Agriculture your username 3 hours ago In a Ninth Circuit brief filed on Wednesday, the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG), Monsanto, and other groups and companies argued that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides, should not be considered a carcinogen according to California’s Proposition 65, which would require a notice that it could cause cancer to be disclosed on each glyphosate product. The defendant and appellant, Xavier Becerra, filed a brief in the matter in February, shortly before a brief was filed by various amicus curiae parties in favor of the defendant. (At the time of filing, Becerra served as California’s attorney general; after being appointed to the Biden Administration, Rob Bonta succeeded him in his position.) Becerra argued that because Californians were overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 65, and some studies have shown that glyphosate is likely carcinogenic, it should be included. Becerra argued against First Amendment claims from the plaintiffs by arguing that under Proposition 65 specific language for the warning is not required.