(via Roger Ebert--he's just not movies anymore)
Monsanto is opposing efforts to have genetically modified food labeled as such; you can read more here:
http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-launches-campaign-stop-gmo-labeling/
Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, et al.) talks at great length about Monsanto in the potato chapter in his excellent Botany of Desire (if this book had a villain, it would be Monsanto).
and just who/what is Monsanto? you ask--from Wikipedia (I know, I know):
Monsanto is opposing efforts to have genetically modified food labeled as such; you can read more here:
http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-launches-campaign-stop-gmo-labeling/
Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, et al.) talks at great length about Monsanto in the potato chapter in his excellent Botany of Desire (if this book had a villain, it would be Monsanto).
and just who/what is Monsanto? you ask--from Wikipedia (I know, I know):
The Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is an American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed in the Roundup brand, and in other brands. Monsanto is also the second largest producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed; it provides the technology in 49% of the genetically engineered seeds used in the US market. It is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.[3]
Agracetus, owned by Monsanto, exclusively produces Roundup Ready soybean seed for the commercial market. In 2005, it finalized the purchase of Seminis Inc, making it the world's largest conventional seed company at the time.
Monsanto's development and marketing of genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone, as well as its litigation, political lobbying practices, and seed commercialization practices[4] have made the company controversial around the world and a primary target of the alter-globalization movement and environmental activists.
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