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It’s BAYER Monsanto. BAYER Monsanto.
by steponlego 4y ago
It’s BAYER Monsanto. BAYER Monsanto.
- jplona 4y agoIn case other folks missed the intent of this comment, Monsanto is now a part of Bayer. I guess this is meant to remind us of that.
- qwertox 4y agoIsn't it more correct how the article words it? > Monsanto, owned by Germany-based Bayer, said in a statement... Bayer isn't using the Monsanto name as a brand, which "BAYER Monsanto" strongly suggests.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoIt would be more correct to just call them Bayer all the time. They are trying to shield the original brand from the bad press associated with Monsanto but they stir the ship now.
- mcv 4y agoHow often do we talk here about Google rather than Alphabet?
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoThe situation is totally dissimilar: Alphabet was clearly setup as a holding company to host both Google which remains a company by itself and other activities which were being spun out. Meanwhile, Bayer completely bought out Monsanto intending to merge it with its activities chasing synergies and phase out the name. The press generaly properly refers to either Alphabet as the holding company or Google the company as approriate.
- mcv 4y agoI thought Monsanto had been bought but continued to exist as a daughter of Bayer, but it seems you're right: there's no entity called Monsanto anymore, and the entity that was once Monsanto does not exist.
- lgtanc 4y agoPeople don't call RedHat "IBM/Redhat", or as others suggest here, just "IBM". Monsanto has always been in the news for things like this before the takeover, I doubt that the Bayer owners get involved in a U.S. matter like the FOIA request.
- xdavidliu 4y agodo we call it Meta Instagram?
- kozinc 4y agoI mean, it would make sense, like Meta Facebook, Meta Oculus VR, etc. Good or bad, the ones at the top have to be responsible for whatever happens under them or the buck just gets passed around, and if we don't even know where to point the finger, they don't have an incentive to be better. A naming convention like this, while a bit stupid, would be better than having to look up who bought/owns/(is a subsidiary of) whom.
- brookst 4y agoEh, do you buy Duracell batteries or Berkshire Hathaway Duracell batteries?
- bigbillheck 4y agoIt's also a clear example of synecdoche.
- LatteLazy 4y agoWhy is it important to add the Bayer in this context?
- steponlego 4y agoBayer actually went to war against the USA before WWI even started. That's why.
- LatteLazy 4y agoWhat are you referring to? How does a company go to war (before it's government?)
- steponlego 4y agoLook up the Phenol crisis, and it's easy - companies are at war with Russia today.
- LatteLazy 4y agoAll the Phenol results are about the (2000s) US opioid epidemic (except one which is about Phenol free cigarettes in the 1960s...). I can't find a Phenol Crisis pre WW1. The general history of Phenol makes no mention of Bayer either. The only application was by Lister as an antiseptic.
- steponlego 4y agoYou can’t Google so it didn’t happen. OK. That’s unfortunate but I guess you’re stuck.
- LatteLazy 4y agoI've asked you three times what your talking about. I've looked myself. You still can't manage to tell me. So I guess I will never know...