no company should be financially ruined because a politicized court rejects science.”
“What happened here is a travesty of justice,” he lamented. “Financial ruin for the maker of the world’s most popular weed killer. And the lawyers walk away with a ton of money. They haven’t made the world safer, they’ve made themselves rich.”