{"id":15373,"date":"2018-06-15T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/?p=15373"},"modified":"2018-06-15T08:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:35:24","slug":"monsanto-is-no-more-its-name-will-disappear-but-not-its-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2018\/06\/monsanto-is-no-more-its-name-will-disappear-but-not-its-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto Is No More: Its Name Will Disappear, But Not Its Products!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>NEWS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Bayer \u2013 a former member of the infamous IG Farben Cartel \u2013 has completed its $63 billion purchase of Monsanto, a company best known for manufacturing genetically modified crops and the weed killer Roundup. In a simultaneous move, as the purchase was completed Bayer <a href=\"https:\/\/media.bayer.com\/baynews\/baynews.nsf\/id\/Bayer-plans-closing-of-Monsanto-acquisition-on-June-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that the controversial Monsanto company name would be scrapped.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>COMMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the Bayer-Monsanto tie-up has been strongly criticized by health campaigners, farming groups, environmentalists, and the general public alike \u2013 all of whom worry it will create a GMO and pesticides monster that will dominate the global food supply. Coming at a time when there is growing worldwide interest in vitamin-rich food produced naturally, locally, and in harmony with the environment, the $63 billion deal has been widely criticized as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/420040-monsanto-bayer-eu-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a marriage made in hell<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, however, in a move seen by some as being just as controversial as the purchase of Monsanto itself, Bayer has nominated chemical company BASF, one of its former IG Farben partners, as the buyer for various business assets it will be selling to supposedly ensure the Monsanto tie-up doesn\u2019t reduce competition.<\/p>\n<p>To read about the dark history of Bayer and BASF, and access records from the postwar Nuremberg Trial in which executives of these two companies were tried for war crimes and found guilty of plunder, exploitation, slavery and mass murder, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit-over-life.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Profit Over Life<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<a class=\"button  button_size_2 button_js\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/food\/healthy-eating\/blogs\/monsanto-name-disappear-products-still-around-bayer\" target=\"_blank\"    ><span class=\"button_label\">Read article on the Mother Nature Network website<\/span><\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS Bayer \u2013 a former member of the infamous IG Farben Cartel \u2013 has completed its $63 billion purchase of Monsanto, a company best known for<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[122],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Monsanto Is No More: Its Name Will Disappear, But Not Its Products! 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