Money
may not be able to buy the purest love, but it can buy the best,
life-ending cancer. For Monsanto, giant of rule and misrule in matters
of genetically modified crops, known for
bullying practices towards farmers, things have not been so rosy of
late. Ever the self-promoter of saving the world an agricultural
headache (biotech crops being the earth’s touted nutritional salvation),
the company has run into a set of legal snags that have raided its
funds and risk sinking it, along with Bayer AG, the company that bought
it last year for $63 billion. [ 991 more words ]