Monsanto Sues California Over Forced Herbicide Warning

Monsanto Co. and groups of farmers sued California officials to stop the state from forcing a cancer warning on the company’s herbicide glyphosate.

The world’s biggest seed company is the latest to challenge California’s uniquely stringent right-to-know law that’s been ridiculed by critics for the proliferation of warnings everywhere from gas stations to grocery stores -- and for lining the pockets of attorneys who sue and settle. Even a cup of coffee in California comes with a cancer warning.

Glyphosate doesn’t cause cancer and the state is violating Monsanto’s First Amendment rights by compelling it to include such a warning, ...