Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certainly could say something about how concentrating power in a few corporations is not a good thing but that is a result of capitalism under a lax anti-trust environment and all companies play under the same incentive. Not in terms of the technology though.
Bayer/Monsanto certainly have set the standard for corrupt control over the worlds food resources, though, and they're definitely playing evil games in Ukraine, for example ..
And Greenpeace and similar ilk wanted to block golden rice which could potentially saves many lives and prevent blindness in areas where vitamin A deficiency is common. They care about nothing but to demonize a technology for the purposes of their misguided ideology
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golde... . As far as I know Monsanto/Bayer do not own any IP around it.