Monsanto

Monsanto   (Chemical weapon/Manufacturer)
Formation	1901
Founder	John Francis Queeny
Parent organization	Bayer AG
Headquarters	Creve Coeur, Missouri, U.S.
Type	commercial
Interests	Chemical warfare, GMO, Glyphosate
Interest of	Richard Doll, William Engdahl, Vandana Shiva
Subpage	•Monsanto/Board
Chemical weapon and GMO corporation

Misleading Advertising

In 2014, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of South Africa ordered Monsanto to immediately withdraw a radio advert which made unsubstantiated claims about GMO products, i.e. that GMOs enabled "Monsanto "to produce more food sustainably whilst using fewer resources; provide a healthier environment by saving on pesticides; decrease greenhouse gas emissions and increase crop yields substantially.”

Agent Orange

Full article: Agent Orange

Monsanto along with a number of other companies produced Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Vietnam.

Acquisition by Bayer

The acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer was successfully completed in June 2018.

 

An event carried out

Event	Description
Operation Ranch Hand	U.S. military herbicidal/chemical warfare operation during the Vietnam War

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Agent Orange	“For really almost 40 years, there has been a studious, concerted, planned effort to keep any study from being done and to discredit any study that has been done.”	Jeanne M. Stellman	2016
Big chemical	“It's the pesticide merchants and GMO companies....they are the real decision makers. They use lobbyist to shape national policy by almost buying politicians. It's this corruption that subverts the EPA. I am not a prophet, but I can see a very dark future if we fail to ban glyphosate and all other neurotoxins and carcinogens in or food and natural world.”	Evaggelos Vallinatos long time EPA scientist	2017
Big chemical	“We are convinced there are more than ample science to raise serious concerns over rising herbicide use and exposure, yet not nearly enough is being done to either dismiss such concerns or study them in a meaningful way. People think global warming is the biggest threat, but it's not. This is.”	Paul Winchester - medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Franciscan St. Francis Health Care in Indianapolis	2017
Mae-Wan Ho	“What makes genetic engineering biotechnology dangerous, in the first instance, is that it is an unprecedented, close alliance between two great powers that can make or break the world: science and commerce. Practically all established molecular geneticists have some direct or indirect connection with industry, which will set limits on what the scientists can and will do research on, not to mention the possibility of compromising their integrity as independent scientists. . The worst aspect of the alliance is that it is between the most reductionist science and multinational monopolistic industry at its most aggressive and exploitative. If the truth be told, it is bad science working together with big business for quick profit, aided and abetted by our governments for the banal reason that governments wish to be re-elected to remain in ‘power.’”	Mae-Wan Ho	1997
Vandana Shiva	“When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor in Africa and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, he’s pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns.”	Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva	“The gradual spread of sterility in seeding plants would result in a global catastrophe that could eventually wipe out higher life forms, including humans, from the planet.”	Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva	“If you look at the graph of the growth of G.M.O.s, the growth of application of glyphosate and autism, it’s literally a one-to-one correspondence. And you could make that graph for kidney failure, you could make that graph for diabetes, you could make that graph even for Alzheimer’s.”	Vandana Shiva

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Lawrence de Neufville	Overseas marketing manager of Chemstrand division	1963	1967

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:How Monsanto silences scientific dissent	commentary	3 December 2013	James Corbett
Document:Monsanto Exposed as Source for White Phosphorus Used in Gaza Massacre	article	6 February 2016	Justin Gardner	Evidence that the White phosphorous munitions used by Israel during their 'Operation Cast-Lead' action against Gaza in 2008-9 and in contravention of the Geneva Conventions, were supplied by Monsanto
Document:Monsanto and the mortal danger to traditional agriculture	webpage	20 August 2011	Siv O'Neall
Document:Open Letter on Retraction and Pledge to Boycott Elsevier	open letter	4 December 2013	Institute of Science in Society
Document:Retracting Séralini Study Violates Science and Ethics	article	4 December 2013	Mae-Wan Ho Peter Saunders
Document:The Great Seed Robbery	webpage	21 August 2011	Vandana Shiva
File:Glyphosate Worse than We Could Imagine Engdahl.pdf	article	27 April 2019	William Engdahl	This article summarizes some recent developments about Glyphosate (Bayer/Monsanto).

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