In addition, Monsanto’s CEO should focus on innovations to crop expansion in underdeveloped countries…
Monsanto is a powerful company with a history of making what many would find questionable or unethical business decisions in the quest for profits. “Many stakeholders are concerned about the moral and safety implications of genetically modified food” (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). If I were Monsanto’s CEO, to balance the conflicting needs of the variety of stakeholder groups that the company must successfully engage, I would first place labels on the products. Although the FDA determined Americans do not need to know when they consume genetically modified products the company would state the fact on labeling like it does in other countries. Also, I would continue to donate to programs that focus on improving communities in developing countries.…
The author explains that there has been much progress made in advancing the movement, creating better food, ecological, and social conditions. However Obach also points out current issues like big-organic and conveys the idea there is more progress to be made. In order for organic to displace conventional systems, activists will need to continue their battle at all levels, from educating consumers, to making policy…
A major topic of concern today can be found in the world’s struggle with hunger and the malnourishment of millions of people. In attempt to address this matter, many countries have turned to genetically modified foods, causing many people to debate on whether or not they could be the answer to world hunger. Unfortunately, the countries not participating in the genetically modified foods movement are the main ones in need of food and nourishment. One author, Robert Paarlberg, attempts to describe the great need and positivity of allowing these modern growing methods in his article, “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers.” Through the use of convincing facts, rhetorical devices, proposals, and addressing opposing views, Paarlberg effectively argues…
Big questions always seem to surround food. The debate may start with simply asking how can we eat healthily, but eventually, the questions drift and somehow, we are left wondering, how can we feed the world. Working together, in a way that almost tag-teams, authors Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan establish that healthy eating surrounds the consumption of plants with the intent of being an active participant in the agriculture behind the foods we eat. Although Louise Fresco doesn’t reject their claim, she argues that fruits and vegetables are not going to end world hunger. Accordingly, she offers her own solution to this big picture question but ultimately agrees with the base of the others’ claim.…
The Schmidt family is a 2,000-acre farm that has spent the last 20 years meddling with GMO and non-GM produce. On the brighter side of what Lappé wrote (The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork), the Schmidt farm takes every precaution in making a regenerative farm. Regenerative farms are a simpler way of saying a farm that contributes and helps nature, rather can consuming and producing waste such as a degenerative farm like mainstream industrial farms. By maintaining a high quality in the terms of their products, making a positive impact on the world, and turning a large profit margin, Jenkins shows us that being positively sustainable like the Schmidts could be possible on a wider scale for farmers all over. GMOs proved to Jenny that they were there to improve, to keep safe, and to keep well produce by avoiding dangerous pesticides and hormone-induced foods.…
Nutritional Guest Speaker In American, currently and a few other countries that have a decent economic system is currently battling an epidemic. This epidemic is spreading like a weed and there is no controlling it. All of it starts with a seed from company who is paying lobbyists and federal candidates off named, Monsanto. This company has a patent on seeds that have been genetically modified with herbicides and pesticides. One of the corn seed this company sells is Roundup ready.…
Companies such as Monsanto are making millions, while destroying the farming industry. Despite the overwhelming consumption of modified foods, Shiva continues to travel the world and educate people on the health benefits of unmodified foods. Within the past three decades,…
Throughout history, humans have managed to stay alive with new technology which allows food to grow fast and efficiently. But with every great accomplishment, a major downfall always occurs. In “Global Food Crises,” by Marcia Clemmitt describes how major food corporations have created major issues in American society beginning with farmers and fertilized crops. To begin, in the 1930’s the Dust Bowl occurred and millions of Americans lost all food sources. [1] The United States created “legislation in 1933” to make sure family framers had jobs to help feed America.…
This can be a true for many consumers who migrated towards the organic trend who felt it is morally inhumane to be eating corporate food when you have the option to eat “free range chickens” or “non-GMO fruits”. Furthermore, Shapin stated that organic farms can minimize its negative environmental impact by citing that Earthbound Farm “annually obviate the use of more than a quarter of a million pounds of toxic chemical pesticides and almost 8.5 million pounds of synthetic fertilizers, which saves 1.4 million gallons of the petroleum needed to produce those chemicals.” (429-430) Shapin aims to educate the readers on what it truly means to be…
Seeds of Death is an enjoyable documentary that admonishes its audience on a relevant topic. It evaluates a major societal issue, the use of genetically-modified foods, in such depth that it is almost impossible to perceive that it is not an issue. It uses vivid, factual details to form the basis of the argument that GMO’s have already been observed as detrimental to animal and human health. For almost centuries, corporations such as Monsanto and Du Pointe have been aware of these adverse effects. Not only this, they have paid government officials in order to prevent legislature that requires them to inform their consumers if their food was genetically-modified.…
Do The Pros of GMO’s outweigh the Cons? Since the introduction on the genetically modified organism in the mid to late 1990’s many people have debated on their economic and environmental impact, as well as their safety for human consumption. Many companies like Monsanto and Dow Agro-science that produce these bioengineered foods have conducted research on the topics of environmental and economic benefits as well as the safety of GMO foods. The results of the studies conclude that genetically modified foods are safe, economically beneficial, environmentally sensible, and have no danger to the people that consume them.…
Organisms have been genetically modified for thousands for years. Dogs are bred together to make a new, better breeds. Fruits are crossbred to make new types of fruits. Today, most food is genetically modified. Over 70% of processed food in the United States is considered genetically modified.…
Omar Akhtar Southeastern OSU-MKT5243 February 11, 2018 Monsanto Case Study 1. If you were Monsanto’s CEO, how would you best balance the conflicting needs of the variety of stakeholder groups that Monsanto must successfully engage? To balance the interest of various stakeholder groups, we need to first identify the stakeholders and analyze their needs and expectations from Monsanto. The basic stakeholders for Monsanto would be its suppliers, customers (the farmers), consumers of the food items being manufactured from these seeds, employees of the company, investors, shareholders and the society in which the company is based.…
These opposing organizations advocate for the continued use of agricultural biotechnology in order to provide for an abundant food supply that would ultimately lower the cost of food and increase the potential to help end world hunger (The Facts About GMO). While an increased and inexpensive food supply would appear to benefit society, anti-GMO activists continually rebut these claims by arguing that GMOs cause more harm than good. For example in a TED talk, speaker Birke Baehr says, “We can either pay the farmer or we can pay the hospital” (TEDTalks). Baehr credibly argues that there are no real savings associated with a surplus of inexpensive food. In fact, there is an even greater cost–our…