Conservatively Speaking : J&J Enters $9 BILLION Baby Cancer Settlement

This is gonna make you sick, at least if you have ever had babies….and ever used Baby Powder on them from J&J.

According to new reports, it was alleged that the Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder caused cancer (how nice) and now the company is proposing paying out $8.9 BILLION to settle those claims.

We should be clear a settlement is not an admission of guilt or liability but it sure doesn’t look good!

Watch this short clip:

From the NY Times:

From Axios:

Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it’s offering up to $8.9 billion to resolve lawsuits accusing the company of selling baby powder that caused cancer — an allegation that J&J has repeatedly denied.
Why it matters: J&J faces tens of thousands of lawsuits from people and their survivors related to the company’s talc-based powder.
Driving the news: J&J disclosed the offer Tuesday in connection with its decision to re-file its subsidiary LTL Management in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in January dismissed the original Chapter 11 petition made by LTL, the subsidiary J&J created for the purpose of housing its talc liabilities and filing for bankruptcy.
Details: The $8.9 billion in payments to alleged victims would be paid over 25 years “to resolve all the current and future talc claims,” J&J said in a statement.
The company, which originally offered $2 billion, said it “has secured commitments from over 60,000 current claimants” to support the deal.
J&J noted that it is not admitting wrongdoing — but fighting the cases “would take decades and impose significant costs” with “most claimants never receiving any compensation,” said J&J’s worldwide vice president of litigation, Erik Haas.
What they’re saying: Law firms representing what they described as a majority of the victims released a statement saying their clients are supporting the proposed deal.
“This settlement will provide expeditious, substantial and fair compensation to claimants who cannot afford to wait any longer for a resolution,” the victims’ representatives said Tuesday in a statement.

Makes me absolutely sick to think parents had no idea.

What is wrong with these companies???

Keep reading, I have a very important announcement for you below on what YOU can do to keep you and your family and your kids safe! So important!

WARNING: Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead Found In Major Brand Name Spices!

Heads up folks!

This is a major consumer products alert…

Do you love to cook with spices?

Of course, who doesn’t?

Variety is the spice of life, and spices are the, uhhhh, spice of cooking!

But what happens when you reach for the Onion Powder or the Oregano, and along with those you get a heavy dose of Arsenic?

Arsenic would otherwise be known as literal “rat poison”.

Or Cadmium, which is a heavy metal.

Or Lead!

You know how we can no longer use lead-based-paint or leaded gasoline because of how toxic it is to humans?

What if the big companies had been putting it in your spices all along and you didn’t even know?

What if one of the reasons you constantly feel tired, slow and unmotivated is because you’re slowly being poisoned by what you eat?

It’s a Red Alert 🚨 situation, and I’m here to not only give you the bad news but also to give you a solution!

I never like to leave you with only the bad news, so keep reading and I’ll give you the solution to fix this for yourself and your family.

Check this out:

Literally poisoning Americans:

Maybe you’re not just tired, maybe you’re being slowly poisoned like that one episode of Dateline I saw where the woman poisoned her husband by feeding him small doses of antifreeze each day for a whole year.

Anyone else see that episode?

Except the wife is played by the Big Consumer Goods Companies that hate you and you’re the dying husband.

Sorry folks, I’m not making this stuff up, I’m just reporting the news.

According to this report, OVER ONE-THIRD of 126 large big-brand products tested had EXCESSIVE heavy metal levels:

FOUR Lawsuits have been filed already:

From Popular Mechanics:

In new research, Consumer Reports tested a total of 126 products from stores like Walmart and Trader Joe’s and found that 40 “had high enough levels of arsenic, lead, and cadmium combined, on average, to pose a health concern for children when regularly consumed in typical serving sizes.” Beyond big-brand names like McCormick and private labels, the offenders also include spices and herbs from the beloved Wauwatosa, Wisconsin-based brand Penzeys.
It’s important to note that there is no safe amount of lead, especially for children. That’s because our bodies don’t have a way to digest heavy metals, so they can easily accumulate in the body, physically interfering with other processes. (Remember when Entourage’s Jeremy Piven blamed a public outburst on mercury poisoning because he’d been subsisting on only sushi?)
“In children, [lead] can affect brain development, increasing the risk for behavioral problems and lower IQ,” Consumer Reports explains in the report, published last month. “In adults, it can contribute to central nervous system problems, reproductive problems, and hypertension, and can damage kidney and immune function.”
Lead in foodstuffs is usually tested through a standard protocol laid out by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), known colloquially as “EAM 4.7.” EAM stands for Elemental Analysis Manual for Food and Related Products. “This resource serves as a reference, for analysts at the FDA and around the world, providing not only general analytical information and procedures and detailed laboratory methods, but also helpful notes from analysts’ experiences using these methods,” the FDA explains online. In this testing, an acid chemically “digests” foods before they’re fed through a mass spectrometer machine that identifies the chemical signatures of different elements.
Which Herbs and Spices Contained High Levels of Lead?
Consumer Reports tested a total of 126 products across 38 brands, using two or three samples for each product. They ranked products from least to most concerning with the following system: no concern, some concern, moderate concern, and high concern. Here are the products that ranked as moderate or high concern:
La Flor Ground Oregano
La Flor Ground Turmeric
Happy Belly (Amazon) Ground Thyme
Spice Islands Sweet Basil
Tone’s Ground Thyme

And from Consumer Reports:

Roughly one-third of the tested products, 40 in total, had high enough levels of arsenic, lead, and cadmium combined, on average, to pose a health concern for children when regularly consumed in typical serving sizes. Most raised concern for adults, too.
For two herbs, thyme and oregano, all the products we tested had levels that CR experts say are concerning.
In 31 products, levels of lead were so high that they exceeded the maximum amount anyone should have in a day, according to CR’s experts.
When people think about heavy metals in their diet it’s probably the lead in their drinking water. But our tests show that dried herbs and spices can be a surprising, and worrisome, source.
Also troubling: There was no single predictor of which products contained higher levels of heavy metals—for example, brand name didn’t matter, and neither did “organic” or “packed in USA” claims.

Now, as I promised….let’s talk solutions.

I NEVER leave you with just the problem.

You know I’ve got the solution!

In fact, this is EXACTLY why I started my new Mission back in February.

The new mission is simply this: to help build out the Parallel-Economy.

Because here’s what I realized…

You THINK you have a choice between all these companies listed below in the circle, but what most people don’t realize is they’re all owned by only 11 companies.

11.

Interesting number.

Will probably be even less than that in the future when these merge even further.