The proposed acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer raises fears and fantasies. Would the approval lead to a dangerous concentration of control over our food supply? Are those concerns reasonable? The landscape is much more complex than the picture set out by GMO critics, many of whom see the world in black and white, or the description by some economists and especially politicians who are holding hearings on the proposed merger........Le Monde, the banner of environmentalism in France, offers us an illustration of the extravagant condemnations: “The future world number one in seeds and pesticides has the ambition to control the entire agricultural chain from the seed to the consumer’s plate.”......To Read More.......
My Take - In a capitalist system the only monopolies that became abusive were monopolies promoted or protected by government. In a capitalist system if a monopoly overcharges, restricts or offers poor service someone will form a company to compete with them and end that monoploy. As for controlling th world's seed supply - that's a red herring as there are a lot of companies working on seed lines, and and that old argument these large companies buy out other companies to destroy their seed lines....that's insanity because that restricts what a company can be do in the future, and there's no evidence of that.
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