Monsanto

Monsanto Company Inc.

Type

Public

Traded as

NYSE: MON
S&P 500 Component

Industry

Agribusiness

Founded

St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. (1901)

Founder(s)

John Francis Queeny

Headquarters

Creve Coeur, Missouri, U.S.

Key people

Hugh Grant

(Chairman, President and CEO)

Products

Herbicides, pesticides, crop seeds

Revenue

US$ 11.822 billion (FY 2011)[1]

Operating income

US$ 2.502 billion (FY 2011)[1]

Net income

US$ 1.659 billion (FY 2011)[1]

Total assets

US$ 19.844 billion (FY 2011)[1]

US$ 11.716 billion (FY 2011)[1]

Total equity

Employees

20,600 (August 2011)[2]

Website

Monsanto.com

Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a publicly traded American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation
headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.[3][4] It is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and of
the herbicide glyphosate, which it markets under the Roundup brand.[5] Founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, by the 1940's it
was a major producer of plastics, includingpolystyrene and synthetic fibers. Notable achievements by Monsanto and its scientists as
a chemical company included breakthrough research on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation and being the first company to massproduce light emitting diodes (LEDs). The company also formerly manufactured controversial products such as the
insecticide DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, and recombinant bovine somatotropin.
Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell, along with three academic teams, which was announced in
1983,[6] and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops, which it did in 1987. It remained one of the top
10 U.S. chemical companies until it divested most of its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a process of
mergers and spin-offs that focused the company on biotechnology.
Monsanto was a pioneer in applying the biotechnology industry business model, developed by Genentech and other biotech drug
companies in the late 1970s in California,[7] to agriculture. In this business model, companies invest heavily in research and develop
and recoup the expenses through the use and enforcement of biological patents.[8][9][10][11] Monsanto's application of this model to
agriculture, along with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system of plant breeders' rights in the 1980s, came into
direct conflict with customary practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop plant varieties.[12] Its seed patenting model has
also been criticized as biopiracy and a threat to biodiversity.[13][14][15] Monsanto even sues innocent farmers whose frankenseeds
cross polinated with theirs, which is not preventable for nearby crops. Monsanto of course has to illegally trespass and steal parts of
people's crops to test them too.
Monsanto's role in these changes in agriculture (which include its litigation and its seed commercialization practices [16]), its current
and former agbiotech products, its lobbying of government agencies, and its history as a chemical company, have made Monsanto
controversial.
Contents
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1 History

1.1 Spin-offs and mergers

2 Corporate governance

3 Critics

3.1 US government promotion

3.2 Seed Regulation in the European Union

4 Gallery

5 Multimedia

6 See also

7 References

8 External links

History

The Sephardic Jewess, Olga Mendez Monsanto was married to Monsanto founder Queeny.

The people who run Monsanto also run the US Government, including Hillary Clinton.

Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901 under John Francis Queeny, a businessman born in Chicago of Scottish
ancestry, who originally worked for the Jewish-owned Meyer Brothers Drug Company, one of the largest wholesale pharmaceutical
companies at the time. Queeny married a Sephardic Jewess named Olga Mendez Monsanto, the daughter of Don Emmanuel
Mendes de Monsanto. The Jewish Monsanto family were involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and sugar plantation industry,

with interests in the West Indies, Puerto Rico and Louisiana. The Monsantos were just one of many Jewish families involved in the
enslavement ofBlack Africans. Queeny and Monsanto had children, including Edgar Monsanto Queeny, who was the second
Chairman of Monsanto, carrying on the Jewish bloodline. The company's first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin, which
was sold to the Coca-Cola Company.
In 1919 Monsanto expanded to Europe by entering a partnership with Graesser's Chemical Works at Cefn Mawr near Ruabon,
Wales to produce vanillin, aspirin and its raw ingredient salicylic acid, and later rubberprocessing chemicals. This site was later sold
and closed in 2010. In the 1920s Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals like sulfuric acid and PCBs, and Queeny's
son Edgar Monsanto Queeny took over the company in 1928.
In 1946 it developed "All" laundry detergent and began to market it; they sold the product line to Lever Brothers in 1957.[17] Also in
the 1940s, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project,
the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1947 one of its factories was
destroyed in the Texas City Disaster.[18]Monsanto acquired American Viscose from England's Courtauld family in 1949. In 1954
Monsanto partnered with German chemical giant Bayer to form Mobay and market polyurethanes in the United States.
Monsanto began manufacturing DDT in 1944, along with some 15 other companies.[19] This insecticide was much welcomed in the
fight against malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Due to DDT's toxicity, its use in the United States was banned in 1972. In 1977
Monsanto stopped producing PCBs; the United States Congress banned domestic PCB production two years later. [20] In the 1960s
and 1970s, Monsanto was also one of the most important producers of Agent Orange for United States Armed Forces operations
in Vietnam.
In the mid-1960s, William Standish Knowles and his team invented a way to selectively synthesize enantiomers via asymmetric
hydrogenation. This was an important advancement because it was the first method for thecatalytic production of
pure chiral compounds.[21] Using this method, Knowles' team designed the "first industrial process to chirally synthesize an important
compound" L-dopa, which is currently the main drug used to treat Parkinson's disease.[22] In 2001 Knowles and Ryji Noyori won
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In the mid-1960s chemists at Monsanto developed the Monsanto process for making acetic acid,
which until 2000 was the method most widely used to make this important industrial chemical. In 1965 Monsanto chemists
invented AstroTurf, which the company then commercialized.
In 1968 they became the first company to start mass production of (visible) light emitting diodes (LEDs), using gallium arsenide
phosphide. This ushered in the era of solid-state lights. From 1968 to 1970, sales doubled every few months. Their products
(discrete LEDs and seven-segment numeric displays) became the standards of industry. The primary markets then were electronic
calculators, digital watches, and digital clocks.[23]Monsanto was a pioneer of optoelectronics in the 1970s.
In 1979 Monsanto established the Edgar Monsanto Queeny safety award in honor of its former CEO (1928-1960), an annual
$2,000 PRIZE

given to a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers to encourage accident prevention.[24]

Monsanto scientists became the first to genetically modify a plant cell in 1982. Five years later, Monsanto conducted the first field
tests of genetically engineered crops.

In 1985 Monsanto acquired G. D. Searle & Company, a life sciences company focusing on pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and animal
health. In 1993 Monsanto's Searle division filed a patent application for Celebrex,[25][26]which in 1998 became the first
selective COX-2 inhibitor to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).[27] Celebrex became a blockbuster
drug and was often mentioned as a key reason for Pfizer's acquisition of Monsanto's pharmaceutical business in 2002.[28]
In 1994 Monsanto introduced a recombinant version of bovine somatotropin, brand-named Posilac.[29] Monsanto later sold this
business off to Eli Lilly and Company.
In 1996 Monsanto purchased Agracetus, the biotechnology company that had generated the first transgenic varieties of cotton,
soybeans, peanuts, and other crops, and which Monsanto had already been licencing technology from since 1991. [30] Monsanto first
entered the maize seed business when it purchased 40% of DEKALB in 1996; it purchased the remainder of the corporation in
1998.[31] In 1998 Monsanto purchased Cargill's seed business, which gave it access to sales and distribution facilities in 51
countries.[32] In 2005, it finalized the purchase of Seminis Inc, a leading global vegetable and fruit seed company, for $1.4
billion.[33] This made it the world's largest conventional seed company at the time.
In 2007 Monsanto and BASF announced a long-term agreement to cooperate in the research, development, and marketing of new
plant biotechnology products.[34][35]
In October 2008, the company's Canadian division, Monsanto Canada Inc., was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers by
Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's news magazine.[36]
In 2014, Monsanto tried to patent a natural mutation of a tomato which evolved a naturally occurring resistance to a fungal disease
called botrytis. The tomato is not genetically modified, but Monsanto manipulated documents to make the plant look invented by
biotech when the plants true maker is Mother Nature, herself.[37]
In 2006, investigative news report regarding cancer-causing additives to milk by Monsanto is shut down by Fox News executives.[38]

Spin-offs and mergers

Through a series of transactions, the Monsanto that existed from 1901 to 2000 and the current Monsanto are legally two distinct
corporations. Although they share the same name and corporate headquarters, many of the same executives and other employees,
and responsibility for liabilities arising out of activities in the industrial chemical business, the agricultural chemicals business is the
only segment carried forward from the pre-1997 Monsanto Company to the current Monsanto Company. This wasACCOMPLISHED
beginning in the 1980s:

1985: Monsanto purchased G. D. Searle & Company for $2.7 billion in CASH

.[39][40] In this merger,

Searle's aspartame business became a separate Monsanto subsidiary, the NutraSweet Company. CEO of NutraSweet, Robert
B. Shapiro, became CEO of Monsanto from 1995 to 2000.

1996: Acquired Agracetus, a majority interest in Calgene, creators of the Flavr Savr tomato, and 40% of DEKALB Genetics
Corporation. It purchased the remainder of Dekalb in 1998.[41][42]

1997: Monsanto spun off its industrial chemical and fiber divisions into Solutia Inc.[43] This transferred the financial liability
related to the production and contamination with PCBs at the Illinois and Alabama plants. In January, Monsanto announced the
purchase of Holden's Foundations Seeds, a privately held seed business. By acquiring Holden's, Monsanto became the
biggest American producer of foundation corn, the parent seed from which hybrids are made.[44] The combined purchase price
was $925 million. Also, in April, Monsanto purchased the remaining shares of Calgene.

1999: Monsanto sold off NutraSweet Co. and two other companies.

2000 (spring): Monsanto merged with Pharmacia & Upjohn, and the agricultural division became a wholly owned subsidiary of
the "new" Pharmacia; the medical research divisions, which included products such as Celebrex, remained in Pharmacia.[45]

2000 (October): Pharmacia spun off its Monsanto subsidiary into a new company, the "new Monsanto". [46] As part of the deal,
Monsanto agreed to indemnify Pharmacia against any liabilities that might be incurred from judgments against Solutia. As a
result, the new Monsanto continues to be a party to numerous lawsuits that relate to operations of the old Monsanto.

2005: Monsanto acquired Emergent Genetics and its Stoneville and NexGen cotton brands. Emergent was the third largest
U.S. cotton seed company, with about 12 percent of the U.S. market. Monsanto's goal was to obtain "a strategic cotton
germplasm and traits platform."[47]

2007: In June, Monsanto completed its purchase of Delta and Pine Land Company, a major cotton seed breeder, for
$1.5 billion.[48] As a condition for approval of the purchase from the Department of Justice, Monsanto was obligated to divest its
Stoneville cotton business, which it sold to Bayer, and to divest its NexGen cotton business, which it sold to
Americot.[49] Monsanto also exited the pig breeding business by selling Monsanto Choice Genetics to Newsham Genetics LC in
November, divesting itself of "any and all swine-related patents, patent applications, and all other intellectual property". [50]

2008: Monsanto purchased the Dutch seed company De Ruiter Seeds for 546 million,[51] and sold its POSILAC bovine
somatotropin brand and related business to Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly in August for $300 million plus
"additional contingent consideration".[52]

Corporate governance
Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University; Hugh
Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners; Gwendolyn King,
president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of CONNECTED

Energy

Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation; William U. Parfet,
chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc.; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA; George H. Poste, chief executive of
Health Technology Networks; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.[53][54]

Critics

Monsanto's products

Monsanto researches, manufactures and sells genetically modified seeds. Currently, 90 percent of all the world's cultivated Genmanipulated come from Monsanto. There is criticism that the water and aquaculture businesses the company would aim to
monopolize the resources vital to our survival and turn it into a market.
Monsanto has reinforced its efforts to expand its market position in the production of food and seed, which is described by critics as
a global monopoly. Some criticized the contractual commitment of farmers to the company, which forbids them to own harvest to
use as seed again and allows extensive control of farmers to prevent patent infringement. It is also not permitted to farmers in case
of conflict, to rule against third parties. Furthermore, these farmers must contractually agree in the case of crop and yield losses (eg,
decline in fertility in breeding pigs) not to sue Monsanto.
Monsanto buys numberous seed producers. The aim is obvious, even in this area to achieve a dominant position.
In December 2013, Sofia Gatica was protesting Monsanto in Argentina. Monsanto's hired thugs threatened to murder her if she
continued protesting and then beat her to an inch of her life.[55]
Their GM foods don't necessarily thrive any better than real crops while they instead are toxic to the soil, polinating insects, and
anything that eats the crops.[56]

US government promotion
In March 2013 after protests outside the whitehouse and many mails to congress and president Obama, they passed the
"Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013" and Obama signed it. It contained text slipped in anonymously--that
is correct lawmakers were allowed to anonymous slip things in to it--that Monsanto Corp had written themselves that prevented the
courts from stopping their GMO foods (genetically modified foods). Obama had during his 2008 campaign promised to make it
required that GMO foods were labeled and he never did so. The text by Monsanto was called The Monsanto Protection Act,
althoubh Monsanto called it the Farmer Assurance Provision. There was major public backlash as the USA was supportive of
Monsanto whereas other countries such Hungary and China banned GMO foods. On May 25, 2013, there was a nationwide protest
of Monsanto held in major cities.[57][58][59]

In July 2014, the US government pulled its foreign aid to El Salvador for rejecting Monsanto's GMO seeds. Monsanto's seeds both
produce deadly crops and make farmers financially enslaved to Monsanto's patented seeds.[60][61]
Obama also placed former Monsanto VP Michael R. Taylor as head of the FDA.

Seed Regulation in the European Union

In 2014, the European Union banned all seeds not REGISTERED

with the government, a move supporting Monsanto's GMO

foods.[62]

Gallery

Monsanto stock price 2000

Monsanto food causes tumors
2010.
in rats.
GMO feed turns pig stomachs to mush! Shocking photos

GMO corn exposed.

reveal severe damage caused byGM soy and corn.

Multimedia
See also

Aspartame

The Agricultural Holocaust

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External links

Monsanto's Zionist agenda at Fitzgerald Informer

Monsanto family were Jewish slave dealers and owners at Rense.com

Jewish CEO of Monsanto forever perverted the world's food supply

Jew-controlled Monsanto responsible at least 200,000 suicides in India past 10 years at CamelDog.com

Genetically-modified Eggplant Found to be Unsafe for Human Consumption at GlobalResearch.ca

Is Monsanto the World's Most Evil Corporation? at Mother Earth News

Five reasons why Roundup should be banned forever

Archive for Emmanuel Mendes de Monsanto

The Monsanto Pandoras Box Nightmare of GMO Global

Genocide: Unleashed and Irreversible.
By Apollo Comments (0)
Thursday, January 12th, 2012

The USDA continues to grant Monsanto further power over itself,

despite evidence linking Monsantos creations to health conditions and environmental devastation.
Despite receiving nearly 45,000 public comments voicing opposition and only 23 comments in favor
since comments opened, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced during the
Christmas-New Year holidays, the decision to deregulate two of Monsantos genetically modified seed
varieties, giving the company a further grasp on the food supply of the nation. One of the modified corn
seed varieties is engineered to resist drought conditions, and the other is an herbicide-resistant soybean
that has been genetically engineered to produce more fatty acids.
Research has found that Monsantos GMO crops, despite claims to be resistant to herbicides and pesticides,
actually require significantly more harsh chemicals. This can only compound the clearly documented
damaging health effects already known about GM crops.
Dr Arpad Pusztai found that rats fed GM potatoes had smaller livers, hearts, testicles and brains, as well as
damaged immune systems; they showed structural changes in their white blood cells, making them more

vulnerable to infection and disease compared to other rats fed non-GM potatoes. It got worse. Thymus and
spleen damage showed up, as did enlarged tissues, including the pancreas and intestines.
There were cases of liver atrophy as well as significant proliferation of stomach and intestinal cells that could
be a sign of greater future risk of cancer. Equally alarming was that all this happened after only 10 days of
testing, and the changes persisted after 110 days thats the human equivalent of 10 years.
- Jeffrey Smiths Seeds of Deception

Jeffrey M. Smith reveals in shocking detail the biotechnology industrys laundry list of perpetual crimes
against humanity via its propagation of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Smith explains how biotech
giant Monsanto, in particular, has rigged the entire system to push its deadly products on the populations of
the world.

Citing numerous scientists and former industry representatives that are now blowing the whistle in regards
to the corruption, Smith sheds light on the fraudulent science that continues to be used to thrust GMOs on
the public, and the revolving door between the biotech industry and politics that allows it to continue.

He documents how consumption of genetically modified foods has been directly linked with reproductive
problems, immune system deficiencies, accelerated ageing, organ damage and gastrointestinal problems.
The immune system problem has been seen consistently in mice and rats who are fed GMO food, explains
Smith, and now since humans have started consuming genetically modified foods, auto-immune diseases
and allergies have increased.

Monsanto

Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901,

by John Francis Queeny, a 30-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry. He funded the start-up with his
own MONEY

and capital from a soft drink distributor, and gave the company his wifes maiden name. His

father in law was Emmanuel Mendes de Monsanto, wealthy financier of a sugar company active in Vieques,
Puerto Rico and based in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies. The companys first product was the
artificial sweetener saccharin, which it sold to the Coca-Cola Company. It also introduced caffeine and
vanillin to Coca-Cola, and became one of that companys main suppliers.

In 1919, Monsanto established its presence in Europe by entering into a partnership with Graessers
Chemical Works at Cefn Mawr near Ruabon, Wales to produce vanillin, salicylic acid, aspirin and later
rubber.

In its third decade, the 1920s, Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals like sulfuric acid, and the
decade ended with Queenys son Edgar Monsanto Queeny taking over the company in 1928.

The 1940s saw Monsanto become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene, and synthetic
fibers. Since then, it has remained one of the top 10 US chemical companies. Other major products have
included the herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, and Agent Orange used primarily during the Vietnam War as a
defoliant agent (later found to be contaminated during manufacture with highly carcinogenic dioxin), the
artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet), bovine somatotropin (bovine growth hormone (BST), and
PCBs. Also in this decade, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratories in
Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947,
the Atomic Energy Commission.

Monsanto began manufacturing DDT in 1944, along with some 15 other companies. This insecticide was
much-welcomed in the fight against malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. The use of DDT in the U.S. was
banned by Congress in 1972, due in large part to efforts by environmentalists, who persisted in the
challenge put forth by Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring in 1962, which sought to inform the public
of the side effects associated with DDT. As the decade ended, Monsanto acquired American Viscose from
Englands Courtauld family in 1949.

In 1954, Monsanto partnered with German chemical giant Bayer to form Mobay and market polyurethanes in
the US.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Monsanto became one of the most important producers of Agent Orange for US
Military operations in Vietnam. Agent Orange caused an immense damage to health, also for US-soldiers,
not at least by genetic modification.

Agent Orange Spraying Vietnam

In 1980, Monsanto established the Edgar Monsanto Queeny safety award in honor of its former CEO (1928
1960), to encourage accident prevention.

Monsanto scientists became the first to genetically modify a plant cell in 1982. Five years later, Monsanto
conducted the first field tests of genetically engineered crops.

Throughout 2004 and 2005, Monsanto filed lawsuits against many farmers in Canada and the U.S. on the
grounds of patent infringement, specifically the farmers sale of seed containing Monsantos patented genes.
In some cases, farmers claimed the seed was unknowingly sown by wind carrying the seeds from
neighboring crops, a claim rejected in Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser. These instances began in the
mid to late 1990s, with one of the most significant cases being decided in Monsantos favor by the Canadian
Supreme Court. By a 54 vote in late May 2004, that court ruled that by cultivating a plant containing the
patented gene and composed of the patented cells without license, the appellants (canola farmer Percy
Schmeiser) deprived the respondents of the full enjoyment of the patent. With this ruling, the Canadian
courts followed the U.S. Supreme Court in its decision on patent issues involving plants and genes.

Organic Farming, Dr. Pusztai, say no to GMO, Dr. Huber, Monsanto & the BIO-AG Philosophy

As GMOs, Monsantos Roundup and government regulators continue to interfere in our quest for clean and
pure food, Dr. Pusztai and Dr. Huber present the problems of today, and Murray Bast of www.Bio-Ag.com
presents the solutions. Dr. Arpad Pusztai PhD speaks about the original GMO safety tests, and how he
believes it would be unforgivable to use humanity as guinea pigs.

GM Crops Farmer to Farmer

In a video called GM Crops Farmer to Farmer, Michael Hart, a Cornwall farmer, travels across the
heartland of America talking to farmers about GM crops. The conclusion he comes to based on his interviews
is that they are a con. The farmers get suckered into buying the seeds, find they dont perform as well as
their natural seeds did and find it nearly impossible to switch back. In the meantime, the price of everything
Monsanto goes up each year and they find it harder and harder to make a profit. These are ordinary
American farmers who know their business and never suspected they were being conned until it was too
late.

Theres nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have
established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend
on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it
its strategic. Its more powerful than bombs. Its more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control
the populations of the world. The story starts in the White House, where Monsanto often got its way by
exerting disproportionate influence over policymakers via the revolving door. One example is Michael
Taylor, who worked for Monsanto as an attorney before being appointed as deputy commissioner of the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. While at the FDA, the authority that deals with all US food
approvals, Taylor made crucial decisions that led to the approval of GE foods and crops. Then he returned to
Monsanto, becoming the companys vice president for public policy.

Michael Taylor
Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and
crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their
safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market. Monsantos
long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings
of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics
the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and
concealing scientific evidence.
Is the US Forcing GMO Food on Europe

William Engdahl, economic researcher, journalist, historian, and author of Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden
Agenda of GMO, offers his extensively researched wisdom on the subject.

He explains that since G.W. Bush went to the World Trade Organization in 2003 and pressed a suit against
the European Union for blocking the licensing and approval of GMO crops

..the US government has made GMO seeds, patented from Dupont and Monsanto, a national security
priority, tantamount to the export of defense weapons for the Pentagon and for the US budget. Its a
national security export sector agribusiness, and especially GMO seeds.
He further explains that the US government co-holds the patent with Monsanto on terminator seed
technology!

Seeds of Destruction : Full Spectrum Dominance : William Engdahl Interview

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