Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 3/23/18


Approval of the mega deal in Europe comes in the wake of similar decisions in South Africa, Brazil and China. The last big hurdle for the deal is the U.S., where there is the extra challenge of weighing up the effects of the merger on the country’s genetically modified food market. A huge fear among environmentalists was that Bayer would no longer be motivated to find an alternative to the controversial pesticide glyphosate once it decided to acquire Monsanto. Glyphosate, which activists argue is a risk to human health and biodiversity, is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, one of the world’s blockbuster herbicides.

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