Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial

Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by bluGill on Saturday November 04, 2023 @08:39AM (#38140504)

North Dakota and Kansas are deserts or near desert. Germany gets 2 to 7 times more rain per year (depending on which part of Germany you look at)

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Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by ftrobro on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:30AM (#38140836)

That is probably a major reason for the higher yields in Germany, but the person I replied to claimed that yields aren't really higher in Europe than in the US.

According to data from the UN, in 2020 North America used 2.77 kg pesticiedes per hectare cropland and Europe used 1.69 kg/ha, and yet Europe has higher yields per hectare. So clearly Europe uses less pesticedes per produced amount of food.

https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RP

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Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by cyberax on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:21AM (#38151335)

I'm sorry, I was a bit unclear. Instead of:

> They aren't, when corrected for the land area.

I should have said "for the geographical area". You need to compare yields in similar climates and soils.

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Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by ckrapu on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:41AM (#38140905)

A better comparison would be ND and Ukraine in terms of climate.

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Re:Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial by bluGill on Saturday November 04, 2023 @05:37PM (#38145397)

Maybe, but both are large enough and have enough regional variation that it isn't safe to compare like that. The worst regionsare much worse in ND, and the best much better in Ukraine.

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