Monsanto

Monsanto is arguably the most controversial corporation in the entire world. They call themselves a “sustainable agriculture company” and they have done a lot to try to sell this image to the public eye as well as farmers across the globe. This company has an immoral past and a present that is as equally crooked. Monsanto is corrupt and immoral because of the harmful products it sells, it’s control on the United States Government (both local and federal), and it’s monopoly of corporate farming.

John Francis Queeny founded Monsanto on November 30th, 1901 with today’s equivalent of about $57,000. Queeny named Monsanto after his wife, Olga Monsanto Queeny. The St. Louis, Missouri based company started off as a producer of saccharine. Saccharine is an artificial sweetener better known by it’s many brand names like Sweet-N-Low and Necta Sweet. In the 1920s and 1930s Monsanto started to expand arsenal of products and started producing chemicals like sulfuric acid and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB).

Polychlorinated biphenyl is an organic compound that belongs to a largely varied family of man-made chemicals. PCBs were domestically manufactured starting in 1929 by Monsanto under the name Aroclor. This product was widely used and was available in different concentrations in order to cater to different was that this product could be utilized. Polychlorinated biphenyl is non-flammable, chemically stable, equipped with a high boiling point, and has electrical insulating properties. All of these things combined makes it great to use in electrical boxes, hydraulic equipment, paint, plastics, oil, and a multitude of other things.

The problem with PCBs is that they are one of the most toxic chemicals known to humanity. Aroclor and other PCB bra...

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...r the Food and Drug Administration, said “GMO regulations were based on politics rather than science.” He went on to agree that the “Principle of Substantial Equivalence” was created so that Monsanto could pump out their products as soon as possible.

When he was Vice President, George Bush Sr. visited Monsanto. He took a tour of their facility. This in itself is not suspicious but during a video recording by the press documenting the visit shows an alarming feat of evidence. Vice President George Bush Sr. said “Call me, were in the ‘dereg’ business.” to a Monsanto scientist. Context to this statement adds that VP Bush Sr. was talking about allowing Monsanto scientist to launch their new product even faster than they were able to before. The Monsanto scientist replied with “No complaints so far!.. If we have to wait until September, we might say something different.”