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	Monsanto - SourceWatch
		Also "In 1967, Monsanto entered into a joint venture with IG Farben" "It is the German chemical firm that was the financial core of the Hitler regime, and was the main supplier of Zyklon-B to the German government during the extermination phase of the Holocaust" [4][5]; IG Farben was not dissolved until 2003 [6].
		Monsanto has sued many a farmer when their GM crops have turned up on the farmer's fields even though the farmers say they never planted them (examples)[36] [37] [38].
		Monsanto was the creator of several attractions in Disney's Tommorrowland [46].
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Monsanto (3442 words)

	Monsanto ~ Home
		We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world be successful, produce healthier foods, better animal feeds and more fiber, while also reducing agriculture's impact on our environment.
		Sun, 4 Nov 2007 — Monsanto and Devgen Describe New Approach to Insect-Protection
		Our Values, described in the Monsanto Pledge, guide our business decisions.
	www.monsanto.com (167 words)

	Monsanto UK, a food biotechnology company
		Welcome to Monsanto's website about food biotechnology in the UK and around the world.
		We are focused on applying innovation and technology to assist farmers around the world to be more successful, helping them produce healthier foods, better animal feeds and more fibre, while also reducing agriculture's footprint on our environment.
		Monsanto currently invests over a million pounds every working day on R&D that farmers tell us makes a difference.
	www.monsanto.co.uk (595 words)

	Monsanto UK, a food biotechnology company
		Welcome to Monsanto's website about food biotechnology in the UK and around the world.
		We are focused on applying innovation and technology to assist farmers around the world to be more successful, helping them produce healthier foods, better animal feeds and more fibre, while also reducing agriculture's footprint on our environment.
		Monsanto currently invests over a million pounds every working day on R&D that farmers tell us makes a difference.
	rd.business.com /index.asp?epm=s.1&bdcq=Monsanto&bdcr=2&bdcu=http://www.monsanto.co.uk/&bdcp=&partner=2662601&bdcs=nwuuid-2662601-5CA60897-FE03-0210-2BF6-9ABBDF5B22DD-ym (595 words)

	Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig \| Greenpeace International
		Monsanto Corporation is out to own the world's food supply, the dangers of genetic engineering and reduced biodiversity notwithstanding, as they pig-headedly set about hog-tying farmers with their monopoly plans.
		Monsanto isn't just seeking a patent for the method, they are seeking a patent on the actual pigs which are bred from this method.
		Monsanto wants to use the detection of this gene sequence to screen pig populations, in order to find which animals are likely to produce more pork per pound of feed.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/monsanto-pig-patent-111 (1234 words)

	Monsanto in the McSpotlight
		Monsanto is an American-owned international agro-chemical and foods conglomerate.
		While Monsanto has been critised for some time for their production of NutraSweet and the genetically engineered rBGH (Bovine Growth Hormone), the latest criticism is for it's moves into the world of GMOs (genetically manipulated organisams).
		Monsanto was sued on behalf of plaintiffs who say they were harmed when a Norfolk and Western railroad tank car derailed, spilling 19,000 gallons of a Monsanto chemical called "ocp-crude" into the community of Sturgeon, Missouri the night of January 10, 1979.
	www.mcspotlight.org /beyond/companies/monsanto.html (1607 words)

	Monsanto wants a bigger slice of the pork pie - Creative & Media - theage.com.au
		MONSANTO, already a powerhouse in biotech crops, is shaking up the swine industry with plans to patent pig-breeding techniques and lay claim to the animals born as a result.
		The practices Monsanto wants to patent basically involve identifying genes that result in desirable traits in swine, breeding animals to achieve those traits and using a specialised device to inseminate sows in a way that uses less sperm than is typically required.
		Monsanto says any fears about its work are overblown and the patents are simply a "defensive move" as many players race to find technology to breed bigger and better pigs to meet consumer demands.
	www.theage.com.au /news/business/monsanto-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-pork-pie/2005/08/21/1124562755382.html (411 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Monsanto fined $1.5m for bribery
		Monsanto admitted one of its employees paid the senior official two years ago in a bid to avoid environmental impact studies being conducted on its cotton.
		Monsanto was facing stiff opposition from activists and farmers who were campaigning against its plans to introduce genetically modified cotton in Indonesia.
		Monsanto said it accepted full responsibility for its employees' actions, adding that it had taken "remedial actions to address the activities in Indonesia" and had been "fully co-operative" throughout the investigative process.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4153635.stm (361 words)

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		Monsanto aggressively promotes Roundup as a safe, general purpose herbicide for use on everything from lawns and orchards, to large coniferous forest holdings, where aerial spraying of the herbicide is used to suppress the growth of deciduous seedlings and shrubs and encourage the growth of profitable fir and spruce trees.
		In 1997, Monsanto responded to five years of complaints by the New York State Attorney General that its advertisements for Roundup were misleading; the company altered its ads to delete claims that the herbicide is “biodegradable” and “environmentally friendly,” and paid $50,000 toward the state’s legal expenses in the case.
		Monsanto has dubbed the apparent exponential growth of what it terms “biological knowledge” to be nothing less than “Monsanto’s Law.” Like any other putative law of nature, one has little choice but to see its predictions realized and, here, the prediction is nothing less than the continued exponential growth of Monsanto’s global reach.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/mar99tokar.htm (4420 words)

	AP Wire \| 12/08/2006 \| Monsanto, Pioneer fight for seed market (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The result seems to be a tight competition this year, with Monsanto possessing an edge, according to a recent report from analyst Kevin McCarthy with Bank of America in New York.
		Monsanto has vastly improved its network of seed dealers and taken market share away from Pioneer in the crucial market for U.S. corn seed, McCarthy said.
		Monsanto spokeswoman Lori Fisher said the company is gaining sales by selling "triple stack" seeds that have more than one genetically engineered trait - such as herbicide and pest resistance.
	www.philly.com /mld/centredaily/business/16190896.htm (637 words)

	Monsanto 1Q profit rose 53 percent (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Monsanto's fiscal year is built around the agricultural calendar, so the first quarter begins after the summer farming season.
		Monsanto shares fell 92 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $50.76 in midday trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
		Monsanto forecasts that total soybean acres under production may decrease slightly during this growing season as farmers increase the number of acres planted to corn in the United States, given that corn is fetching higher market prices due to demand for alternative fuels such as ethanol.
	www.ohio.com /mld/ohio/business/16382380.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp (533 words)

	Corporate Watch : Monsanto : Corporate Crimes
		Monsanto have seen the potential for new markets for their GM products within the mechanisms of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change [51].
		Monsanto hopes to be a major provider of GM trees for forestry ‘carbon sinks’ (large areas of forests planted to soak up CO2 emissions).
		Monsanto are close to commercialising RoundUp Ready trees and are rumoured to be developing carbon absorbing trees and plants.
	www.corporatewatch.org.uk /?lid=210 (820 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
		St Louis-based Monsanto has been forced to pay $1.5 million in fines after owning up to spending more than $700,000 on bribes in a country where it has been losing money for the past few years, and one which has long been ranked one of the most corrupt in the world.
		In September 2000, amid pressure from the public and non-government organizations, a planned agreement between the government and Monsanto to develop 20,000 hectares (49,400 acres) of GM cotton plants in South Sulawesi was postponed by Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Rizal Ramli, hours before it was due to be signed.
		Monsanto had originally applied for permission to grow GM cotton throughout Indonesia, where, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, there are 100,000 hectares of potential land for growing cotton.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/GA20Ae04.html (1991 words)

	Monsanto versus Farmers
		When Monsanto suspects that saved seed containing a "Monsanto genetic trait," have been grown, documentation is requested from the farmers to confirm that the crop was planted from newly purchased seed.
		Monsanto used entrapment to file a lawsuit against another farmer, when one of their investigators begged seeds from him to help solve an erosion problem too late in the season to plant crops.
		Monsanto denies making profits from the misery of farmers and claims that proceeds go to agricultural school programmes, which some does, but by no means all.
	www.i-sis.org.uk /MonsantovsFarmers.php (1957 words)

	Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy \| For Land, Liberty, Jobs and Justice
		Since Monsanto has been a major and profitable producer of such materials, it needs to find substitutes to continue keeping its stockholders happy, while at the same time trying to convince the world that biotechnology is a safe and sane alternative.
		Monsanto was among those donating thousands of dollars in "soft money" to the Clinton 1996 election and which the President singled out for praise during his State of the Nation address in 1997.
		The family of a Monsanto employee who died of leukemia caused by exposure to benzene was awarded $108 million after a jury found that the company knew of the danger and failed to disclose the hazard.
	www.foodfirst.org /pubs/backgrdrs/1999/s99-v5-n2.html (3431 words)

	CorpWatch : Agent Orange Victims Sue Monsanto
		In June 2001 Monsanto was accused by farmers of Ninh Thuan province of pressuring them to use genetically modified seeds that resulted in corn and maize crop failures and economic ruin.
		Monsanto representatives responded with demands and threats urging the authorities to take action against by the state-run Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper (The New Worker) in Saigon, which printed a story about the farmers complaints, based on research done by social scientist Bui Dac Hai.
		The activists say that Monsanto has been assiduously cultivating technocrats inside the ministries of trade, investment and planning, who prefer to put the war totally behind them and believe that any campaign over Agent Orange undermines good trading relations with the US, and is therefore bad for business.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11638 (1545 words)

	Monsanto and Fox: Partners in Censorship - Center for Media and Democracy
		It is also cracks the facade that Monsanto has erected through a highly effective, multi-million-dollar PR offensive aimed at preventing the news media from reporting the views of rBGH critics.
		Immediately after FDA approval of rBGH, attorneys for Monsanto sued or threatened to sue stores and dairy companies that sold milk and dairy products advertised as being free of rBGH, to make sure that any dissenters within the well-organized food industry would be frightened into towing the industry line.
		It was a verdict that Monsanto's attorney made sure to mention in his letter to Roger Ailes.
	www.prwatch.org /prwissues/1998Q2/foxbgh.html (2698 words)

	Planet Ark : Monsanto withdraws GMO wheat from all but US FDA
		Monsanto had planned to commercialize the wheat for growth in Canada and the United States, but ran into opposition from export buyers who worried their consumers would reject it.
		Monsanto has said it would wait to resume work on the wheat, designed to resist applications of its Round Up weed killer, until other types of GMO wheat are commercialized.
		Monsanto withdrew all its feed, food and environmental safety regulatory applications in Canada, where the Canadian Wheat Board, which exports most of the country's wheat, had threatened to sue the company if it received approvals.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/25604/story.htm (752 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Press Releases: Monsanto sets its sights on European maize
		US-based biotech giant Monsanto is aiming to genetically modify all of Europe's maize over the next four years, a new report released today by Friends of the Earth reveals.
		In addition Monsanto is also aiming for one million acres of its soybeans to be planted in Europe [2].
		Monsanto continues to introduce aggressive royalty initiatives in South America to increase its profits.
	www.foe.co.uk /resource/press_releases/monsanto_sets_its_sights_o_10012006.html (580 words)

	GREENPEACE UK \| Environmental Issues \| GM Food \| Nuclear Power
		Now Monsanto says it may develop the technology after all - suggesting that it would use Terminator seeds in non-food crops such as cotton, tobacco, pharmaceutical crops and grass, and does not rule out other uses in the future.
		Monsanto's worrying change of policy comes to light as traditional farmers, indigenous peoples and their allies prepare to confront the biotech and seed industry in an escalating battle at the United Nations over the future of Terminator and other so-called Genetic Use Restriction Technologies.
		Monsanto's revised 'pledge' now reads: "Monsanto does not rule out the potential development and use of one of these technologies in the future.
	www.greenpeace.org.uk /contentlookup.cfm?CFID=5549295&CFTOKEN=92899718&ucidparam=20060223172909&MenuPoint=D-I-C (602 words)

	Monsanto—a major player in GE Technology - Global Issues
		Monsanto is primarily a chemical and pesticide company.
		In addition, in UK, it has emerged that a Monsanto Lobby firm is paying a key member of parliament thousands of pounds.
		It is not just Monsanto that has come under fire for its policies, but in fact the entire industry.
	www.globalissues.org /EnvIssues/GEFood/Monsanto.asp (1741 words)

	With new soybean, Monsanto reinvents age-old breeding game - The Campaign News, Forums and Networking
		Monsanto has touted the Vistive soybean as a scientific breakthrough because it is ready-made for processing into healthier food oils that are low in trans fats.
		Although Monsanto is known around the world for making genetically engineered plants - derided as "Frankenfood" by critics - it is focusing more than ever on developing new plants through breeding.
		Das runs Monsanto's crop analytics laboratory, where analysts test everything from the starch content of a corn kernel to the genetic map of a cotton plant.
	www.thecampaign.org /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=332 (1071 words)

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