{"id":156096,"date":"2015-06-02T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=156096"},"modified":"2015-06-02T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:49:47","slug":"monsanto-bids-to-take-over-european-agrichemical-giant-syngenta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/monsanto-bids-to-take-over-european-agrichemical-giant-syngenta\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto Bids to Take Over European Agrichemical Giant Syngenta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monsanto recently made a bid to take over European agrichemical giant Syngenta, the world\u2019s largest pesticide producer. The $45 billion bid was rejected, but there\u2019s still a chance for a merger between these two chemical technology giants.<\/p>\n<p>Monsanto is reportedly considering raising the offer, and as noted by Mother Jones,<sup><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2015\/05\/26\/glyphosate-pesticide-exposure.aspx?#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">1<\/a><\/sup> \u201ccombined, the two companies would form a singular agribusiness behemoth, a company that controls a third of both the globe&#8217;s seed and pesticides markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Bloomberg,<sup><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2015\/05\/26\/glyphosate-pesticide-exposure.aspx?#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">2<\/a><\/sup> the possibility of Monsanto taking over Syngenta raises a number of concerns; a top one being loss of crop diversity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c&#8230;[A] larger company would eventually mean fewer varieties of seeds available to farmers, say opponents such as [science policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, Bill] Freese.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another is that the combined company could spur increased use of herbicides by combining Syngenta\u2019s stable of weed killers with Monsanto\u2019s marketing heft and crop development expertise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Two really big seed companies becoming one big seed company means even less choice for farmers,\u2019 said Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch, a policy group in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018From a public health and environmental perspective this is a complete disaster,\u2019 said Bill Freese&#8230; \u2018The more I look at this, the more it worries me and the more it needs to be opposed.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-139633\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/monsanto-skull1.jpg\" alt=\"monsanto-skull\" width=\"568\" height=\"454\" \/>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2015\/05\/26\/glyphosate-pesticide-exposure.aspx\">Monsanto Bids to Take Over European Agrichemical Giant Syngenta<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsanto recently made a bid to take over European agrichemical giant Syngenta, the world\u2019s largest pesticide producer. The $45 billion bid was rejected, but there\u2019s still a chance for a merger between these two chemical technology giants. Monsanto is reportedly considering raising the offer, and as noted by Mother Jones,1 \u201ccombined, the two companies would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-156096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}