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- "Monsanto Killer: No GMOs" -- Monsanto Seed Depot Set On Fire In Italian Protest - "Arsonists set fire to a Monsanto depot in northern Italy which contained seeds suspected of being genetically modified, police said Tuesday." News and archived discussion. [Plastic]
www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=01/04/04/0423252
- Against the Grain -- Common Courage Press - Dr. Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey finally got "Against the Grain" published by a brave outfit that knew the first publisher caved into threats by Monsanto if it went to press with this book.
www.commoncouragepress.com/lappe_against.html
- Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir? - Links to the text of the Federal Court ruling in the Monsanto vs Schmeiser case and a CBC news article, followed by an archived discussion. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/articles/01/03/30/146227.shtml
- Corporate Screw Job: Monsanto vs. Percy Schmeiser - Summary of The Terminator controversy and Monsanto's lawsuit against Percy Schmeiser, a farmer whose fields were contaminated with Round-Up Ready Canola.
www.grumpymen.com/CSJ/csj_monsanto.htm
- Criminal Investigation of Monsanto Corporation - Purefood.org discusses "Cover-up of Dioxin Contamination in Products - Falsification of Dioxin Health Studies."
www.purefood.org/dioxcov.html
- Ethical Investing: Review of Monsanto (Pharmacia) - Detailed information about Monsanto (Pharmacia) products. New releases. Resources for alternate products. Investing and mutual fund information.
www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto
- Fox TV Fires Its Reporters - Monsanto allegedly intimidated television producers whose investigative journalists had uncovered problems that would have embarrassed this giant Agri-chemical firm.
www.inmotionmagazine.com/fox.html
- GM Spin Doctor, Heal Thyself - How the genetic modifications debate in the UK has been manipulated by lobbyists, public relations and advertising. Reports that the chair of the Commons Agriculture Select Committee is on the payroll of a Monsanto lobbyist. [FlyingFish]
www.flyingfish.org.uk/articles/gmspin/healself.htm
- Greenwash Awards: Monsanto - Kenny Bruno's Winter 1998 Greenwash Award winner for "a slick campaign to convince a skeptical public that their genetic manipulation is a key to 'sustainable development.'"
www.corpwatch.org/trac/greenwash/monsanto.html
- Hands Off The Franken-Canola - "Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer, may have to pay Monsanto more than $200,000 for violating their patent by growing genetically modified canola." News and archived discussion. [Plastic]
www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/24/2022230
- Italian Police Raid Monsanto GM Stockpile - Italy's health authorities suspect Monsanto is illegally distributing genetically modified seed for growing crops. [BBC News]
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1248000/1248443.stm
- Mercury Rising at Monsanto - Chronology of mercury emissions from Monsanto/Solutia's Anniston plant. [Anniston Star]
www.annistonstar.com/news/2001/as-localnews-0720-0-vh208283.htm
- MM: The Ten Worst Corporations of 1994 - Monsanto is ranked #5 for introducing rBGH. "Monsanto, the company that brought you Agent Orange, has invested over $500 million in rBGH, and it made sure earlier this year that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved it over forceful objections from the scientific community."
multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm1294.html#topten
- Monsanto and PCBs - "The Washington Post has acquired documents showing how aMonsanto Corp. PCB plant polluted a small town in Alabama with full knowledge of what it was doing." News and reader comments. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/03/0039223
- Monsanto Corporation Sucks - Monsanto uses biotechnology to genetically engineer our food and not label it.
www.monsantosucks.com
- Monsanto Held Liable in Alabama Court for Violation of Environmental Laws - "The jury in Gadsden, Ala., a town 20 miles from Anniston, held Monsanto and its corporate successors liable on all six counts it considered: negligence, wantonness, suppression of the truth, nuisance, trespass and outrage." News and archived reader discussion. [Plastic]
www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/02/23/2217255
- Monsanto Hid Decades of Pollution - For nearly 40 years, Monsanto dumped PCBs into a small Alabama city's stream and open-pit landfills. The company concealed its knowledge of the toxic effects. [Washington Post]
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31
- Monsanto Hit Big For PCB Liability - Report of $9.7 million judgement against Monsanto in Transwestern Pipeline Co. v. Monsanto Co. [National Law Journal]
www.gascape.org/index%20/PCB%20Award%20.html
- Monsanto in the McSpotlight - Activist group building a case about agriculture practices of this firm. Includes a succinct summary of Monsanto's unethical activities.
www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/companies/monsanto.html
- Monsanto kills Monarchs - Nearly half (44 percent) of monarch caterpillars that fed on pollen from Monsanto's engineered corn plants died, versus none of the caterpillars that didn't eat pollen. [Need to scroll down the page to find this story.]
www.motherjones.com/mustreads/051799.html
- Monsanto vs Schmeiser - Profile of the litigation between Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto with regard to Roundup-ready canola. News releases of this an similar cases in Federal Court of Canada.
www.percyschmeiser.com
- Monsanto Watch - Purefood Organizations Monitoring Monsanto section with updated news and links to scientific and popular articles about Monsanto's power brokering, political connections and allegedly unethical actions.
www.purefood.org/monlink.htm
- Monsanto's altered sugar beet is not sweet to Irish - "Speak 'truth' to 'power,' as the old saying goes. Ordinary folks in Ireland spoke up against the powerful multinational firm that profits by controlling farmers.
www.pmac.net/sugarbt.htm
- Monsanto's Cremation Starts in Karnataka - Strong words, aimed at crops that are being burned by farmers in India who learned the hard way that Monsanto's cotton variety (which was disease prone and required enormous pesticides) became bred into next years' cotton harvest in the whole region, rendering the fields useless.
www.igc.org/igc/en/hg/karnataka.html
- Monsanto's Expanding Monopolies from Seed to Water - "For Monsanto 'Sustainable Development' means the conversion of an ecological crisis into a market of scarce resources." [ZNet]
www.afd-online.org/wto/monsanto-monopoly-seeds2water.htm
- Monsanto's Genetically Modified Seeds Threaten World Production - Project Censored's #3 censored media story of 1998. "Monsanto Corporation has been working to consolidate the world seed market, and is now poised to introduce new genetically engineered seeds that will produce only infertile seeds at the end of the farming cycle."
www.projectcensored.org/stories/c1999.htm#3
- Monsanto's Greatest Hits - A chronology of company pursuits over the past 100 years, from Saccharin to "Terminator" seeds. [Metroactive]
www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.11.00/cover/gen-food2-0019.html
- Monsanto, GM Foods, Nutrasweet and Poisoning the Environment - "The Washington Post examines how Monsanto poisoned a small Alabama town for decades while covering up test results showing serious toxicity problems (for example: skin boiling off of fish within minutes of being placed in a stream that ran through residential areas) from the PCB's they were dumping in the water." News and discussion forum. [Plastic]
www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/02/0327246
- PCB Contamination Trial against Monsanto, Solutia Begins - "Claims that a chemical plant poisoned an Alabama community with PCBs for decades went on trial Wednesday, with lawyers for residents arguing the firm cared more about profits than lives." [Decatur Daily]
www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/020110/monsanto.shtml
- Report: Anniston's Monsanto Discharged Mercury - "Monsanto Corp.'s Anniston plant released mercury into the environment in the 1950s and 1960s, creating a potential environmental hazard that went unreported for more than three decades, according to a report." [Decatur Daily]
www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/010723/monsanto.shtml
- Revolving Door - Monsanto employees and government regulatory agencies employees are the same people.
www.purefood.org/Monsanto/revolvedoor.cfm
- Sask. farmer loses to biotech company - Monsanto successfully sued a Saskatchewan farmer for growing their patented canola without a license, from seeds that blew onto his land from a neighboring farm or from passing seed trucks. [CBC]
cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/03/29/monsanto_schmeiser010329
- Scientific Abuse and Possible Scientific Fraud in Monsanto Research - Details of abuse in Monsanto's methanol and formladehyde research related to aspartame (NutraSweet).
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse
- Seize the Day: Monsanto - Satirical song "Food 'n' Health 'n' Hope" about Monsanto, and fact file.
www.seizetheday.org/monsanto
- Stop Monsanto Now - Volunteer effort on Yahoo Club site by people concerned about the "new" Monsanto's power and motives.
groups.yahoo.com/clubs/stopmonsantonow
- Terminator Gene Technology - Terminator Gene Technology prevents farmers from saving their seed, breaking a heritage as old as farming itself. Historically farmers saved the best seed for next year's crop.
matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genaug/mar28.htm#anchor492913
- The Fake Persuaders - Article about Monsanto campaign to create fake people to post on Web sites to discredit scientific findings that may be bad for its image. [Guardian]
www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,715158,00.html
- Through a Glass Darkly: The Genetic Future of Eden - Corporate Efforts to control future agricultural seeds
matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genes/genes.html
- US Court Challenge to Monsanto - Monsanto and several other biotechnology companies are accused of legal wrongdoing in a US court. [BBC News]
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_564000/5649830.stm
- Vigil on Monsanto - Focus appears to be primarily on genetic engineering including the "Terminator Gene."
www.monsanto.vigil.net
- Why Activists Hate Monsanto - Opposes the 'Monsanto Company', describing reasons to act against this manufacturer of agricultural poisons.
www.love.telinco.co.uk/Monsanto/start.htm
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