Monsanto Project: Business Analysis

Through the three parts of the Monsanto project, (the process, the paper, and the presentation), I’ve gained new writing skills and insight from my partners I will use in further writing such as the upcoming transnational corporation assignment. The overall researching and writing process as a group was simple because my group was easy to work with and each individual contributed in researching, writing, and presenting. Researching was fairly straightforward and did not require much digging around because there is a ton of information about Monsanto, Monsanto history, lawsuits, and the food industry in general online. We split up our research so that everyone looked up a different portion of our focus of intellectual property (IP). This was a successful way to find as much about Monsanto as we could. My group had such an overload of information that it was not necessary to use all of what we found to make our argument.
Our group first decided to write the entire paper together. Due to scheduling conflicts and a lack of time, we were forced to split up the essay into …show more content…
On the Monsanto corporate website, the company responds to issues that have been brought to light like their method of patenting their product, the restrictions they place on farmers, and their history of suing farmers. I wrote about how Monsanto insists they only do what is best for both society and their farmers, and that patenting their product is their right and a common practice. If I had a chance to rewrite my portion, I would try to expand and connect my argument to other sections in the essay, specifically the section on how Monsanto was given the right to patent their seed, or on the section that focuses on how Monsanto’s actions still put farmers in an undesirable predicament Given more time, I would try to find statements from Monsanto in court cases against