[Bear_Slayer]

There is a new systemic from bayer

I used to work at a hardware store and was slightly taken off balance when I saw my first Bayer insecticide.

Why?

Bayer Laboratory was part of IG Farben a 3rd Reich company that developed products for the Nazi War machine, including Zyklon-B used in the gas chambers.

Kinda creepy to me, knowing they're still at it, only insects are the new enemy.

[blackdog]

Well, my wife is a research chemist working out of one of Bayers past buildings in Woddbridge, CT. They sold it to the Swedish firm my wife works for. A top notch lab setup. Pretty much unused when they bought it a few years ago.

As for Bayer's origin, sure it's a fact. But I don't think that represents them today whatsoever.

[RightWhale]

I G Farben was the company that built the synthfuel plants all over Germany for the war and Germany relied on these plants for a large percentge of its military oil product needs until the plants were bombed into scrap. This is the tech needed in the USA to somewhow crawl back to energy independence as Nixon wished.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Kinda creepy to me, knowing they're still at it, only insects are the new enemy."

Insects were the old enemy as well...Zyklon-B was originally developed and tested as an insecticide.