Bayer vows not to use reputation to impose Monsanto’s GM crops on Europe
Bayer’s chief said the company is not planning to take advantage of its own good reputation to forcefully introduce genetically modified crops to Europe against its inhabitants’ will after it took over of US seed and pesticide manufacturer Monsanto.
“We aren't taking over Monsanto to establish genetically modified plants in Europe,” Bayer’s chief executive Werner Baumann told the Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper on Monday.
According to Baumann, it’s “not the plan” to use Bayer’s good reputation to impose GM plants on Europe.
“Some people think it might be easier for us than for Monsanto, given the reputation we enjoy,” Baumann said. “If politics and society in Europe don't want genetically modified seeds, then we accept that, even if we are of a different opinion.”
Baumann said that given America’s decades of experience there are no “justifiable reasons to be skeptical” about the impact of GM crops on the environment and health safety.
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