RIP Monsanto: The Agriculture Giant Americans Loved to Hate

German pharmaceutical company Bayer has begun acquiring the company for more than two years and the $ 66 billion deal ends in the end this week. On Monday, Bayry announced that it received all the regulatory approvals it needed to purchase Monsanto, and they withdrew from the "most certainly most merciful company on earth" 117 years ago .

"Bayer is still a company name, Monsanto is no longer a company name, the acquired product will retain its brand name and will become part of the Bayer product portfolio," the statement said.

Since they are accepted by customers like Monsanto, acquirers usually do not change the name of the company they buy, but in this case it may be the best choice. That's why

Like the name "Monsanto", that critic is most familiar to its clients. Established in 1901, Monsanto is a chemical company and is at the center of the biggest controversy from the twentieth century to the 21st century. Orange, weaponized during the Vietnam era, demonized, was manufactured under the name Monsanto. The company is also one of the companies manufacturing DDT, which is currently prohibited pesticide. In recent years, its name has become synonymous with genetically modified organisms (GMO), and it is a goal to protest against most of those protest activities.

For all anger Monsanto received from its critics, its loyal customers are not necessarily happy. In 2008, the company promised to achieve carbon neutral by 2021. Some of the customers said that it is giving governments and activists even aware of climate change and even partial recognition of humanity.

From the point of publicity, removing Monsanto will make things easier. But by having Monsanto sleep, Bayer may not be enough. Monsanto will be a thing of the past, but some of its brand names will be as attractive as the parent company and will be part of Bayer 's portfolio. For example, the insecticide Roundup is probably the most famous insecticide among non experts. In 2017, California listed its active ingredient glyphosate as a chemical known to cause cancer. In the second half of that year, the European Parliament decided to pass a non-binding resolution to ban agricultural chemicals by 2022, but this chemical was later approved for a new license for 5 years It was.

We planted genetically modified seeds at Monsanto Laboratories, soaked in German chemical giant Bayer (Monsanto is under merger) from a bee (a disabled person in the European Union) in neon. Seeds are then shipped to an American farm or shipped to South America via a huge ocean cargo ship and Monsanto's petroleum herbicide RoundUp. Grains are loaded on a truck and transported to a port loaded on a container ship before being transferred to a large greenhouse gas extraction unit that uses cheese as a hazardous by-product of gasoline to crush the crop. Soy and corn flour containing hexane and RoundUp are brought to the farm to keep 5,000 to 10,000 cattle for fattening while byproduct oil is sold to the junk food industry for biscuits, crackers, candies Yes. Imagine the toxins produced by these processes combining carbon footprints.

Monsanto has become one of the major chemical giants of the 20th century, but today it focuses on agriculture. The company statement said that: "At Monsanto, farmers around the world are making greater success, producing more healthy food, making better feeds, making more fibers, reducing innovation and technology on agricultural environment Critics criticized Monsanto for damaging local farmers and public health through the bullying of large companies The latest issue of Vanity Fair includes criticism from seed patents to milk cartons Up to the warning label, there is a long article explaining some of Monsanto's controversial business practices, which is called "Monsanto's Fear".

In public psychology, the term GMO is synonymous with the tragedy of Monsanto and an agricultural company. Although the corporate behavior of large companies can be questioned and questioned, the majority of the reasons Monsanto is disliked are based on myths (for example, companies are not suing farmers with unintended pollution Hmm). Scott Patrick, Vice President of Global Strategy at Monsanto, said Monsanto only "sort out" Intertek's paper, he said there was no "substantial" thing to change team members' conclusions. "Selection of words" in "declaration of interest" is not ideal, he said, "It has not changed science."