Monsanto: Origins of an Agribusiness Behemoth
2019, The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides, edited by Mitchel Cohen
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Today’s Monsanto (now part of Bayer) is a far more specialized operation than it was in the 1990s. While the Monsanto of the early 2000s to 2010s focused almost entirely on biotechnology, seeds, and a limited range of agrochemicals, especially its Roundup brand herbicides, it was once a broadly diversified chemical manufacturer, one of only four to be listed among the top ten U.S. chemical companies in every decade from the 1940s - 1990s. To better understand the company’s emergence as the leading developer and promoter of genetically manipulated agriculture and Roundup herbicides, it is important to first examine its history.
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