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Over the past decade, Roundup brought Bayer 67,000 pending legal cases alleging it caused plaintiffs’ cancer. Bayer so far has set aside $16 billion for settlements. Bayer has had problems securing regulatory approval for a different herbicide, dicamba, which is effective at killing glyphosate-resistant weeds. Bayer separately petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in March seeking to limit legal claims against Roundup. The company argues that consumers shouldn’t be able to sue it under state law for failing to warn about potential cancer risks because the EPA has determined glyphosate doesn’t require a cancer warning. This begs questions, such as: What if Bayer ended Roundup? With all the liability, would anyone else want it? If dicamba is approved, would Round-up end anyhow, or just change its recipe? Are weeds smarter than chemists?
After 33 years in the business of beverage distribution across Iowa, Iowa Beverage Systems (IBEV) has announced that they have been acquired by KEG 1 Iowa, LLC.
Deals of the day
• Bad Dog Burgers include three 1/3-pound patties, six pieces of bacon, choice of cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion for $10.95 on Mondays. At Kathy’s East 14th Street Tavern (3418 East 14th St., Des Moines).
• Jethro's in Altoona and West Des Moines today offer taco flights, $5 margaritas and Mex mac and cheese for Cinco de Mayo.
• Trostel's Greenbriar (5810 Merle Hay Road, Johnston) is running a chef's special on mong chong, a Hawaiian whitefish. It is baked and served on rice covered with a Thai-style curry sauce, $36 through Wednesday.
• Angry Goldfish (2301 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines) has specials on chicken Parmesan and lasagna today, $11.50 with garlic bread and salad.
• Eastside Eddie’s (3517 E. 26th St., Des Moines) Monday special is a burger with domestic beer, soft drink or well drink for $10. Those are good, generously sized burgers.
• Centro (1003 Locust St., Des Moines) offers half-price pizza and Peronis on Monday.
• Who's on First (810 E. First St., Ankeny) has steak night on Monday, and it's an 8-ounce filet with salad, mashed potatoes and beans for $22.95
• Pelican Post (265 50th St., West Des Moines) has a special today on hot beef sandwiches, $10.95 until 4 p.m.
• Tito’s Lounge (3916 Urbandale Drive, Urbandale) offers all-you-can-eat wings Mondays.
• Monday brings prime rib specials to both Chicago Speakeasy (1520 Euclid Ave., Des Moines) and Christopher's (2816 Beaver Ave., Des Moines).
• Johnny's Hall of Fame (302 Court Ave., Des Moines) has $12 burger baskets on Mondays and Fridays.
• Urban Cellars (640 S. 50th St., West Des Moines) offers $60 wine dinners for two on Mondays including two entrees with soup or salad, a dessert and a bottle on wine.
• Club 2000 (422 Indianola Road, Des Moines) has a burger basket with fries deal Mondays for $9.
• Red Lobster's Monday special is lobster and shrimp scampi with a side for $20.
• Paula's (524 Elm St., Valley Junction) has a Monday special homemade tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwich for $12.50.
• Destination Grille (2491 E. First St., Grimes) has a Monday steak night special, sirloins and truffle fries for $18.
• Price Chopper delis offer two-piece, bone-in fried chicken dinners, with two sides and a roll, for $6 on Mondays.
• Fareway has deals this week on beef fajitas mix at $6.99/pound, sweet pepper coleslaw at $3.88/pound and chicken hindquarters at $1.38/pound through Saturday.
— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com | 
