Petition: "Toxic company wedding" Bayer - Monsanto stop!
Bayer buys Monsanto: The corporation will dominate world trade in seeds and pesticides - to the detriment of consumers, farmers and the environment. The merger (poisonous company wedding) brings genetically modified crops and even more poison to the fields. On April 5, the EU will decide whether to approve the acquisition. Action for Rainforests et al. are calling for a "no" vote.
The $66 billion deal will create the world's largest agrochemical and seed company, controlling more than a quarter of the market. Consumers, farmers and the environment will suffer under the Market concentration suffer in the hands of a few managers:
- Monsanto earns billions of dollars with genetically modified crops (GMO), especially in North America. Now Bayer will try to push through the controversial genetic engineering in Europe as well.
- Monsanto distributes the Glyphosate plant poisonwhich, according to the World Health Organization, is "probably carcinogenic" is. The fact that the EU has granted approval for the Gift extended by five years at the end of 2017is worth hard cash for the Group.
- Bayer's growing market power is leading to further industrialization of agriculture, which relies on genetic engineering, pesticides and monocultures. The future of ecological, resource-conserving agriculture is being blocked.
- Farmers will become even more dependent on the seeds and agrochemicals of fewer producers. These will offer fewer and fewer types of cereals, for example. The world's food supply will be dominated by an oligopoly based around Bayer. A world domination of a few over the fields and plates of all is threatening.
Never before has a German company spent more money to buy a company. Bayer will do everything it can to make the billion-euro takeover profitable - and exploit its market power.
Save the Rainforest has been fighting Monsanto, one of the world's most dangerous companies, for years. Bayer is also a target of protests. The chemical company earns handsomely from pesticides used for the mass mortality of bees be held responsible. Please also call on EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager to refuse to approve the merger. On April 5 it counts!
Text: Save the Rainforest e.V.
More info and background:
Antitrust experts warn against the planned merger of Bayer and Monsanto
The consumer protection organization SumOfUs has filed a complaint with the law firm specializing in corporate takeovers "The Konkurrenz Group" commissioned an expert opinion the results of which are now available. In it, Maurice E. Stucke and Allen P. Grunes, two former employees of the U.S. Antitrust Division, state that a merger between Bayer and Monsanto would violate the Clayton Act. This law was passed by Congress to prevent anticompetitive mergers. More than 500,000 SumOfUs members around the world have signed a petition opposing a possible Monsanto-Bayer merger. Go to Petition from SumOfUs
ARTE film documentary "Dead animals, sick people - due to glyphosate".
Background information on the role of IG Farben (Bayer) during the 2nd World War with IG Auschwitz
Controversial glyphosate: Federal government rewards syringes with subsidies (Kassensturz/SRF)
Monsanto: How toxic is Roundup to humans?
Glyphosate - Heated debate about the weed killer
European Citizens' Initiative: Ban glyphosate and protect people and the environment from toxic pesticides
Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office BLV on the subject of glyphosate
"When a cell tries to make proteins, it may turn to glyphosate instead of glycine to do so, resulting in a defective misfolded protein," said the Health researcher and pathologist Stephen Frantz. "What follows is medical chaos."
