Chapter 1020 The Trend That Can't Be Stopped, I'm Done!

The U.S. imperialist future super agriculture Monsanto was originally just an inconspicuous American agrochemical enterprise, but from an unknown nobody, it successfully counterattacked, and became the leader of the world's agricultural industry in one fell swoop.

Monsanto's founder is Quinny, and the initial capital is basically funded by her Hispanic husband's mother's family, so the company he founded is also named after his wife's maiden name, Monsanto.

Monsanto's main business now is saccharin, a cheap, sweet industrial product born in a chemical laboratory.

Monsanto's previous business did Agent Orange, what is Agent Orange, in order to meet the needs of the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War, the company produced a large number of chemical defoliant Agent Orange.

At that time, the government of northern Vietnam organized a convoy of transport vehicles to continuously deliver support materials from China and the former Soviet Union to the south through the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" about 10 kilometers wide, "to resist US aggression and aid the south." In order to cut off this aid line and eliminate the guerrilla hideouts, the US military resorted to constant bombing and spraying large quantities of the chemical defoliant "Agent Orange".

The chemical defoliant is called "Agent Orange" because it is contained in a container with an orange logo stripe. Agent Orange contains chemicals that were later discovered and commonly known as "dioxins", which are very harmful to humans and the environment.

It is now seeking to genetically modified crops into an area that has been controversial for more than two decades, and Monsanto is basically the leader in this genetically modified crop technology.

Tomatoes with fish genes, potatoes and corn with their own pesticides, sheep with spider genes, pigs with mouse genes...... Genetically modified foods are called genetically modified, and those that have not changed their ingredients are organic foods, but many markets, supermarkets, and hypermarkets have blurred these concepts in later generations.

I don't know what's going on when I look at the organic food that is suddenly written, and the genetically modified food is already on the table.

Later Monsanto opponents believed that genetically modified organisms violated the natural laws of crops, violated God's will, caused environmental pollution, genetic drift, super weeds, etc., and were harmful to the human body, but this harm has not been proven.

Proponents believe that crops that are insect-carrying genes, for example, can greatly reduce the use of pesticides, improve production efficiency, and increase crop yields.

For genetically modified technology, a product of human leapfrog technology, consumers around the world are mostly silent, and a small number of opponents are mainly concentrated in Europe, original ecologists and high-end consumers.

Europe is particularly opposed to the cultivation of genetically modified crops.

The European Union's controls on genetically modified crops and foods are probably the strictest in the world, and member states are protecting their citizens from unknown harms that GM can bring by adopting the precautionary principle. However, these leaders ignore the fact that genetically modified crops have been safely grown and eaten in the United States for more than two decades, and that major scientific organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association, the European Food Safety Authority, and the Royal Society of the United Kingdom have recognized genetically modified foods as safe for consumption.

But Europeans are still opposed, but GMO has always won the popularity of farmers in many other countries around the world, and many feed companies like it, and this cannot be stopped.

This is also the future generations of genetically modified even in the controversy, but still genetically modified crops are popular, supermarkets, vegetable markets, those big and round tomatoes, those cucumbers that are two sizes larger than cucumbers, high-yield corn, soybeans......

Genetically modified organisms can't stop it...... The global population is increasing, and it has become a must for agriculture to grow higher yielding crops in a limited area, especially in the most populous countries, as well as countries where the yield of raw crops in Africa is not high, we can't watch the people in these places starve to death, these places are not developed Europe, they don't have to worry about not having enough to eat, they want to eat well.

Monsanto is on the inevitable production line of agriculture in the new century, and in the past life Monsanto told that it has more than 1,700 patents on agricultural genetically modified, and later generations hold the patent rights of 90% of the world's genetically modified seeds.

In the previous life, Bayer of Germany issued several acquisition intentions to Monsanto, and finally sold it for 63 billion US dollars.

In May 2016, Bayer announced that it would offer $122 per share in cash, or $62 billion including debt, to acquire Monsanto, a U.S. seed company.

On September 14, 2016, Bayer announced on its official website that Bayer and Monsanto had reached an acquisition agreement. Bayer will acquire Monsanto for $128 per share, for a total of $66 billion.

In May 2016, Bayer announced the acquisition of Monsanto, and in September 2016 it signed an agreement with the U.S. company for $128 per share. The original plan was supposed to be completed by the end of 2017, but it was put on hold due to antitrust investigations in various places.

On June 8, 2018, Germany's Bayer AG completed its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto.

It was the largest takeover in Germany's history, and before Bayer, the German automaker Daimler AG paid $38.6 billion to buy Chrysler AG of the United States, Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto was far behind.

Why did Bayer of Germany buy Monsanto at a high price?

First of all, let's look at what kind of company Bayer is, Bayer is known for its medical products such as aspirin, but also produces products in the agricultural sector, such as seeds, herbicides, pesticides, why Bayer acquired Monsanto, obviously if the acquisition is successful, Bayer will immediately become a global agricultural leader, further strengthening its position as a life sciences company.

Bayer's Board of Directors is touting the need for more innovative solutions to promote the next generation of agriculture in the face of the complex challenges of increasing global resource constraints and climate fluctuations, and the acquisition of Monsanto is positioned as a partner in search of integrated, superior solutions, Bayer AG is committed to enabling farmers to sustainably produce sufficient, healthy, affordable food to feed the world's growing population.

Therefore, as far as Li Jun is concerned, it is worth winning Monsanto for the 63 billion cash dollars, not to mention that Monsanto researches crops suitable for US imperialism.

Monsanto, Li Jun launched the first acquisition offer for Monsanto.

At this time, Monsanto is completing the transgenic trial of its company's first genetically modified organism, morning glory, and is making great strides in transgenic development, developing crops containing Bt protein resistant to lepidopteran pests and Roundup herbicides corn, cotton, soybeans and other crops.

Faced with a takeover from Huaxia, Monsanto attached great importance to Li Jun's offer.

Monsanto's current chairman refused without even looking at it.

Soon, Li Jun's second letter of intent to acquire reached the chairman of Monsanto again.

This time, he opened the file.

"Eighty million dollars acquisition. ”