Companies involved in both the seed and pesticide sectors see a pipeline of pesticide-related class action lawsuits, MDLs and unlimited foundation-funded activist campaign onslaughts threatening their entire business.
Ten years ago, the logic was that the two sectors were complementary, and the merger of, for example, Dow and Dupont’s agricultural sciences businesses, achieved a synergy and scale that delivered a better service to farmers, researchers and society.
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There isn’t a strong rationale to separate such integrated sectors, so fear must be driving the reasoning.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for these industries to come together and unite to fix the broken system controlled by a litigation industry that is driving the narrative with an army of NGOs, foundations and journalists? Entire value chains are suffering and paying the costs as voracious “Predatort” lawyers enrich themselves.
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This coordinated approach would make much more sense than executives slicing off valuable chunks of their companies out of fear of the litigation industry wolves approaching the herd.
