Hester van Hensbergen

In​ 2018, the German company Bayer bought the US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not just its vast portfolio of seeds and pesticides, but also thousands of lawsuits alleging that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, causes cancer. Since it was patented in the 1970s, eight billion tonnes of Roundup have been sprayed on fields around the world. It’s the main...