Monsanto

About

Monsanto is one of the largest producers of agricultural chemicals and genetically engineered foods. They were also one of the early manufacturers of plastics and the first company to mass produce light-emitting diodes.

Pages

• Fox News/BGH scandal: Two Fox News reporters were fired for trying to report on the health effects of Monsanto milk.

Links

Official

• home page
  • Food Safety «Opponents of GM crops often describe them as "untested" and "unsafe." This is simply untrue.»

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia
• dKosopedia: no equivalent page as of 2013-05-26
• SourceWatch
  • Goliath and David: Monsanto's Legal Battles against Farmers
• Center for Food Safety

Documents

• Bowman v. Monsanto:
  • 2012-12-10 Center for Food Safety brief in support of Bowman
  • 2013-05-13 the decision

News (to file)

• 2005-01-24 Monsanto Purchases World's Largest Vegetable Seed Company "Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) announced today that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seminis, Inc., for $1.4 billion in cash and assumed debt..."
• 2011-01-04 AP: Monsanto Strong-Arms Seed Industry "Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found."
• 2011-01-27 The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? "In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto's Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation's 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America's organic consumers and producers are facing betrayal. A self-appointed cabal of the Organic Elite, spearheaded by Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, has decided it's time to surrender to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies have publicly admitted that they no longer oppose the mass commercialization of GE crops, such as Monsanto's controversial Roundup Ready alfalfa, and are prepared to sit down and cut a deal for "coexistence" with Monsanto and USDA biotech cheerleader Tom Vilsack."
  • This article may be misrepresenting the situation; see comments here.
• 2012-01-12 KILLER SEEDS: The Devastating Impacts of Monsanto's Genetically Modified Seeds in India
• 2012-04-27 Ingram Gets His Day In Court - Three Weeks Late
  • 2013-05-24 Illinois illegally seizes Bees Resistant to Monsanto's Roundup; Kills remaining Queens
• 2012-06-05 5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion "Monsanto has been reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous royalty charges. The farmers state that Monsanto has been unfairly gathering exorbitant profits each year on a global scale from "renewal" seed harvests, which are crops planted using seed from the previous year's harvest."
• 2013-02-19 How One 75-Year-Old Soybean Farmer Could Deal A Blow To Monsanto's Empire Today
• 2013-03-14 'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress
• 2013-03-27 [www.salon.com/2013/03/27/how_the_monsanto_protection_act_snuck_into_law/ How the Monsanto Protection Act snuck into law]
• 2013-05-13 Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case: Bowman v. Monsanto
• 2013-05-14 New cables 'expose' US govt lobbies worldwide for Monsanto, other GMO corps
• 2013-05-15 U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Monsanto, Rules Against Farmers: Bowman v. Monsanto
• 2013-05-19 Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
• 2013-05-25 How to Really March Against Monsanto by Rachael Ludwick
  • discussion with the author and others
• 2013-05-26
  • The March Against Monsanto - a portrait of rebellion from around the world: photos of the day of protests
  • Exclusive: Facebook censors pictures of children rallying against GMOs during global March Against Monsanto
• 2013-05-31
  • Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe
  • Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe
• 2013-06-03
  • Monsanto's Deception Game on GMO in Europe: «Right now the media is flooded with reports that Monsanto has stopped the marketing of GMO seeds in Germany and the EU. That is not correct...»
    • note: "Roundup herbicide [...] by license agreement with farmers must be sold paired with all Monsanto GMO seeds..."
    • commentary: Cindy Brown and others
      • "Veterans Today is a 9/11 truther site funded, apparently, by the Iranian government. (Its publisher is an analyst for Iranian state television, anyway.) It alternates between conspiracy theories and rabid anti-semitism, and pretty regularly engages in Holocaust denial."
  • Who's afraid of the big bad GMO?
    • commentary: Woozle
• 2013-06-05 Monsanto Testing Indicates GMO Wheat Discovery Is Isolated
• 2013-06-14 Why Does Monsanto Need an Army of Mercenary Soldiers?: Monsanto's relationship with Blackwater
• 2013-06-29 Yes, Monsanto Actually DID Buy the BLACKWATER Mercenary Group! "Xe (now Academi) has, indeed, been purchased, and while there's no way of DOCUMENTING who the new owners really are, the logical conclusion would be that Monsanto, who had been employing them prior to the sale are the new owners."

Notes

2008

• Monsanto Terminator Technology -- Worldwide Famine & Starvation: no date; any other sources for this information?
• http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805 - describes an early incident of Monsanto threatening to sue a farmer for planting their seed (even though he wasn't a farmer and didn't even come into contact with any)

2012

• http://worldtruth.tv/monsanto-found-guilty-of-chemical-poisoning-in-landmark-case/
• http://www.trueactivist.com/kenya-bans-all-gmo-monsantos-foods/
• http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/australias-1st-legal-attack-on-monsanto-for-gmo-contamination-of-organic-crops/
• http://ogs-silentcrimes.blogspot.com/2012/11/scientist-many-pro-gmo-corporate.html - scientists in bed with Monsanto
• http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gm-food-banned-in-monsanto-canteen-737948.html
• http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/do-gm-crops-increase-yield.aspx - Monsanto "debunks" several anti-GMO articles
• https://plus.google.com/100520148877423056661/posts/cnxjWAEEXZM - how Monsanto has devastated agriculture
• http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/technology-and-supply-chain/monsanto-weedkiller-and-gm-maize-in-shocking-cancer-study/232603.article
• http://truth-out.org/news/item/11111-trade-group-funded-by-monsanto-creates-childrens-book
• http://www.disinfo.com/2012/08/walmart-to-sell-unlabeled-gmo-corn-from-monsanto/
• http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/12/30/monsanto-declared-worst-company-of-2011/
• http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2012/08/monsanto-loses-to-beekepers-of-yucatan-peninsula/
• http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/12408-focus-former-monsanto-employee-exposes-fraud
• http://www.alternet.org/food/156195/the_%27monsanto_rider%27%3A_are_biotech_companies_about_to_gain_immunity_from_federal_law/
  • http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/12295-focus-is-monsanto-about-to-gain-immunity-from-federal-law
• http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2012/07/09/monsanto-slammed-with-up-to-7-5-billion-in-fees-to-farmers/
• http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/monsanto-seed-police/2036 "Seventy-five family farmers, seed businesses, and agricultural organizations representing over 300,000 individuals and 4,500 farms filed a a brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. asking the appellate court to reverse a lower court's decision from February dismissing their protective legal action against agricultural giant Monsanto's patents on genetically engineered seed."
• http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/05/monsanto-roundup-effects-on-honeybees.aspx
• http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/12295-focus-is-monsanto-about-to-gain-immunity-from-federal-law
  • repost: http://mysticpolitics.com/wtf-monsanto-to-gain-immunity-from-federal-law/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/28/monsanto-lawsuit-organic-farmers-appeal_n_1385693.html
• http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/monsanto-poisons-hawaii/2032
• http://bit.ly/LpDVCz - Monsanto in Paraguay
• http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/11094-blamed-for-bee-collapse-monsanto-buys-leading-bee-research-firm
  • http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-bee-collapse-buys-bee-research-firm/
• http://www.trueactivist.com/hungary-destroys-all-monsanto-gmo-corn-fields/
  • https://plus.google.com/116987987149730551614/posts/Wj341Yqyzq8
• http://infofeeder.info/latest-information/153476-blatant-corruption-exposed-as-eu-blocks-frances-ban-on-monsantos-gmo-maize-david-icke
• http://www.nationofchange.org/mexican-farmers-block-monsanto-law-privatize-plants-and-seeds-1337785224
• http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/monsantos_college_strangehold/
• http://www.alternet.org/world/155376/africa%27s_frankenfoods%3A_monsanto_and_the_gates_foundation_push_genetic_modification_technology_in_kenya
• http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/%e2%80%98no-food-rights%e2%80%99-judge-quits-to-work-for-monsanto-law-firm/
• http://www.naturalnews.com/035105_Bill_Gates_Monsanto_eugenics.html
• http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/189 - Evil, Inc. (Percy Schmeiser v. Monsanto)
• http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/04/10/45469.htm Monsanto and Big Tobacco Blamed for Birth Defects
• http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/roundup-ready-plus-monsanto-capitalizes-superweeds-it-created.html
• http://www.occupymonsanto360.org/2012/04/06/poland-announces-complete-ban-on-monsantos-genetically-modified-maize/
• http://www.alternet.org/story/154855/monsanto_threatens_to_sue_vermont_if_legislators_pass_a_bill_requiring_gmo_food_to_be_labeled?page=entire (alt)
  • https://rt.com/usa/news/monsanto-sue-gmo-vermont-478/
• http://www.trueactivist.com/monsanto-shareholder-meeting-infiltrated-by-activist/
• http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321268 US government approves Monsanto seed experiment across America
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314170511.htm - honeybees and Monsanto
• http://www.croplife.com/article/26329/union-of-concerned-scientists-allege-monsanto-misconduct-
• http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-02/news/31115871_1_monsanto-hacking-group-food-supply
• http://tribune.com.pk/story/345886/agricultural-punjab-rebuffs-monsanto-attempt-to-sell-bt-cotton-seeds-to-farmers/
• http://www.naturalnews.com/035048_Monsanto_lawsuit_intellectual_property.html#ixzz1nDXcDDrn

Proposition 37

• http://www.alternet.org/food/michael-pollan-californias-prop-37-fight-label-gmos-could-galvanize-growing-us-food-movement
• http://naturalsociety.com/end-of-monsanto-prop-37-succeeding-nations-ban-gmo-crops/
  • http://organicconsumersfund.org/label/prop-37-funders.cfm
• http://www.naturalnews.com/037913_vote_fraud_Proposition_37_election.html
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2012/11/07/prop-37-fails-scientists-cheer/

2013

• http://www.ibtimes.com/furor-growing-against-obama-over-monsanto-protection-act-1156459
• http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/farmers_and_food_safety_advocates_lead_monsanto_backlash_partner/
• http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/senate_appropriations_chair_disavows_monsanto_protection_act/

• • http://gmo-awareness.com/2011/05/12/monsanto-dirty-dozen/

• http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/28/conservatives-laugh-as-liberals-attack-president-over-non-existent-monsanto-protection-act/

• • http://inhabitat.com/monsanto-has-sued-hundreds-of-small-farmers-heads-to-the-supreme-court/
    • Bowman v. Monsanto:
      • http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bowman-v-monsanto-co/
      • http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/02/bowman-monsanto/
    • http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seed-Giants_final.pdf
      • "As of December 2012, Monsanto had filed 142 alleged seed patent infringement lawsuits involving 410 farmers and 56 small farm businesses in 27 states, which recently led one judge to brand the company "incredibly litigious"."
      • "Instead of saving seed for replanting, farmers are now constrained to purchasing a combination "cropping system" comprised of high-cost GE seed and the herbicide to which the seed is resistant." ... "Upon purchase, farmers are required to sign lengthy contracts known as "technology use agreements." The contracts prohibit farmers from saving seeds and, among many other intrusive prohibitions, allow companies to access the farmers' records held by third parties, such as the US government." (p. 10 aka "6")
      • Monsanto also sued a seed-cleaner for "aiding and abetting" IP "theft" by cleaning seeds for replanting, among which were (unbeknownst to him) some GM seeds which were not legally re-plantable. (ibid.)
    • Organic Seed Growers & Trade Ass'n v. Monsanto Co.
      • http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/28/us-monsanto-lawsuit-idUSTRE81Q1PN20120228 - judge claimed there were no actual incidents of Monsanto suing farmers for "volunteer" GM seed
      • http://gmo-journal.com/2013/02/05/farming-groups-take-on-goliath-in-court/
      • http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-organic-farmers-lose-right-protect-crops
      • http://www.dailytech.com/Monsanto+Defeats+Small+Farmers+in+Critical+Bioethics+Class+Action+Suit/article24118.htm
  • http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/pubs/CFSMOnsantovsFarmerReport1.13.05.pdf
    • «Monsanto's genetically engineered canola was found on Schmeiser's land, but it is undisputed that he neither purchased nor planted the company's seed. For seven years Schmeiser fought to prove that the seed arrived on his land through genetic drift or from trucks carrying seed to grain elevators.» ... «Schmeiser was found guilty of patent infringement yet not liable to pay Monsanto any damages.»
      • Monsanto's response «The truth is Percy Schmeiser is not a hero. He's simply a patent infringer who knows how to tell a good story.» Oh, fuck you.
      • http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=percy_schmeiser
  • http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/monsanto-wins-lawsuit-against-indiana-soybean-farmer
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto-sues-farmers-seed-patents
  • debate: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116951145888391044655/posts/ZEPTCCyrbDq

• http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-margaret-thatcher-destroyed-public.html - it was profitable as a government enterprise; sold to Unilever, then Monsanto
• http://truth-out.org/news/item/15744-monsanto-wins-patent-battle-with-dupont-to-seize-full-rights-of-gm-seed-patents

There was a claim in 2010 that Blackwater had effectively become an arm of Monsanto, leading to at least one report that Blackwater had been sold to Monsanto, but there doesn't seem to be any confirmation of this.