Bayer Eyes Roundup Exit as Cancer Legal Bill Nears $18 Billion

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The chemical that revolutionized farming over the last 50 years is in trouble.

Glyphosate, once vaunted for its ability to kill plants and spare animals, is under assault on both fronts. In the UK, weeds are for the first time refusing to die after being sprayed with the herbicide — a problem that’s long tormented American farmers, too. And thousands of former users in the US contend that the world’s most widely used weedkiller might actually be slowly killing them.

Earlier this year, a Georgia jury ...