Bloomberg Law
Feb. 5, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

Fair Play: Could Bayer-Monsanto Elevate National Security in Merger Reviews?

Type #mergerfromhell into your search box on Twitter and examine the results. Environmentalists, farmers, food safety advocates are all engaged in active grassroots and social media campaigns to stop the $63.5 billion merger between Bayer AG, a German company, and Monsanto Co., a U.S. company.

It’s a massively unpopular deal, more so than the other two major agribusiness deals that preceded it, DowDupont Inc. and Syngenta AG-ChemChina.

Objections to the Bayer-Monsanto deal run the gamut. Natural food enthusiasts don’t like it because Monsanto touts genetically modified food. Environmentalists have targeted Monsanto for years over its pesticides.

But now some officials ...

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