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The funny thing with Bayer recently purchasing Monsanto is wondering which name elicits the least shady history

• qaq 8y ago
  Monsanto ? Bayer's medical experiments on people in concentration camps is hard to top.
  • aldoushuxley001 8y ago
    I'd tend to agree, but yet they went with Bayer. I guess Bayer's history is a little more buried while Monsanto's flagship product is currently getting sued to oblivion.
  • philwelch 8y ago
    Plus: > In 1895, the German drug company Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over-the-counter drug under the trademark name Heroin.[69] It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants that did not have morphine's addictive side-effects. Morphine at the time was a popular recreational drug, and Bayer wished to find a similar but non-addictive substitute to market. However, contrary to Bayer's advertising as a "non-addictive morphine substitute," heroin would soon have one of the highest rates of addiction among its users.[70] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History