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2. I still don't know what Bayer bought Monsanto knowing Round Up came with it
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:42 AM
Mar 2025

Bayer bought Monsanto 8 years ago for $66B in cash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto

Monsanto has $14B in revenue in 2017 with about $2.25B in net income from what I can find. I guess smarter people than me thought thus was a good idea.


My first experience with Round up was working on a golf course in the 80’s. Nice course. I cut grass and raked traps. We didn’t have to weed whack around the mostly pine trees. I asked the assistant greens keeper how there was this ring of each tree with no grass but the trees are fine. He said we have this stuff - Round Up. I wasn’t really environmentally aware yet and I didn’t say anything but I just remember thinking “That’s just not right. it’s just not how things should work. There has to be a problem with this”….and then finished taking the trap I was in.

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