The Pros And Cons Of Monsanto's Economic Responsibility

Author Elizabeth Kucinichstates, wrote Monsanto: The Enemy Of Family Farmers, which states, “Monsanto is no friend to the family farmer or the communities they live in and support. In fact, Monsanto (and other chemical companies like Dow Chemical, Syngenta, BASF, Pioneer/Dupont, and Bayer) have forced small farmers into a dying breed. The cost of industrial agriculture forces farmers to get big or get out. This is particularly true of GE herbicide-resistant seeds, which USDA economists tell us have contributed to increased consolidation of farmland in fewer hands” (par. 5). Seed is especially too expensive and complex for family farmers, which is why farmers should be able to reuse the seed that they

Monsanto’s was founded by John F. Queeny in 1901in St. Louis, MO. The first product for the company was artificial sweetener. This open the door for many years of success for the company. The most controversial product that the company produced was called Agent Orange. This product was used doing the Vietnam War. The purpose of the product was to clear some of the foliage in the jungles of Vietnam. The product contained dioxin which was harmful to the U.S. Military Personnel fighting the Vietnam War. Monsanto made a large class action settlement for harm done to the soldiers. That has been the ethical dilemma for Monsanto’s for a long time.

Ethical issues remain relevant aspects for businesses operation and competitiveness. The elements aforesaid ensure that every firm has what it takes to connect well with the community to provide consistent market and productive relationship with other stakeholders. Monsanto Company that was in a tussle with the community over the production of the genetically modified products that seemed detrimental to the society responded by creating awareness to the people about the need for sustainable farming practices (Carroll, 2015). The company notified farmers that the world population was increasingly going up thus a need for sustainable agricultural practices. The company

According to Natural Society, people like Hugh Grant, and Bill Gates who own millions of shares in Monsanto stock are not the real owners of Monsanto. The main owners of Monsanto are institutions. The leading institution for Monsanto is a company is called the Vanguard group. Vanguard owns 3 trillion dollars in investments in different companies like Monsanto. Additionally, they own such companies as Bank of America, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, and others. Employees of Monsanto seem to be interested in agriculture. Most of the employees are scientist, and agricultural experts. Employees enjoy working with farmers, and enjoy generating new ideas. Every project that is worked on inspires innovation allowing Monsanto, to stay on the cutting edge,

Monsanto is a company, which is selling genetically modified seeds and herbicides. The company claims that the GMO's have no health hazards. By showing the facts that the most GMO's are resistant to pest and pesticides, the company tried to reach a worldwide status.

The company also creates seeds that can’t reproduce, forcing farmers who purchase their seeds to continually buy from Monsanto year after year. Farmers who discover a way to ‘save seeds’ by enabling their crops to reproduce are routinely sued by Monsanto for breach of contract. Farmers have to sign a clause in their contracts that give Monsanto the right to sue them if they reproduce food from the previous years’ crops.

Monsanto has neglected to do their due diligence to protect the American people. Currently, they supply a weed killer called Roundup, that is poisoning both the environment and the American people. Monsanto is not required to disclose what ingredients are in Roundup, but one of the known ingredients is glyphosate, a possible carcinogen. While plants may be ready for this chemical introduction, humans are not. This chemical is potentially dangerous to people as it often ends up in our water sources, poisoning the fish in our food chain. While the potential dangers of Roundup are not known, that of previous Monsanto products are known. Monsanto helped to create the Atomic bomb that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are no other words to describe the outcome of that bomb but devastating.

Monsanto is controlling the farmers and manipulating organic farmers to use their patented seeds and artificial growth hormone to increase production. As, Troy Roush, VP of American Corn Growers Association explains “In the case of Monsanto their control is so dominant, if you want to be in production agriculture, you’re going to be in bed with Monsanto (Food Inc 1:15:40-1:15-48). Monsanto should not have the right to control what the farmers can and cannot do. Monsanto has induced politician and the government to abdicate their responsibility to protect consumers through funding their campaign and heavy lobbying. As Michael Pollan clarifies “For the last 25 years, our government has been dominated by the industries that it was meant to be regulating” (1:17:07-1:17:13). The consumers and farmers should be the ones deciding and voting on the farming practices, not congress or large seed industries. I believe the farmers should reject to use Monsanto’s seeds and have the right to save, clean and reuse the seeds from their harvests. It should be unacceptable and illegal for the government to change ancient agricultural farming; hence we would have a healthy food chain. Government and congress should focus on the interest of consumers and farmers and not be conquered by large companies. The government needs to revisit the seed patenting law and sign an agreement of the

In my opinion, we should be most concered about India's privitized agriculture and Indian farmers. I believe this because in the last decade more than 250,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide due to the expense put on Monsanto's seeds and pesticides. A problem with the seeds can also be so they are not bred for that area, so they fail more fequently, causing even more stress on farmers. The bigger organizations also use biotech cotton seeds which gives them a higher yeild but also requires higher amounts of water, which they have the funds for. However the smaller companies don't have acess to suitable irrigation and have mainly rain-fed crops, which means they fail more often and the farmers suffer even more. Monsanto's high cost of

Monsanto and other companies profit at the expense of hard working farmers across by disallowing seed saving and enforcing their patents with private investigators.

Racism is defined as a belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race. Racism is prevalent throughout the entire novel, but catches the readers’ attention when Tom Robinsons is accused of rape. Throughout the entire novel Harper puts Scout into situations where she gets to experience racism first hand. Scout is very interested in their black employee Calpurnia, and even attends church with her once. Scout also sees just how prevalent racism is when she finds out that Mr. Raymond pretends to be a drunk so that people do not question his decision to marry a black woman.

Companies, like Monsanto will come after small farms and sue them for more than they can pay if they find out they are using even a small portion of GM crops in their fields, even if by accident” (Fitzgerald). Approximately 2,400 farmers in 19 states through 2006 were sued and spied upon for alleged “seed piracy”, Monsanto has an annual budget of $10 million dollars and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and prosecuting farmers who are caught with different seed. (Monsanto).

A company known as Monsanto has been terrorizing the farm land for many years. This company in all honesty cares nothing about the environment. When Monsanto first crawled out of the mud, they were strictly making chemicals. The chemicals that Monsanto has created wreaked havoc on the country side of the United States of America. Many towns are still cleaning up the mess from twenty years ago that Monsanto caused. Now Monsanto has G.M. seeds that will not be affected by pesticides. While this is a good idea, the way Monsanto goes about their transactions is terrifying for farmers. Monsanto hires people whom the farmers refer to them as seed police, or the mafia. They scare farmers into buying their seeds and they threaten to take everything from the farmers if they don’t settle with Monsanto. Monsanto has made farmers live in fear, scared that one day the “mafia” would come for them. It is completely messed

Monsanto is a company that some people may not be explicitly familiar with on a first name basis. However, the work that the company has done over the last century, with a larger emphasis on its most recent ventures, have been deeply engrained in our lives, our food, and our economy. Monsanto has those who advocate on their behalf in addition to their naysayers. While Monsanto has made huge strides in terms of biotechnology over the last couple of decades, their accomplishments, and the relevant methods, have not been free of criticism and controversy. In order to analyze Monsanto’s corporate environment, it is important to first explore their Strengths, Weaknesses,

I personally know many farmers who barely make it by without even having to pay for more seeds every single harvest season. Monsanto is very wrong for making farmers pay for their seeds every year and reusing seeds. If that is not bad enough, those who break the rules are sued by Monsanto. Even worse than that, the courts and judges are taking the side of Monsanto, but I will save that for a different time. Countries as a whole should not allow Monsanto to sue farmers for reusing seeds or refusing to pay, especially in countries where farming is a big part of the economy or the country was built on farming. Ever since 1901 when Monsanto was built, farming has been changed drastically in positive and negative ways. Monsanto is continuously digging a bigger whole by punishing more farmers and blaming the farmers as if they are the one at fault in the situation. Many farmers are taking a stand against Monsanto’s tricks and games. There are many petitions online to stop Monsanto from suing more farmers and even stop their company altogether. Though there are many people and groups trying to stop their company, Monsanto is a very large empire in our society. This meaning, it would be very hard for their company to be brought done, almost like them completely breaking a law.