Monsanto's MEGA-merger

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Published on Monday, 23 May 2016 07:45
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Hi A,

A few days ago we sent you the email below asking you to chip in to help stop the merger between Monsanto and Bayer. We think this is an issue you really care about, and a donation from you today will make a huge difference in the fight to save the bees and secure the future of our food supply.

Thousands of people have already donated to help us reach our goal. Are you able to join them?

Donate now

Thank you,

Anne and the team at SumOfUs

Bayer just confirmed our worst fears: it’s going to buy Monsanto, making it the world's largest seed AND pesticide company. We’ve got to move quickly to stop this nightmare deal.

Will you chip in to help stop this mega merger from hell?

Donate now

A,

Breaking news: We just found out that Bayer is definitely moving forward on its plans to buy Monsanto.

If Bayer succeeds, we are facing a giant, international mega-corporation with total control over nearly everything we eat: the biggest seed company and pesticide company all rolled into one.

This would spell disaster for our bees and vulnerable farmers. It'll usher in a new era of sterile crops soaked in cancer-causing pesticides.

That's why we need your help to stop the deal today.

Yes, I'll chip in to stop the Monsanto Bayer mega-merger.

If the deal is successful, this mega corporation will completely dominate the agricultural market, giving it almost total control of the most important aspects of our food supply.

And at the centre of Bayer and Monsanto's corporate agribusiness model is the indiscriminate, widespread use of pesticides linked to the massive global bee die-off.

That is why we need to stop this deal from happening right now.

Here are some of the things we could do -- but only if you can donate today:

  • initiate anti-trust lawsuits in the European Union and in the United States
  • work with shareholders of Bayer to rally big investors who are concerned about Monsanto’s bad reputation in the agricultural sector
  • mobilise citizens in Bayer’s home country Germany, where political leaders are already under massive pressure because of our campaign to ban Monsanto’s glyphosate in Europe

But we can only make this happen with your help. Can you chip in to stop this mega-merger?

Yes, I'll chip in to stop the Monsanto Bayer mega-merger.

Together, we were able to help stop the Syngenta-Monsanto merger last year because we showed that a corporation that big would have monopolistic power over farmers and the entire agriculture industry.

This new merger being discussed right now could be even worse.

Once a merger like this goes through, it's often impossible to undo the damage -- we need to act now to nip this merger in the bud.

Monsanto is giving us a taste of what it does when it doesn’t get its way. Right now in Argentina, it’s withholding new soybean seed technology from farmers -- the country’s biggest cash crop -- because it doesn’t want oversight from the Argentinian government.

It’s likely that this giant new mega-company will use its size to “influence” more governments and people with their shady tactics. Let's make sure they don't get away with that.

Yes, I'll chip in to stop the Monsanto Bayer mega-merger.

Thanks for all you do,
Paul, Jon and the team at SumOfUs


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More Information:

Bayer makes move for Monsanto in global agrichemicals shakeout, Reuters, 19 May 2016



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