Carry_Okie do you know if this process has a name?
1) New patented product developed
2) Product #1 released to market
3) Urge government ban on previous product once the patent expires
4) Develop new product for future patent coverage in the interim
5) Product #2 released to market
6) Urge a new government ban on product #1 w/ expired patent
7) Develop new product for future patent coverage in the interim
8) Product #3 released to market
9) Urge a new government ban on product #2 w/ expired patent
Rinse and repeat
Yeah, it's the Treasury Bond Auctions.
Twenty points if you can figure out why I said that.
In fairness, glyphosate is on balance less toxic than prior weedkillers. As always seems to happen though, its commercial value leads to its drawbacks being ignored and critics getting gored so as to suppress disparaging research.