Last week, two of the world’s largest farm suppliers – Bayer, a German drug and crop chemical maker with a horrible, deadly past, and Monsanto (the evil purveyor of GMO seeds) announced a $66 billion mega-merger that may reshape the world’s food supply.

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“This deal is a disturbing step in the corporate consolidation of our global food supply. Monsanto owns approximately a quarter of the world’s seed supply and Bayer is one of the world’s top 10 chemical companies,” Megan Westgate, director of the Non-GMO Project, a non-profit group aimed at getting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) labelled,” reports FOX Business.

GMOs haven’t ceased to be a controversial topic- for decades- and currently, make up 75% of our conventional processed foods in the U.S. even though Consumer Reports says that 72% of Americans try to avoid buying them when they shop. That’s right, in just over 2 decades it’s over 75%, yet another reason not to eat from the center aisles of a conventional grocery store!

So, as people become more health conscious when they do go to the store, major food corps have had to pay attention and change with consumer demand. Just last year, Campbell’s Soup, General Mills, Mars, Kellogg’s, and ConAgra Foods, all announced they will label GMOs on their products. Take THAT GMO lobby!

Obviously, given this potential merger, food activists, doctors and scientists around the world are worried that this merger could result in even more GMO crops in the over-saturated U.S. market AND in countries that have banned or partially banned the seeds; there are at least 26 countries, including Russia, Italy, Poland, Greece, France, Hungary and Australia that have bans in place! Just as more countries work to ban and or label their foods- our officials dig in.

More from the article:

“This new mega corporation could now own one-fourth of the combined global market for seeds and pesticides. When a company verges this close to a monopoly of our food system, alarm bells should ring out all around the world,” says filmmaker Daryl Wein, who directed “Consumed,” a dramatic thriller that explores the controversial world of genetically modified food.”

Not surprisingly, CEO Werner Baumann of Bayer sees this deal as “extremely beneficial to not only shareholders but farmers too” (experts disagree it’s beneficial to the farmers). And Monsanto CEO, Hugh Grant- himself a gem of unethical businessmen, reiterated saying, “I have been talking about this for years—that unlocking the innovation and bringing chemistry, seeds, biotechnology and data science together (thus destroying our food). I think that is a big piece for the future of this industry.”

But Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, a scientist and CEO of CytoSolve, Inc. (a biotech company who develop therapeutics, nutraceuticals, and functional foods) believes this is a way for Monsanto to hide under a more favorable brand.

From the article:

“It provides Monsanto an opportunity to hide within the cover of Bayer’s brand, known primarily to the public as the manufacturer of Aspirin — a far less dangerous brand equity than being known as creators of dangerous pesticides such as Round Up (Glyphosate) and untested GMOs,” Ayyadurai tells FOX Business. “I am not pro- or anti-GMO. However, our research shows that the current safety assessment standards for GMOs are non-existent.”

We recognize this deal as folly, just like we recognize GMOs for what they are- a danger to people, animals, and this planet.

Source: Fox Business