Yeah a great German company, let's take a closer look.
https://corporatewatch.org/company-profiles/bayer-ag-corporate-crimes
5. Corporate Crimes
5.1. Bayer and War Crimes
5.2. Scams, Blags and Corporate Bullying
5.3. Pharmaceutical Phailings
5.4. Pesticides and Poisons
5.5. Abusing Workers
http://www.naturalnews.com/024534_Europe_health_WHO.html
Dr. Fritz ter Meer, a director of IG Farben who was directly involved in developing the nerve gas, Zyklon-B, which killed millions of Jews, was sentenced to seven years in prison but was released after four years through the intervention of Rockefeller and J.J. McCloy, then U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. An unrepentant Fritz ter Meer, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, returned to work in Bayer where he served as Chairman for more than 10 years, until 1961.
https://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/dissent/documents/health/pharmfraud.html
https://www.organicconsumers.org/essays/bayer-and-monsanto-marriage-made-hell
The two multinationals that teamed up during the Vietnam War to
poison millions of people with their Agent Orange herbicide—St. Louis, Mo.-based Monsanto and Germany’s Bayer AG—are looking to become one.
Bayer has
announced a bid to buy Monsanto in a deal that would expand Bayer's GMO and pesticide holdings and add drugs to Monsanto’s global portfolio. Monsanto has
rejected the latest bid, but the two are still in talks.
https://usrtk.org/a-few-other-thing...ut-them-crimes-scandals-and-other-wrongdoing/
Bayer
In 1898, Bayer began selling a new medicine called “Heroin.” Bayer promoted it as a cold, cough and “irritation” remedy for children as late as 1912.
[11] According to Kenaz Filan’s history of the poppy, “Believing (incorrectly) that heroin produced less respiratory depression than codeine, Bayer presented heroin as a safer children’s cough suppressant. It was also touted as a cure for morphine addiction and a panacea against, among other things, depression, bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis and stomach cancer.”
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The companies BASF, Bayer, Hoescht and three smaller companies founded IG Farben (Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG) in 1925. See BASF profile above.
In the early 1970’s, Bayer’s fungicide Baycovin (diethylpyrocarbonate) was used as a preservative for wine, beer and fruit juices. However, Baycovin was found to produce a potent carcinogen, urethan.
[13] The FDA banned Baycovin in 1972.
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In April, 2003, Bayer pled guilty to a criminal charge and agreed to pay $257 million in fines and damages for defrauding Medicare in a scheme to overcharge for its antibiotic, Cipro. At the time, it was the largest Medicaid fraud settlement in history.
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Bayer is a major producer of neonicotinoid pesticides that have been linked to the decline of bee populations. These pesticides were banned for two years in Europe.
[16] Bayer has mounted a massive campaign to keep its pesticides on the market, in part by using the classic tobacco industry strategy of pretending to care. “Bayer is strictly committed to bee health,” a Bayer spokesperson told the
New York Times. Hans Muilerman of Pesticide Action Network Europe explained that Bayer does “almost anything that helps their products remaining on the market. Massive lobbying, hiring P.R. firms to frame and spin, inviting commissioners to show their plants and their sustainability.”
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But hey, who cares if they have a good bottom line right?I
