Monsanto = Genetically Modified Humans!

he Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a US-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as "Roundup". Monsanto is also the leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed; it provides the technology in 90% of the genetically engineered seeds used in the US market.[2] It is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.[3]

Agracetus, owned by Monsanto, exclusively produces Roundup Ready soybean seed for the commercial market. In 2005, it finalized purchase of Seminis Inc, making it the world's largest conventional seed company.

Monsanto's development and marketing of genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone, as well as its aggressive litigation, political lobbying practices, seed commercialization practices and "strong-arming" of the seed industry[4] have made the company controversial around the world and a primary target of the alter-globalization movement and environmental activists. As a result of its business strategies and licensing agreements, Monsanto came under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department in 2009.[4][5]

Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901, by John Francis Queeny, a 30-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry. He funded the start-up with his own money and capital from a soft drink distributor, and gave the company his wife's maiden name. His father in law was Emmanuel Mendes de Monsanto, wealthy financier of a sugar company active in Vieques, Puerto Rico and based in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies. The company's first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin, which it sold to the Coca-Cola Company. It also introduced caffeine and vanillin to Coca-Cola, and became one of that company's main suppliers.[citation needed]

In 1919, Monsanto established its presence in Europe by entering into a partnership with Graesser's Chemical Works at Cefn Mawr near Ruabon, Wales to produce vanillin, salicylic acid, aspirin and later rubber.

In its third decade, the 1920s, Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals like sulfuric acid, and the decade ended with Queeny's son Edgar Monsanto Queeny taking over the company in 1928.

The 1940s saw Monsanto become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene, and synthetic fibers. Since then, it has remained one of the top 10 US chemical companies. Other major products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, and Agent Orange used primarily during the Vietnam War as a defoliant agent (later found to be contaminated during manufacture with highly carcinogenic dioxin), the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet), bovine somatotropin (bovine growth hormone (BST)), and PCBs.[6] Also in this decade, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission.

Monsanto began manufacturing DDT in 1944, along with some 15 other companies.[7] This insecticide was much-welcomed in the fight against malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. The use of DDT in the U.S. was banned by Congress in 1972, due in large part to efforts by environmentalists, who persisted in the challenge put forth by Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring in 1962, which sought to inform the public of the side effects associated with DDT. As the decade ended, Monsanto acquired American Viscose from England's Courtauld family in 1949.

In 1954, Monsanto partnered with German chemical giant Bayer to form Mobay and market polyurethanes in the US.

Monsanto was a pioneer of optoelectronics in the 1970s. In 1968 they became the first company to start mass production of (visible) Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), using gallium arsenide phosphide. This ushered in the era of solid-state lights. From 1968 to 1970 sales doubled every few months. Their products (discrete LEDs and seven-segment numeric displays) became the standards of industry. The primary markets then were electronic calculators, digital watches, and digital clocks.[8]

In the 1960s and 1970s, Monsanto became one of the most important producers of Agent Orange for US Military operations in Vietnam. Agent Orange caused an immense damage to health, also for US-soldiers, not at least by genetic modification.[9][10]

In 1980, Monsanto established the Edgar Monsanto Queeny safety award[citation needed] in honor of its former CEO (1928--1960), to encourage accident prevention.

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[HTCSWEOD]

Just watch Monsanto corn grow... it's a FREAK... of nature. When we have little or no rain during the growing season, my organic heritage corn is dwarfed, while the Monsanto Roundup Corn grows from apparently nothing just at tall and healthy looking as ever. This year, monsanto corn was planted next to my property... my honey bee colonies died out completely... many say the systemic pesticide in Monsanto corn is the reason.. I can't say they are wrong. My empty colonies speak volumes.

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@HTCSWEOD what to do, Man kind can not speed the process of growing food. It a long and lengthy process done by nature. I can not wait when nature say's "fuck you" to the world.. LOL, well most likely to the pricks and hypocrites who think they are better..

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@Zyworski Circumcise the bastards.. a little snip snip and they be done

[Zyworski]

@CouldNotCareLes I don't claim to be an expert on the law, but your theory sounds reasonable to me. There are a lot of genes to exploit so this one case is not the end, Monsanto can use their army of attorney's to intimidate, bully , and badger the last of our small farms into oblivion, this whole issue needs to be circumvented by legislation.

[CouldNotCareLes]

@Zyworski - They could sue only if you utilized the trait.

The only lawsuits ever filed were a result of a farmer applying glyphosate to a crop he grew without paying for the glyphosate tolerant seed.

Otherwise you have not benefited from the technology so the damages would be zero.

Les

[NonstopRam]

O.o

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@TheStoryIsOver of course, as all companies do!

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@TheStoryIsOver yep

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@K1NGKULL why?

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@Zyworski too true..