How bad is Monsanto?
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- Published on Thursday, 30 June 2016 07:30
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Hey A, big news. I've just heard that the EU is pre-emptively launching an anti-trust investigation into the Bayer-Monsanto mega-merger. Other news outlets are also reporting that Bayer's shareholders don't want the deal. And to add to all of this, the dropping value of the Euro is making the deal a lot more expensive for Bayer.
Now is the best time for us to act -- while Bayer's CEO is feeling especially vulnerable.
Your donation will mean we can bring the farmers most affected by Monsanto to meet with him and stop the merger. Bayer needs to hear these stories -- the company is much more conscious of its public image than Monsanto, and won't want to be associated with Monsanto's business practices.
But just in case, we'll make sure we tell as many of Bayer's shareholders as possible about our meeting, too -- growing the internal opposition.
Can you chip in today and help stop the Bayer-Monsanto merger?
Donate nowThank you,
Paul and the team at SumOfUs
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More Information:
EU to open review of Bayer, Monsanto deal, MarketWatch, 29 June 2016
Is There Any Price at Which Bayer Investors Will Accept a Monsanto Buyout? (Hint: The Answer Is No), The Motley Fool, 23 June 2016
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Monsanto and Bayer are hell-bent on creating a toxic mega-merger that would control our entire food supply and financially ruin small farmers around the world. But Bayer's CEO has agreed to meet with us, so we want to bring affected farmers with us to help kill the deal. Will you chip in to stop this merger?
Donate nowA,
Want to know how horrible Monsanto really is? Ask a farmer.
Monsanto has sued hundreds of farmers for simply saving seeds from year to year, the way they have for millennia. Organic farmers are increasingly helpless to prevent contamination of their crops by Monsanto's GMOs.
And Monsanto has put so much financial pressure on farmers in India that it's resulted in a horrifying increase in suicides.
The proposed Monsanto-Bayer mega-merger will put farmers at an even bigger disadvantage against the Monsanto monopoly.
That's why we're raising money to fly as many farmers from around the world to join us in protesting the merger and calling on Bayer's CEO to pull out of the deal.
Will you chip in to help farmers stand up to Monsanto?
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We've been fighting to stop the Monsanto-Bayer megamerger for months -- and finally, we've had a major breakthrough: Bayer's CEO has agreed to meet with people who oppose the deal -- and that includes SumOfUs.
He knows that our campaign is having an impact on shareholders and could threaten the entire deal. Otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to meet with us at all.
But to really drive the message home and put pressure on Bayer to pull out, we want to bring the people who will be most affected by the deal with us: farmers from Latin America and India, who have seen the impact of Monsanto's monopolistic ways first-hand.
Combined with campaigners in Europe who are fighting against glyphosate -- the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup -- we'll have a team he can't ignore.Will you chip in so we can get everyone together to help convince Bayer's CEO to pull out of the deal?
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Chip in CA$182 now
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Thanks for all you do,
Paul and the team at SumOfUs
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More Information:
Here's How a Bayer-Monsanto Merger Affects Workers, Farmers, and Investors, Fortune, May 24, 2016
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