Who is Monsanto & Whats Happened to the Environmental Movement?
Posted 5/27/05 Part 1 – WHO IS “MONSANTO” The name “Monsanto” means many different things to many different people. It’s an estate in Italy that produces a world class Chianti. It’s a small, scenic Portuguese village. It was the maiden name of John Francis Queeny’s wife, Olga, that he bestowed on his startup manufacturing company in 1901. Over its 105-year existence, Monsanto, the mid-western manufacturing company founded by the chemistry-minded man with a scant six years of formal education, has played a central role in the history of the United States and the world if for no other reason than to prove that profit did indeed lie in science. Today, Monsanto is the beacon for agricultural biotechnology providing farmers with countless varieties of hybrid crops that increase yield, defy poor weather and worse soil, combat disease and pests with a modicum of pesticide applications and bring profits to farmers of marginal Third World lands where traditional crops barely covered costs. From
