Today, Tuesday July 21, 2025, the Appropriations bill with the Bayer rider goes before the full Appropriations committee. Here amendments can be offered, and at least one will ask for section 453, the Bayer rider, to be removed.

There are 63 members of the Appropriations committee, 35 Republicans and 28 Democrats. To remove the Bayer liability shield we need at least 32 votes in favor of removal. Citizens have been calling their representatives and asking them to vote no.

However, a surprising number of Congressional offices have told their constituents that this rider is nothing like what they have been told. They claim it is not a liability shield at all. Well, I must ask, if it is not a de facto liability shield, then what exactly is it, and how is it intended to benefit the American people? Crickets.

It sounds like Bayer, or party leadership, planned to use the convoluted language of the rider (and the associated need to understand the extremely long FIFRA Act) to deny that the Bayer rider means what we know it means.

When even Bayer’s own website, and the CEO of Bayer told his shareholders that this was what Bayer would be seeking (a solution to its tort liability) it is the height of brazenness for Congressmembers to try and deny it. Clearly, they fear being caught voting for a measure that can only harm their constituents. They feel, or have been told, that it is safest to deny they knew what they were voting for. Don’t let this fool you! Put their feet to the fire if members’ offices try and tell you differently.

Here are the names and phone numbers of the members of the full Appropriations committee. Please call them right now and give them a piece of your mind!

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Bayer is no stranger to risk and controversy. During World War 2, as part of I.G. Farben’s network it ran its own concentration camp to produce war materials, admitting on its website to working 25,000 slave laborers to death.

https://www.malone.news/p/will-congress-give-the-pesticide?

 

I wasn’t aware that Farben/Bayer ran it’s own WWII concentration camp which fed labourers to the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers!

Essentially they are attempting to provide Bayer’s chemical products with a liability shield along the lines of the one already in place for vaccines.