Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below is a column from lawyer Steve Milloy, where he argues that glyphosate is an essential herbicide in global agriculture and challenges scientific studies suggesting it to be cancer-causing. You can find a counterpoint here, where Farm Action Co-Founder Angela Huffman argues against legal immunity for companies that produce pesticides and highlights health risks that have been linked to the herbicide.

The weed killer Roundup was recently at the Supreme Court, pitting trial lawyers against Bayer, the manufacturer of the widely used herbicide. The issue was whether congressionally mandated federal regulation of a pesticide pre-empts holding a company liable under state law for failure to warn about cancer risk.

The case puts the cart before the horse. What exactly is the cancer risk? (RELATED: ANGELA HUFFMAN: Pesticide Giants Want Special Swamp Protections. Farmers Want Their Rights.)

Used since the mid-1970s, Roundup, and its active ingredient glyphosate, has become the most widely used herbicide globally and domestically. While it is commonly used in residential and commercial settings to control weeds, the vast majority of Roundup is used to grow row crops like corn, soybeans and cotton.

Radical green........

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