When you’re good at something, you want to leverage that. Monsanto’s specialty is killing stuff. In the early years, the St. Louis biotech giant helped pioneer such leading chemicals as DDT, PCBs and ...
When it comes to agriculture, the World Food Prize is the equivalent of the Oscars. This year, the prestigious award went the mastermind behind Monsanto's big move into genetically modified crops. In ...
Founded in 1901, Monsanto was a major producer of plastics by the 1940s. It also manufactured products such as DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange and bovine growth hormone. Monsanto was among the first to ...
Monsanto has said it endorses labeling genetically modified foods in the European Union, where consumers have demanded it. But in the U.S., Monsanto and its competitors have clearly taken a different ...
Anyone and everyone who is even slightly into food, politics, or government conspiracy theories has at least heard something about Monsanto. Whether it’s the company’s development of Agent Orange or ...
Ever heard of the Nobel Prize? Those highly prestigious awards that are handed out to individuals who have made remarkable headway in cultural or scientific advances. You know, people who do something ...
Part I: One of the great polluters of industrial history. PCBs : white collar crime -- Dioxin : a polluter working with the Pentagon -- Dioxin : manipulation and corruption -- Roundup, a massive ...
Monsanto (NYSE:MON) and Danish enzyme maker Novozymes (OTCPK:NVZMF) are joining forces in attempting to unlock the potential from the latest trend in farming: using nature’s own organisms to boost ...
Perhaps the single most visible scientific study used to demonstrate possible health risks associated with consuming food produced by or containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, has been ...
DAVENPORT -- At least 100 Quad-Citians braved Saturday's wet chill to "March Against Monsanto" to call attention to the biotech giant and its role in genetically modified (GMO) crops. The march here ...
As Election Day approaches, the biotechnology and food industries are looking anxiously westward to California, where a ballot measure that would require labels on genetically modified foods will go ...