Hello. Today I'm happy to announce that this Thursday, Baya will complete the acquisition of Monsanto.

This is good news for several reasons.

It's first of all good news for our customers, farmers around the world, no matter what type of If you had told someone two decades ago that by 2018 the company that commercialized chemical

warfare and the company that commercialized Agent Orange were going to team up to control a quarter of the world's food supply,

chances are you would have been labeled a loonie.

Unless your name was Robert P. Shapiro.

He was CEO of Monsanto from 1995 to 2000,

and in 1999 he told Business Week that the company's goal was to wed

three of the largest industries in the world,

agriculture, food, and health that now operate as separate businesses,

but there are a set of changes that will lead to their integration.

With this month's announcement that Bayer had completed its 63 billion dollar acquisition

of Monsanto, it is hard to deny that Shapiro's vision has been realized.

Too bad for all of us, that vision is a nightmare.

Because, contrary to the feel-good corporate propaganda

being churned out by the company's PR department. Propaganda

that would have you believe that this merger will be good for the environment, for farmers,

for ending global hunger, and, incidentally, for lining the pockets of shareholders,

these two corporate giants are in fact committed to the consolidation and transformation of the world's food supply in the hands of the genetic engineers.

Monsanto and Bayer are a match made in hell.

This is the corporate report.

It is hardly surprising that the first thing Bayer did after completing their takeover of Monsanto earlier this month

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