Bayer-Konzern erwirtschaftet abermals Milliardenverlust
Trotz Milliardenverlust versucht der Vorstandschef Optimismus zu verbreiten, doch Bayer steckt weiter tief in der Krise. Das Risiko von Glyphosat-Klagen in den USA ist kaum kalkulierbar. Von M. Heussen.
Shout out to #Elanco who just sneakily rebranded and halved the dosage of the hip and joint supplement the vet told me to give to my #dog every day, keeping the price per count the same but effectively doubling the cost to administer the same dose. Seems like classic #enshittification. Apparently they took out a $4.275 billion loan to fund the acquisition of #Bayer Animal Health, I guess the money to pay that loan back has to come from somewhere.
( https://www.elanco.com/en-us/news/elanco-announces-restructuring-to-drive-synergies )
I just ate a carrot. It was a fairly cheap piece of food, costing much less than one dollar. Farming a carrot doesn't use very much energy. And they taste good.
Bayer, the giant food and pharma conglomerate, just came out with a product called a NewCarrot. A NewCarrot is completely indistinguishable from a traditional carrot, but a NewCarrot costs $1,000,000, and farming NewCarrots requires 23,000 kWH per carrot. Also, you can't eat a NewCarrot unless you have internet access.
Every mainstream news outlet is talking non-stop about how NewCarrots are a revolutionary technology that will completely reshape every industry.
Many big corporations have fired most of their workers and paid Bayer to replace their workers with NewCarrots. How can a carrot do a job that previously required a human? No one has any idea, but Bayer assures us it's possible. Even if it's not possible now, carrots are a completely new invention that didn't exist two years ago and they're improving rapidly, so pretty soon carrots will be able to do everything humans can.
Bayer avoids using their own company name in marketing NewCarrots. Instead, they say NewCarrots are made by a non-existent company called "OpenCarrot." Bayer insists "OpenCarrot" is a scrappy startup standing up to the tyranny of Big Agra, despite the fact that NewCarrots are actually produced by one of the largest food companies. Every single journalist who talks about NewCarrots parrots this marketing point, calling them an "OpenCarrot" product.
Half of all posts on fediverse are about how carrots (both new and old) are completely useless and there will never be a use for carrots ever. They further argue that there will never be a carrot that doesn't require 23,000 kWH to farm: it's biologically impossible for such a carrot to exist.
Meanwhile, lots of CarrotBros respond that of course NewCarrots are useful because they taste good, and never mind that you can get the exact same taste from an old carrot.
Some have proposed a "solution" to the "carrot problem:" introduce the biggest expansion to copyright in a century to allow copyrighting the (natural!) cell structure of carrots, ensuring that it's "piracy" to plant a carrot seed unless a big corporation does it. Creative Commons has warned that Bayer, as a company that owns a lot of IP, would be the biggest beneficiary of such an expansion, and in fact Bayer's subsidiary Monsanto has spent decades lobbying for the creation of "proprietary" crops.
Many fediversians insist Creative Commons must be getting bribed by Bayer, because there's no other conceivable reason an organization founded to oppose copyright expansions might oppose expanding copyright.
Other fedivesians say "okay, maybe dramatically expanding copyright won't hurt OpenCarrot, but what's the alternative? If we don't expand copyright to give OpenCarrot a monopoly on carrots, what's to stop them from continuing to charge a million dollars per carrot?"
A whole bunch of my colleagues are talking about the "epidemic of cheating" that is inevitably caused by NewCarrots. If we don't do something like put students under heavy surveillance, they might use a NewCarrot to cheat on tests. How does a carrot help you cheat on a test? No one knows, but we're supposed to believe it's inevitable.
And here I am just eating my ordinary "old" carrots.
#Bayer #Monsanto #Carrots #NewCarrots #OpenCarrot #LLM #OpenAI #Microsoft #CreativeCommons
Glyphosat-Rechtsstreit: Bayer muss deutlich weniger zahlen
Der Pharma- und Agrarchemiekonzern Bayer muss im Glyphosat-Rechtsstreit deutlich weniger zahlen. Ein US-Gericht reduzierte den Schadensersatz von 2,25 Milliarden auf 400 Millionen Dollar. Noch sind aber mehr als 50.000 Fälle offen.
"In 1803, a German pharmacist, F.W. Sertürner isolated the main alkaloid of opium and named it morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Morphine was soon widely used for medical purposes in Europe and the U.S. But by the end of the century, addiction to the drug had become a problem. In 1898, while searching for a non-addictive substitute for morphine, Heinrick Dresser, working at the Bayer Laboratory in Germany, developed diacetylmorphine. #Bayer marketed it under the brand name Heroin. The new drug, however, turned out to be up to ten times more potent than #morphine."
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/from-poppy-to-heroin-step-1-planting-opium-poppy/3168/
#aspirin #heroin #opium #bayer
@ErinBrockovich urges Missouri Senate to reject pesticide bill that will protect #Bayer from further lawsuits over its pesticide #Roundup causing cancer. Bill 2763 has already passed the Missouri House. “The bill would grant immunity to all pesticide manufacturers whose products cause cancer by allowing them to hide behind a deeply flawed and inadequate labeling procedure from the EPA,” she writes. She says that’s highly concerning because problems take time to emerge. https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/erin-brockovich-urges-missouri-senate-to-reject-pesticide-bill-42488244
#Bayer (owned by #Monsanto) ordered to pay $2.25 #billion after jury concludes #Roundup #weedkiller caused a man’s #cancer - but experts are divided, while #eko.org wants to launch a powerful legal fund for Bayer's victims. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/29/us/roundup-cancer-verdict-philadelphia-bayer-monsanto
@synapsenkitzler@digitalcourage.socialIn dem Artikel hätte man kurz diese fehlende Info einfügen können: "Allerdings spielen die Verfolger #Stuttgart und #München schon am Samstag [Anm.: 13.4.24]. Verlieren beide ihre Partien, wäre #Bayer bereits dann frühzeitig Deutscher #Meister, unabhängig vom eigenen Resultat einen Tag später. Spielen Stuttgart und #Bayern mindestens unentschieden, braucht auch #Leverkusen noch einen Punkt gegen #Bremen."
https://www.sportschau.de/regional/wdr/wdr-so-bereitet-sich-die-stadt-leverkusen-auf-moeglichen-meistertitel-vor-100.html
Bayer kündigt Alternative zum Unkrautvernichter Glyphosat an
Seit Jahren wird der Unkrautvernichter Glyphosat des Bayer-Konzerns als gesundheitsschädlich kritisiert - und es gibt vor allem in den USA viele Prozesse. Nun arbeitet das Unternehmen an einer Alternative.
@tagesschau #Glyphosat zu #beerdigen um Gerichtskosten zu sparen ist keine Option für #bayer ?
Wie tief der Bayer-Konzern in der Krise steckt
Noch strahlt das Bayer-Kreuz über Leverkusen. Doch die Angst ist groß, dass sich der Konzern mehr und mehr aus Deutschland zurückzieht. Skeptiker lässt schon die Tatsache aufhorchen, dass die Bilanz in London vorgestellt wird. Von M. Heussen.
Argentina: Milei oferta hasta la propiedad intelectual de las semillas a empresas de la biotecnología
Glyphosat-Prozess: Bayer soll Milliardensumme zahlen
Bayer ist in den USA erneut wegen des glyphosathaltigen Unkrautvernichters Roundup zu einer hohen Schadensersatzzahlung verurteilt worden. Ein Gericht sprach dem Kläger 2,25 Milliarden Dollar zu. Der Konzern will in Berufung gehen.
Tell Bayer-Monsanto to STOP selling toxic Roundup immediately! #environment #wildlife #Bayer #Monsanto #RoundUp https://action.foe.org/page/61952/action/1
@Snowshadow@mastodon.socialIt's about time! Get this Poison off the market!
Why a Canadian class action lawsuit is taking aim at a common weedkiller
Roundup, (Bayer is the owner) the brand name of a glyphosate-based herbicide that is the subject of the lawsuit, is the most commonly used herbicide in the world and has been sold across Canada since 1976 by U.S. company Monsanto.
#Poison #Canada #Bayer #Glyphosate #News
https://globalnews.ca/news/10235300/glyphosate-class-action-lawsuit/
@tagesschau
Durch den #Jobabbau bei #bayer werden Fachkräfte frei gesetzt, die jenseits von Glyphosat dringend gebraucht werden.
@tagesschau na da freuen sich die Mitarbeiter von #bayer aber, dass am Ende doch Sie die Zeche für die #Monsanto Übernahme zahlen dürfen. Aber derjenige der dies zu verantworten hat, bekam Millionen Boni dafür #Baumann und #Merz hatte den größten Aktionär #Blackrock bei Bayer vertreten #cdu
Bayer streicht zahlreiche Stellen in Deutschland
Der Umbau von Bayer unter dem neuen Konzernchef Bill Anderson wird wie erwartet vielen Mitarbeitern den Job kosten. Bis Ende 2025 soll der Personalabbau beim Pharma- und Agrarkonzern abgeschlossen sein.
Monsanto muss 857 Millionen Schadenersatz zahlen
Ein US-Geschworenengericht hat die Bayer-Tochter Monsanto zur Zahlung einer hohen Millionenstrafe verurteilt. Das Unternehmen hafte für die Verwendung der giftigen Chemikalie PCB in Lampen an einer Schule in den USA.
@chrisvanswaay #ctgb #lnv #biodiversity #biology #agriculture
#insects #bees #BBB #lto #bayer
Our results from 316 Bombus terrestris colonies at 106 agricultural sites across eight European countries confirm that the regulatory system fails to sufficiently prevent pesticide-related impacts on non-target organisms.
These findings support the need for postapproval monitoring of both pesticide exposure and effects to confirm that the regulatory process is sufficiently protective
