Carey Gillam

Tractor spraying glyphosate

Bayer faces billion-dollar losses related to legal claims of deadly Roundup herbicide

Health & Medicine

Monsanto, makers of the widely used herbicide Roundup, faces claims of consumer deception, costing its new parent company, Bayer, more than $20 billion in lost market value.

Herbicide spreading

An FDA scientist finds traces of weed killer in many common foods

Environment
An employee at a Seattle co-op stocks produce near a sign supporting a 2013 ballot initiative in Washington state that would have required labeling of GMO foods. The initiative failed, with record amounts of money spent to defeat it.

GMO lobbying is a booming business as labeling laws increase

Business