Monsanto Bayer: Two Destructive Corporate Conglomerates Become One

Monsanto Bayer: Two Destructive Corporate Conglomerates Become One

Big AG tech giants Monsanto – maker of Agent Orange, genetically modified seeds, weed whacking chemicals – and Bayer – famed for manufacturing poison gas forNazi concentration camp use, heroin, baby aspirin, and systemic pesticides – are merging, much to the horror of food security advocates, consumers, and non-zombies worldwide. CNN Money declared the Monsanto Bayer merger “the year’s…

Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn for the Worse

Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn for the Worse

News broke this week that Monsanto accepted a $66 billion takeover bid from Bayer. The new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and pesticides. Bayer’s crop chemicals business is the world’s second largest after Syngenta, and Monsanto is the leading commercial seeds business. Monsanto held a 26 per cent market…