What Makes The Monsanto Company Didn 't Start Off As An Agricultural Company?

In this day and age it is probably not incorrect to assume that we have all heard the term genetically modified. While we may not all know what it means, it’s easy to find ourselves reaching for the “Non GMO” products on our grocery store shelves because they somehow seem like privileges. So what is the difference between regular crops like cotton, corn, soybeans and canola that have or haven’t been genetically tampered with and who is in control of that tampering? GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) products are those that have been taken into a lab and altered genetically in a way that could not happen naturally for the convenience of mass use. Monsanto is the largest genetically modified seed provider in the world, producing the bulk of

Monsanto had a legal patent for Roundup, which makes it impossible for other companies to create

The seed police at Monsanto’s are in place to going after growers who reuse its seeds' technology. The seed police are in place to protect the investment of the company. Farmers have also criticized Monsanto for its aggressive efforts to identify unauthorized Roundup growers. In an attempt to crack down on seed piracy, Monsanto employs private investigators who conduct random farm audits and collect crop samples from the fields of alleged violators (Cross, 2000). To solidify its case against Schmeiser, Monsanto investigators entered the farmer's fields without his consent and collected crop samples without his permission. Monsanto’s is no stranger to the legal system. Most of their legal troubles deal with bribery and patents. Monsanto was

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.

For a while now, the food that we consume has been generated through a far more complicated process than we had ever thought. Genetically Modified Organisms is the process by which food is being altered and grown in ways that do not occur naturally. Farming practices have been altered from organic to majorly GMO, in order to accommodate this highly profitable industry as well as the high demand by the citizens. GMOs allow food to grow faster, act as a bug repellant, and also cause the product to grow bigger in size in a short time span. We have for the most part stopped relying on local farmers and organic product to know depending on what is most convenient to us. With grocery stores being so readily available with anything you could possibly think of, or ask for, it would be hard to pass this convenience up.

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Yes, Monsanto is a large company that has greatly taken advantage of this advancement in science to make an economic gain; however, with the research presented it shows that Monsanto is not ultimately manipulating these crops to make a profit. Monsanto is truly trying to hone in on the struggles that the average American farmer is facing by using the knowledge that scientists have gained through studying GMO’s and using this very knowledge to help improve the health, agriculture, and economy of the United States of America on a whole. Are some of these methods questionable? Yes, but at least Monsanto is gradually trying to improve these aforementioned aspects of the country. All in all, Monsanto is not merely a company that is monopolizing agriculture as it was posed in the documentary, but is a company that is trying to figure out the solutions to the various problems that farmers and society are currently

The Monsanto Company is an agricultural business whose main focus is the development and sale of Genetically Modified Organisms. In 1996, the United States Department of Agriculture allowed Monsanto Company to begin field testing their newly developed Genetically Modified soybean

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).

Monsanto makes money by selling their genetically altered seeds to farmers. The farmers sign an contract that says they are not allowed to save and replant those seeds sold to them next year. Sometimes, a farmer might save some seeds for next year, in which case Monsanto finds out, and sues them (Why Does Monsanto Sue Farmers?). Sometimes, genetically modified material from Monsanto accidentally ends up in a farmers field. Regardless of intention, Monsanto will still sue. This is because of a law that allows companies to patent genetic alterations. With its patents, Monsanto and companies like it basically own these small business farmers. If there were no genetic modifications, the farmers would be free to farm normal seeds, without having to sell their soul for debatably better

Monsanto is one of the largest conglomerates in the world with ties to the food industries in most countries. Their GMO corn and soy have been at one time planted on

Monsanto’s history and lack of accountability is long. For instance, in 1996, Monsanto began its widespread sales of

Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMO’s, are organisms that have had genes from a different organism implanted into their own genetic code in order to produce a new result (“Genetically engineered foods”). This practice has elicited polar responses across the globe, for a multitude of reasons. Besides the obvious reason, being the morality of changing an organism's DNA for human benefit, one frequently noted problem is the monopolization of GMO’s by the company Monsanto, whose name is nearly synonymous with GMO’s due to their involvement with these crops. Monsanto has been at the center of many controversies regarding GMO’s, and is even considered to be ranked third to last for reputation among all major American companies (Bennett). Most

Although it is safe to say that GMOs do hurt human life and the environment, it is also necessary to acknowledge the pros in having genetically modified foods. It is believed that farmers would be able to spend less money producing more food organically because of GMOs. The cost of the technology used in plowing fields would drop drastically if crops were to be modified. Likewise, farmers would have bigger yields to land and be able to use less herbicides and

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