These companies used to sell heroin and Agent Orange. Two giants of the farming and chemical industries agreed to merge Wednesday in a $66 billion deal: the U.S.’s Monsanto and Germany’s Bayer, the original maker of aspirin. It’s the year’s biggest deal and will create the world’s largest supplier of seeds and farm chemicals, with $26 billion in combined annual revenue from agriculture. Monsanto: then & nowAgent Orange is sprayed over a forest in north Vietnam, during the Vietnam war. Source: Getty Images Monsanto, founded in 1901, originally made food additives like saccharin before expanding into industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals and agriculture products.

Source: Thanhnien News September 15, 2016 03:33 UTC