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EU: Activist group slams Bayer and Monsanto merger talks

By  |  July 17, 2016

A highly anti-Bayer and Monsanto statement was issued by a spokesperson for SumOfUs, a European-based activist organization, that is extremely critical of the possibility of Bayer Ag and Monsanto merging.

The negative opinions and attitudes expressed appear to be more common than those in US agriculture might be aware. The statement is provided to give AgPro readers insight into the negative statements being issued that are quite often picked up by mass media as the general opinion of consumers.

The statement came from Anne Isakowitsch, a Berlin-based campaigner for SumOfUs. The organization claims it is an international consumer corporate watchdog. SumOfUs says it has collected 500,000 signatures of persons against the two companies merging. It is obvious from the statement that SumOfUs is as much anti-conventional farming as it is concerned about anti-trust enforcement.

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