Jeremy Scahill write in the Nation about Blackwater’s Black Ops: Blackwater, through Total Intelligence, sought to become the “intel arm” of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm. What’s the connection between Total Intelligence Solutions and Blackwater, the company famous for its activities as a military contractor […]
Illustrating access at the highest levels of government, a representative from Monsanto meets with Alan García, president of Peru: García is the large man sitting in front of the flag. The Monsanto rep. is the short man sitting to García’s left. It’s not clear when this meeting took place, but it may have been the […]
Jimmy Mengel EPA Slaps Monsanto with Record Fine, Million Dollar Settlement the Largest in Series of Penalties: The agricultural giant was found to have been selling genetically modified cotton seeds without labeling them as such. Between 2002 and 2007, Monsanto’s seeds were illegally sold in several Texas counties where the seeds are explicitly banned. The […]
Monsanto’s stock price is down almost $4, or more than 7% today. Why? ST. LOUIS, May 27, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON – News) today announced it is repositioning its Roundup® business in the face of fundamental structural changes that have caused upheaval in the glyphosate industry. Focusing its glyphosate products on supporting the […]
Beverly Bell writes in truthout that Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds: In an open letter sent May 14, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, the executive director of MPP and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP), called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti “a very strong attack on […]
According to The Organic and Non-GMO Report, April 2010 : At least seven US state attorneys general are investigating whether Monsanto Company has abused its market power to lock out competitors and raise prices on seed. Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and two other unidentified states are in a working group to investigate the biotech […]
More on some welcome news,, this time from William Neuman in the New York Times: The Justice Department began an antitrust investigation of the seed industry last year, with an apparent focus on Monsanto, which controls much of the market for the expensive bioengineered traits that make crops resistant to insect pests and herbicides. Why? […]
Tom Laskawy wonders in Grist about Peak Monsanto? Quoting The Organic & Non-GMO Report: Low commodity soybean prices, attractive premiums, and rising prices for genetically modified soybean seed are leading American farmers to plant more acres of non-GMO soybeans this year. Representatives with soybean associations, universities, and grain buyers all say that demand for non-GMO […]
The answer in 1939 turns out to be about the same as in 2010: minority shares by its own executives, and the majority by, well: Last week’s survey of stockholders—lavish to the point of including pictures of “typical” Monsanto stockholders in the “typical” city of Cincinnati—was frankly designed to prove that Monsanto is not owned […]
Well, it’s a start, as reported by Jack Kaskey for BusinessWeek, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Soybeans Probed by Justice (Update4), Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed producer, said the U.S. Justice Department formally requested information on its herbicide-tolerant soybean seed business as part of an investigation. The Justice Department issued a civil […]