Monsanto

BERLIN: The German government will ban the use of controversial weedkiller glyphosate - the subject of US lawsuits over claims it causes cancer - from the end of 2023, two government sources said on Wednesday (Sep 4). Germany's move comes after Austria's low…

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will ban the use of the weedkiller glyphosate - the subject of billion-dollar U.S lawsuits over claims it causes cancer - from the end of 2023 and limit its use before then, the Environment Ministry said on Wednesday. Germany's mov…

FRANKFURT: Bayer said it hired Johnson & Johnson executive Marianne De Backer to manage acquisitions and licensing deals at its drugs unit, as the German drugmaker turns to outside sources to boost its development pipeline. De Backer will take the role o…

ST. LOUIS More than a year after Bayer gobbled it up, Monsanto has managed to stay in the headlines, thanks to a mountain of lawsuits that allege its moneymaking weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. Like Monsanto, Bayer insists the widely used product is safe, b…

Is Monsanto deal threatening Bayer’s future?

Is Monsanto deal threatening Bayer’s future?

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The Business Roundtable’s Statement (and see B Corporation Statement below) The Business Roundtable, an organization of corporations, issued a statement last week—in a two-page advertisement with all the signatures in the Wall Street Journal, no less—that go…

In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: Lets start now to liberate the UKs extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and lets develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world. Joh…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune I’m abandoning the RC…