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user-inactivated  ·  3009 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Unilever in talks to buy Jessica Alba's Honest company for $1bn

Ugh. It's a shame I'm on mobile cause in really want to get into the gnitty gritty of this Monsanto thing. I hope you don't mind if I just throw out some random talking points.

My concern with Bayer and Monsanto is that if someone is willing to pay tens of billions of dollars in cash for another company, it must mean they know it'll give them a killer edge. That's worrying. Similarly, Bayer is a European company buying up an American company, which I'm sure would work out to be a hit to the US economy somehow in the long run. That's worrying too. If the deal does go through, that means two of the world's largest agricultural chemical companies, Bayer and Syngenta, will be European. Who's gonna be able to compete with them? DuPont? I don't think agricultural chemicals are a major priority for them.

Also, for the record, I'm not pro or anti GMO or Pesticide, nor am I pro or anti corporate agriculture. I'm on the fence on all of the subjects, teetering with the wind.