Monsanto and Bayer May Merge, Creating a Company That Would Control Nearly a Third of the World's Seeds

The new mega-chemical/seed company would control 29 percent of the world’s seed market and 24 percent of the pesticide market. 

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The two multinationals that teamed up during the Vietnam War to poison millions of people with Agent Orange herbicide are looking to become one. 

German's Bayer has announced a bid to buy St. Louis, Mo.-based Monsanto in a deal that would expand Bayer's GMO and pesticide holdings and add drugs to Monsanto’s global portfolio. Monsanto has rejected the latest bid, but the two are still in talks.

If Monsanto, the most hated GMO company in the world, joins hands with Bayer, one of the most hated Big Pharma corporations on Earth (whose evil deeds date back to World War I and the Nazi era), the newly formed seed-pesticide-drug behemoth would have combined annual sales of $67 billion. That’s a staggering figure. But here’s another, even more alarming: The new mega-chemical/seed company would control 29 percent of the world’s seed market and 24 percent of the pesticide market.

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