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Wenonah Hauter – Three Massive Mergers—Millions for One Bank and a Disaster for Food, Water and Climate

You probably learned in high school that monopolies are bad for consumers; they eliminate the field of competition in the marketplace, leaving people with fewer options and higher prices. Mega-mergers in the food and energy markets are allowing a handful of corporations to dominate market sectors. Their market dominance means that when it comes to influencing public policy, politically powerful companies call the shots. As Elizabeth Warren said in a speech recently, competition is dying—and the accompanying consolidation ...

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24
OCT
2016

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Articles, Corporate Corruption

Banking in Switzerland, Bayer, BMO Capital Markets, ChemChina, Credit Suisse, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Enbridge, monsanto, Syngenta

PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY – VERDICT: MONSANTO AND POISON CARTEL GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PLANET AND HUMANITY

The Hague, 16 October 2016: Monsanto and the Poison Cartel are guilty of crimes against our planet and humanity. This is the verdict from the People’s Assembly organized in the Hague alongside the Monsanto Tribunal. The voices of the soil, of the seeds, of farmers, consumers, and of people from all over world converged and reverberated in a new unity across diversity. The poison making industry is destroying life on Earth, our health and our democracies. The Peoples assembly resolved ...

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19
OCT
2016

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Articles, GMO

Agrochemical, Bayer, ChemChina, CropLife International, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, European Commission, Genetically modified organism, monsanto, Syngenta

Katherine Paul – Billions against Bayer: Here we come!

Bayer and Monsanto finally agreed to say “I do” yesterday (September 14), striking a $66-billion deal that Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant tried to sell as a move to improve “the lives of growers and people around the world.”

Wall Street Journal reporter Jacob Bunge painted the news in a different light. Bunge implied that behind the Bayer-Monsanto buyout, a similar proposed merger between Dow and Dupont, and the recently approved ChemChina-Syngenta deal, runs the story of an industry in trouble.

“The dominance ...

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29
SEP
2016

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Articles, Politics

Alka-Seltzer, Bayer, ChemChina, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Genetically modified crops, Hugh Grant, monsanto, Syngenta, Werner Baumann

COLIN TODHUNTER – A System of Food Production for Human Need, Not Corporate Greed

There has been an adverse trend in the food and agriculture sector in recent times with the control of seeds and chemical inputs being consolidated through various proposed mergers. If these mergers go through, it would mean that three companies would dominate the commercial agricultural seeds and chemicals sector. Over the past couple of decades, there has already been a restriction of choice with the squeezing out of competitors, resulting in higher costs for farmers, ...

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27
SEP
2016

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Health, Politics

Agrium, Bayer, ChemChina, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Genetically modified organism, monsanto, Syngenta, United States, United States Department of Justice

John Vidal – Farming mega-mergers threaten food security, say campaigners

* Deals would put the majority of seeds, chemicals and GM traits in the hands of three companies, deepening poverty for small-scale farmers

When an Indian farmer plants his cotton crop, there’s at least a 75% chance the seeds have been been bought from a company owned by Monsanto. If a Latin American farmer sprays insecticide on her genetically engineered soya beans, the chemical is more than likely to have been provided by German chemical and drugs company Bayer or by ...

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27
SEP
2016

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Health, Politics

Agent Orange, Bayer, ChemChina, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Genetically modified maize, IG Farben, monsanto, Syngenta, United States

Six companies are about to merge into the biggest farm-business oligopoly in history

Big farms are about to get a lot bigger.

With six agricultural giants on the verge of merging into three separate companies, consumers and farmers are feeling uneasy about the global implications and how it might impact the food system.

Top executives from Bayer, Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, and Syngenta today (Sept. 20) testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, making a case for why federal regulators should approve the mega-mergers, which stand to fundamentally reorganize global agriculture. (Executives from ...

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26
SEP
2016

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Politics

Alka-Seltzer, Bayer, ChemChina, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Genetically modified organism, Hugh Grant, monsanto, Syngenta, United States Department of Justice

Nadia Prupis – Pesticide Companies’ Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees: Report

Agrochemical giants Syngenta and Bayer discovered in their own tests that their pesticides caused severe harm to bees, according to unpublished documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the environmental group Greenpeace.

The companies conducted the trials on products that used the controversial pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, which have long been linked to rapid bee decline. Neonics are also the world’s most commonly used pesticide.

According to their own studies, Syngenta’s thiamethoxam and Bayer’s ...

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23
SEP
2016

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Health, Politics

Agrochemical, Bayer, ChemChina, Chemical industry, DuPont, Europe, Germany, monsanto, Syngenta, United States

Colin Todhunter – Monsanto And Bayer: Why Food And Agriculture Just Took A Turn For The Worse

News broke this week that Monsanto accepted a $66 billion takeover bid from Bayer. The new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and pesticides. Bayer’s crop chemicals business is the world’s second largest after Syngenta, and Monsanto is the leading commercial seeds business.

Monsanto held a 26 per cent market share of all seeds sold in 2011. Bayer (mainly a pharmaceuticals company) sells 17 per cent of the world’s total agrochemicals and also ...

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22
SEP
2016

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Health, Politics

Agrium, Bayer, ChemChina, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Genetically modified organism, Germany, monsanto, New York, Syngenta

Nika Knight – Over 700,000 People Urge DOJ to Reject Biotech Mega-Mergers

Hundreds of thousands have signed petitions calling on the U.S. Department of Justice and elected officials to block three proposed mega-mergers of chemical and biotech behemoths: Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-Dupont, and ChemChina-Syngenta.

“Additional consolidation will increase prices and further limit choices for farmers, while allowing Monsanto and friends to continue pushing a model of agriculture that has given us superweeds, superbugs, and health-harming pesticides.”
—Marcia Ishii-Eiteman,
Pesticide Action Network

“The continuing consolidation of seed and pesticide companies ...

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21
SEP
2016

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Health, Politics

Activism, Barack Obama, Bayer, DuPont, Food & Water Watch, monsanto, subpoena, Syngenta, United States, United States Department of Justice

Prof. James Petras – Trade Wars and Food Wars: Obama and the Agribusiness Monopolies

The concentration and centralization of the agro-business multi-nationals advances with gigantic strides: Potash Corp and Agrium have combined into a $30 billion monopoly over the world fertilizer market. Dow Chemical and DuPont combine in a $130 billion dollar deal in the seed and agricultural chemicals sector. ChemChina prepares to takeover Syngenta in a $44 billion acquisition. Bayer is preparing to buy out Monsanto for $56 billion and further concentrate control over worldwide seed and chemical markets. A quarter of a ...

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21
SEP
2016

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Health, Politics

Agrium, Bayer, ChemChina, Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, Genetically modified organism, monsanto, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Syngenta

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