Monsanto

If you have ever wondered how your food has been made, then I have the movie for you. Food Inc. shows you exactly how the public’s food is made. If you have an hour and 34 minutes and want learn how your food to made, this is the movie to watch. It is very in depth and may have some graphics you may not want to see, but from watching it you learn a lot. Food Inc. is a eye-opening documentary that shows you how you get your food. It starts off by showing you that a few large companies control…

In addition to the lawsuits from “seed saving” with compliant GM farmers, farmers with no association with Monsanto are also losing out. Many organic farms are losing billions of dollars because they are being contaminated by GM pollen and seeds, through no fault of their own. Each time an organic farm is contaminated; the farm loses their prestigious title and has to deal with Monsanto lawsuits, because of their patented seeds. Organic food is in very high demand right now; many people are on…

to which was used tactically and caused many negative effects for veterans and the Vietnamese. Agent orange was a chemical used in the Vietnam war that caused deforestation, hurt crops, and disabled veterans. The creator of agent orange was Monsanto who created the chemical designed for the U.S. Department of Defence to deforest the area and take out the crops so they could fight and weaken the food supply(wiki author). When agent orange went down the leafs of the trees fell along with…

copyright we have cross-pollination of crops. If a farmer were to plant his own soybean or corn crop, the surround areas might have been affected by GMO pollen. As pollination occurs it is up to the farmer to prove he has not infringed on the patents of Monsanto. The importance of the information it so austere the company has an investigation team. The main job of that team is to protect the products and control the environment in which they are used. This leads to farmers being labeled as…

GMOs: Are they good or bad? Humans have developed the world so much to the point where our population is getting out of hand and continues to grow. The world can only sustain a certain amount of people and food to feed its inhabitants. After an extreme growth in population; many countries have changed to genetically modified foods. I want to investigate the effects of GMO foods on human health and the environment. GMO stands for genetically modified organism also known as Genetically enhanced…

metric tons of the grain produced and more than 930 million tons consumed by livestock and people.” This information, coming from Monsanto, is followed by their claim that in the past twenty-five years, “production and consumption of corn has doubled from around 475 million tons in less than 25 years. Clearly, the world needs production to keep up with consumption”. Monsanto may think that they are doing their job to keep up with the country’s insatiable need for corn in its food, however doing…

believed to benefit the consumer by providing more nutrients but instead it benefits the producer rather than the consumer. The flavr savr was the promise of better food but instead the consumers got ripped off my famers and biotechnology companies like Monsanto. I believe this article has relevant information that will be useful in my research paper. I can talk about how the flavr savr promise was never met and how GMO is going against everything it was originally made to be. I would give this…

gene-splicing techniques through biotechnology. Although GMOs have been floating around the world for much time, it’s only been recently that people have become more concerned with them. Big companies that produce genetically modified organisms, like Monsanto, try their hardest to commercialize that these products are healthy and beneficial for the environment. While that may seem to be the chase at first glance, many activists against GMOs believe that these big companies are expelling lies and…

Since Watson and Crick unraveled the structure of DNA, much controversy has sparked regarding biotechnology and its ethics. According to BBC, biotechnology includes “any use of science or technology to alter the characteristics of a particular breed or animal.”1 Many believe that biotechnology will have unexpected adverse consequences and some claim that it is tampering with God’s creations. Contrary, many scientists counterargue that it has shown potential in producing unprecedented vaccines,…

The current law allows MNCs “…to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated… [With a company’s genetically-engineered seed patents]” ("Supreme Court Hands Monsanto Victory over Farmers on GMO Seed Patents, Ability to Sue."). Not only is this law preposterous because farmers will have difficulty succeeding against large corporations, but also because cross contamination is a byproduct of nature, which cannot…