Monsanto Company

Author : Carey Gillam
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642830569

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The Monsanto Papers by Carey Gillam Pdf

Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of the world’s most powerful corporate giants. But a workplace accident left Lee doused in a toxic chemical and facing a deadly cancer that turned his life upside down. In 2018, the world watched as Lee was thrust to the forefront of one the most dramatic legal battles in recent history. The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson’s landmark lawsuit against Monsanto. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn’t survive long enough to take the witness stand. For the eclectic band of young, ambitious lawyers representing him, it was a matter of professional pride and personal risk, with millions of dollars and hard-earned reputations on the line. For the public at large, the lawsuit presented a question of corporate accountability. With enough money and influence, could a company endanger its customers, hide evidence, manipulate regulators, and get away with it all—for decades? Readers will be astounded by the depth of corruption uncovered, captivated by the shocking twists, and moved by Lee’s quiet determination to see justice served. With gripping narrative force that reads like fiction, The Monsanto Papers takes readers behind the scenes of a grueling legal battle, pulling back the curtain on the frailties of the American court system and the lengths to which lawyers will go to fight corporate wrongdoing.

Author : Bartow J. Elmore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781324002055

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Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future by Bartow J. Elmore Pdf

An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm’s blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. Award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore shows how the Roundup story is just one of the troubling threads of Monsanto’s past, many told here and woven together for the first time. A company employee sitting on potentially explosive information who weighs risking everything to tell his story. A town whose residents are urged to avoid their basements because Monsanto’s radioactive waste laces their homes’ foundations. Factory workers who peel off layers of their skin before accepting cash bonuses to continue dirty jobs. An executive wrestling with the ethics of selling a profitable product he knew was toxic. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, Elmore traces Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products—including PCBs and Agent Orange—to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. Skyrocketing sales of Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready system stunned even those in the seed trade, who marveled at the influx of cash and lavish incentives into their sleepy sector. But as new data emerges about the Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore’s urgent history shows how our food future is still very much tethered to the company’s chemical past.

Author : Stuart Hart,Erik Simanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1616742720

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Monsanto Company (A) by Stuart Hart,Erik Simanis Pdf

This case explores Monsanto's sustainability-based strategy and subsequent transition from a chemical company to a giant in the life sciences, particularly in the area of biotechnology. There are five sections to this case 1) a survey of the sustainability challenges facing the agricultural sector, 2) an overview of the agbiotech industry, 3) a brief history of the Monsanto company, 4) a summary of Monsanto's sustainability initiatives and a description of its transition to life sciences, and 5) an overview of stakeholders' responses to the development of genetically modified crops.

Author : Stuart Hart,Erik Simanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1616744405

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Monsanto Company by Stuart Hart,Erik Simanis Pdf

Following two years of sustained controversy over its genetically modified crops and its plans for the future of biotechnology in agriculture, Monsanto must face the significant failure of a planned merger and a plummeting stock price. with market growth stagnant and strong public disapproval Monsanto must determine the path into the future for its life sciences division.

Author : Monsanto Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112107084961

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Annual Report by Monsanto Company Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781457815140

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Monsanto Company and Simpson Farm Enterprises, Inc.: Environmental Protection Agency Order On Motions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik Simanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Industrial management
ISBN : OCLC:48992788

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The Monsanto Company by Erik Simanis Pdf

Author : Jim Gerritsen
Publisher : Kettler Verlag
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Agent Orange
ISBN : 3862066576

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Monsanto by Jim Gerritsen Pdf

As a manufacturer of food and animal feed, seeds and chemical products, Monsanto is relentlessly developing and marketing new technologies. The monopoly it has arguably secured by dubious means bears no relation to its negligence with regard to potential risks. Particularly in light of the devastating consequences that are still causing suffering to people and the environment in many places, the company's self-portrayal as a forward-looking, omnipotent force for good seems cynical. The photographer Mathieu Asselin, who lives in France and Venezuela, has tried his hand at the daunting task of exploring the issues surrounding Monsanto. His investigative photographic study manages to capture the complexity of this topic, creating links between past, present and future and illuminating many different aspects from a variety of perspectives.

Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620974230

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Eating Tomorrow by Timothy A. Wise Pdf

"A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.

Author : Stuart Hart,Erik Simanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1616742747

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Monsanto Company (B) by Stuart Hart,Erik Simanis Pdf

Author : Gabriela Pechlaner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780292739451

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Corporate Crops by Gabriela Pechlaner Pdf

Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food is a contentious issue, the debates are usually limited to health and environmental concerns, ignoring the broader questions of social control that arise when food production methods become corporate-owned intellectual property. Drawing on legal documents and dozens of interviews with farmers and other stakeholders, Corporate Crops covers four case studies based around litigation between biotechnology corporations and farmers. Pechlaner investigates the extent to which the proprietary aspects of biotechnologies—from patents on seeds to a plethora of new rules and contractual obligations associated with the technologies—are reorganizing crop production. The lawsuits include patent infringement litigation launched by Monsanto against a Saskatchewan canola farmer who, in turn, claimed his crops had been involuntarily contaminated by the company's GM technology; a class action application by two Saskatchewan organic canola farmers launched against Monsanto and Aventis (later Bayer) for the loss of their organic market due to contamination with GMOs; and two cases in Mississippi in which Monsanto sued farmers for saving seeds containing its patented GM technology. Pechlaner argues that well-funded corporate lawyers have a decided advantage over independent farmers in the courts and in creating new forms of power and control in agricultural production. Corporate Crops demonstrates the effects of this intersection between the courts and the fields where profits, not just a food supply, are reaped.

Author : Bartow J. Elmore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393245936

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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism by Bartow J. Elmore Pdf

"Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola system—past and present." —Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company By examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of outsourcing and leveraged free public resources, market muscle, and lobbying power to build a global empire on the sale of sugary water. Coke became a giant in a world of abundance but is now embattled in a world of scarcity, its products straining global resources and fueling crises in public health.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788109243

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Monsanto Company by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Author : Emily Eaton
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 0887557449

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Growing Resistance by Emily Eaton Pdf

Growing Resistance is the remarkable story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto's genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies, Emily Eaton demonstrates how the inclusion of producer interests was integral to the coalition's success in voicing concerns about environmental implications, international market opposition to GMOs, and the lack of transparency and democracy in Canadian biotech policy and regulation. Growing Resistance is a fascinating study of the need to balance local and global concerns in activist movements and of the powerful forces vying for control of food production.

Author : Marie-Monique Robin
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781595585363

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The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin Pdf

An investigation of the massive agribusiness company, from a winner of the Rachel Carson Prize: “Well supported by wide-ranging scientific evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant—the world’s leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms)—and how its new “green” face is no less malign than its PCB- and Agent Orange–soaked past. Robin reports that, following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto is now marketing itself as a “life sciences” company, seemingly convinced about the virtues of sustainable development. However, Monsanto now controls the majority of the yield of the world’s genetically modified corn and soy—ingredients found in more than 95 percent of American households—and its alarming legal and political tactics to maintain this monopoly are the subject of worldwide concern. Released alongside the documentary film of the same name, The World According to Monsanto is sure to change the way we think about food safety and the corporate control of our food supply.