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Monsanto Corporation
Monsanto is an agricultural company. Farmers around the world use their innovative products to produc
conserving more. They help farmers to grow yield in a sustainable way and to reduce agriculture's over
our environment. Their business is defined by their seeds-and-traits strategy, so they are constantly loo
ways to maximize the potential of seed for farmers ± both its yield and the technology used to
yield.Their work provides farmers with fresh ways to get more out of each seed. Farmers use thei
products to help them protect their harvest from weeds and insects, and produce healthier, more abu more nutritious animal feeds, better quality fiber and renewable fuels. Their business works to meet farmers through two business segments:
Seeds and Traits y
Corn,
cotton, wheat and oilseeds
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In-the-seed
traits that protect against bugs and weeds
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Vegetables
and fruit seeds
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Crop
protection products for farms, public spaces and gardens
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other companies throughout the world. This approach ensures that farmers can access their products in
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that mean the most to their farm.Some of their leading North American brands are:
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Genetically modified foods are foods that have had their DNA altered through genetic engineer
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tomatoes, potatoes, rice, barley and many others.The major GMO crops worldwide are Soya, Maiz
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all soybeans and approximately 80 percent of all corn in the United States grows from seeds genet
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according to Monsanto company patents.
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their separate strains of corn and soybeans which are their high selling products around the globe.
Risks/Rewards of GMO product to Monsanto and its Stakeh
Since the first introduction on the market in the mid-1990s of a major GM food (herbicide-resistant soyb
has been increasing concern about such food among politicians, activists and consumers, especially in E
Several factors are involved. In the late 1980s ± early 1990s, the results of decades of molecular research
public domain. Until that time, consumers were generally not very aware of the potential of this research
of food, consumers started to wonder about safety because they perceive that modern biotechnology is le You're Reading a Preview creation of new species. Unlock full access with a free trial.
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consumers (not cheaper, no increased shelf-life, no better taste). The potential for GM seeds to result in b Master your semester with Scribd Read Free Foron 30this Days Sign up to vote title per cultivated should lead to lower prices. However, public attention has focused the risk side of & The New area York Times useful Useful Not on Special offer for students: Only $4.99/month.
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choice. At the same time, it has proved difficult to detect traces of GMOs in foods: this means that very
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concentrations often cannot be detected. Political Concern
The U.S. government has classified GMOs as mere additives in food, the Food and Drug Administrat
not required to approve them prior to sale and marketing to consumers. Nor is there a labeling req
genetically engineered products. Nonetheless, public opinion in the U.S. is rapidly shifting in favo regulations and mandatory labeling for GM products. According to a recent poll by
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Americans want GM food to be labeled. Political Analysis U.S. (2010) Social concerns
Much of the controversy about the use of GMOs is about labeling and choice.
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choose whether they want or not to eat these products. Producers of GMOs, on the other hand, resis
prohibitively costly and out of fear that consumers might shun GMO products. Maryknoll Offic Concerns.
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of containing the spread of plant seeds and pollen in the field because of the possibility of accidenta pharm crops with other crops destined for human or animal consumption which have create a ban
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Through its True Food Network, Greenpeace has been instrumental in pressuring compa
Heinz and Gerber to drop genetically altered soybeans and corn from their baby formu Analysis U.S.(2010) Regulatory concerns
The concern over the safety of genetically engineered products has also begun to infiltrate U.S. politics. y
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late February 1999, 65 plaintiffs, including Greenpeace, the Sierra
Club,
and the Internation
of Organic Agricultural Movements, filed a lawsuit in the district court of Washington D. C. aga
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on grounds that it had acted unlawfully in its approv
engineered to produce Bt toxin, a gene-modified insecticide produced by the soil bacteri
thuringiensis.1[2] The suit demands that the EPA immediately withdraws its approval of all B
refrain from making any new approvals until a complete, scientific environmental impact ass been carried. (1) Political Analysis U.S.(2010) y
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Engineered Food Right to Know Act,´ which states that all foods that contain or are pr genetically engineered material must be labeled. Political Analysis U.S.(2010)
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relationship of control over or dominance of; the human posture should be of deep respect for and intera
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result of the introduction of genetically modified organisms into the environment. Maryknoll Offic
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Problems have already begging; pollen from genetically modified plants is spread by the wind a
found to have pollinated plants in fields where GMOs were not planted. In Mexico the planting o
modified corn is prohibited, but has been found in several parts of the country because s
experimentally planted corn that had been imported from the U.S. for food and animal feed
organic canola farmers complain that it is no longer possible to grow canola that can be certifie because of GMO contamination.Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.(2010).
Another negative issue is the effect of GMOs on biodiversity. The natural genetic diversity of the organ
to be lost and this is a very critical issue because the natural genetic diversity is a form of ³insura unforeseen natural disasters.Maryknoll Office for Global
Issues
Concerns.(2010).
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Monsanto abuses its immensely disproportionate amount of power at the cost of small businesses an
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good. The patent on Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) seeds makes it possible for them to sue s
and conventional farmers, whose fields are naturally contaminated by the manufactured GM seeds carrie wind and other animals. By suing these farmers, Monsanto is able to gain ownership of the farmer's
future harvests and, at times, impose fines or, in rare cases, jail time. Monsanto not only affects local eco
of Britain's top organic organizations found that since 1999, GM seeds have cost the United States $ farm subsidies, lower prices for crops, loss of major export orders and product recalls.
Nonítransparent practices of Monsanto are in stark contradiction with the public's interest. With much i
misinformation from Monsanto, the Food and Drug Administration not only approved the use of Mons
growth hormone, which is injected into cows to increase milk production and has been banned in Eu
and many other countries for health concerns, but also ruled that milk from treated cows does not have
label indicating so. When reporters from a FOXíowned T V station in Florida launched an investigation
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Shortly after releasing the E IS, USDA indicated their preference for the third option and asked the biot
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Conclusion
Different GM organisms include different genes inserted in different ways. This means that individual G
their safety should be assessed on a case-by-case basis and that it is not possible to make general state
safety of all GM foods. The safety assessment of GM foods generally investigates: (a) direct health effe
(b) tendencies to provoke allergic reaction (allergenicity); (c) specific components thought to have n
toxic properties; (d) the stability of the inserted gene; (e) nutritional effects associated with genetic mod
(f) any unintended effects which could result from the gene insertion.The movement of genes from GM
conventional crops or related species in the wild (referred to as ³outcrossing´), as well as the mixing of c
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