"Monsanto's Harvest of Fear" - Vanity Fair report details environmental legacy, treatment of farmers

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to respond to the articles published in the May 2008 edition of the Vanity Fair. At Monsanto, we conduct business including integrity, transparency and respect and strive to harmonize with our basic values. These values ​​are the core of our business practices and are key to our human rights policy. .. We ask your readers to see Monsanto not our media but our actions. They can learn more about the specific allegations we made in the articles in the "Records" section of our website.

However, critics have blamed Monsanto for damaging local farmers and public health through the bullying of large corporations. In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, there is a long article explaining some of Monsanto's controversial business practices, from seed patents to warning labels for milk cartons. It is called 'fear of Monsanto'. JAMES STEELE: One of the reasons is that one of these companies is under the radar screen for many Americans at the moment. Change of this company. I think many people will think about their chemicals, fibers, all these names - the company is famous for it

But Monsanto's past, especially its environmental heritage, is closely related to us. For many years, Monsanto has produced the two most toxic substances known to date - polychlorinated biphenyls, more widely known polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins. Monsanto is no longer being produced, but the places it is still struggling, and that may always be the case. At 12 miles downstream of Charleston, West Virginia, there is a town of nitro, which operated a chemical plant from 1929 to 1995. In 1948, plants began producing strong herbicides called 2,4,5-T called "weeds". Worker. A by-product of the process is the production of chemical substances called later. Dioxin