As Bayer Ditches Monsanto's Toxic Name in Merger, Green Groups Say There's No Erasing Its 'Toxic Legacy'

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'This merger will create the world's biggest and most powerful agribusiness corporation, which will try to force its genetically modified seeds and toxic pesticides into our food and countryside.'

from President Donald Trump's Justice Department last week--will tighten the stranglehold a few powerful corporations have on the global agriculture market, endangering people and the planet.

"This merger will create the world's biggest and most powerful agribusiness corporation, which will try to force its genetically modified seeds and toxic pesticides into our food and countryside," Bebbon Monday. "The coming together of these two is a marriage made in hell--bad for farmers, bad for consumers and bad for our countryside."

After Bayer's $62.5 billion purchase of Monsanto is complete, the company will be named simply "Bayer."Monsanto may soon be dead in name, but its "

 

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