{"id":42526,"date":"2019-01-10T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42526"},"modified":"2019-01-10T08:15:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T13:15:11","slug":"gm-crops-pesticides-corporate-duplicity-bayer-has-never-been-transparent-in-its-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42526","title":{"rendered":"GM Crops, Pesticides, Corporate Duplicity: Bayer Has Never Been Transparent in Its Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GM Crops, Pesticides, Corporate Duplicity: Bayer Has Never Been Transparent in Its Life!<\/a><\/h3>\n

Open Letter to Bayer CropScience<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis charming company operated a factory and camp at Auschwitz during the WW2. The UK and US governments are now allowing it to control global farming methods, GM crops, so-called \u2018advanced technologies\u2019 and pesticides.\u201d \u2013 Rosemary Mason<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tireless campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason<\/strong> has just written an open letter to Werner Baumann<\/strong>, the chief executive of\u00a0Bayer CropScience. It is in direct response to\u00a0Bayer CropScience\u2019s\u00a0advertisement that was placed in Politico and the Farmers\u2019 Guardian on 19\/12\/2018 which reads:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTransparency creates trust. At Bayer, we embrace our responsibility to communicate how we assess our products\u2019 safety \u2014 and we recognize that people around the world want more information around glyphosate. This month, we published more than 300 study summaries on the safety of glyphosate on our dedicated\u00a0<\/span>transparency website<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0\u201c<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mason is scathing in her response and begins her letter by saying, \u201cBayer CropScience has never been transparent in its life.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>She makes it clear to Baumann from the outset that she considers Bayer CropScience and Monsanto \u201ccriminal corporations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her letter outlines a cocktail of corporate duplicity, cover-ups and criminality which the public and the environment are paying the price for, not least in terms of the effects of glyphosate.<\/p>\n

She has sent her letter to various mainstream media outlets. I recently received it and have placed it here, so anyone can access it in its entirety.\u00a0I urge everyone to read the letter and circulate it on social media.<\/p>\n

Read the\u00a0Open Letter to Bayer CropScience\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GM Crops, Pesticides, Corporate Duplicity: Bayer Has Never Been Transparent in Its Life! Open Letter to Bayer CropScience \u201cThis charming company operated a factory and camp at Auschwitz during the WW2. The UK and US governments are now allowing it to control global farming methods, GM crops, so-called \u2018advanced technologies\u2019 and pesticides.\u201d \u2013 Rosemary Mason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12141,23833,4130,6110,371,23832,2516,23831],"class_list":["post-42526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bayer","tag-bayer-cropscience","tag-genetically-modified-organism","tag-global-research","tag-gm-crops","tag-gmo-food","tag-pesticides","tag-rosemary-mason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42527,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42526\/revisions\/42527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}