It rocked the entire agrochemical industry. Since that initial verdict most of the leading brands in agrochemicals took a massive hit.
The reason is….if glyphosate is becoming a problem chemical then almost NOTHING is safe in the agrochemical world. What’s next is likely Dicamba for herbicides and there are nionic insecticides that can cause issues. And another group of insecticides…the pyrethroids could also hit the courts.
Glyphosate is safer than all of those aforementioned chemicals. Glyphosate hitting the crosshairs really impacted everything. It is one of the safer mass produced pesticides ever made.
I worked for Bayer on the agrochemical side when all of this happened. The executive suite never thought the initial lawsuit had a chance. They paid more than 60 billion for Monsanto and knew these lawsuits were already filed. They got cocky and never actually thought a jury would lay the hammer.
I got a lot of thoughts on how all of this will shake out. It’s depressing.