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Monsanto Social Responsibility
Monsanto had been around over 100 years its start of as chemical company and now it is in agricultural business. “From PCBs to Agent Orange to Roundup, we have many reasons to question the motives of this evil corporation that claims to be working to reduce environmental destruction and feed the world with its genetically engineered GMO food crops. And the article continued, “Monsanto was heavily involved during WWII in the creation of the first nuclear bomb for the Manhattan Project via its facilities in Dayton Ohio and called the Dayton Project headed by Charlie Thomas, … it operated a nuclear facility for the federal government.” (Monsanto dark). Monsanto have been one of major supplier of “Round up GMO” products as the company history tells …show more content…
“From PCBs to Agent Orange to Roundup, we have many reasons to question the motives of this evil corporation that claims to be working to reduce environmental destruction and feed the world with its genetically engineered GMO food crops. And the article continued, “Monsanto was heavily involved during WWII in the creation of the first nuclear bomb for the Manhattan Project via its facilities in Dayton Ohio and called the Dayton Project headed by Charlie Thomas, … it operated a nuclear facility for the federal government.” (Monsanto dark). Monsanto have been one of major supplier of “Round up GMO” products as the company history tells consumers have been struggling trusting the company solving the world problem. From benefiting WWII that destroy Vietnam, that cause birth defect of many Vietnamese to the chemicals like “PCB” and “agent orange” that cause many health problem for many Americans it is hard to believe Monsanto standing side by side to bring world sustainable food …show more content…
This is diabolical move to aimed control and profit only Monsanto. The brief history of Monsanto threatened the image of other good hearted scientists work by making it to be difficult process.
“To date no verifiable untoward toxic or nutritionally deleterious effects resulting from the consumption of foods derived from genetically modified crops have been discovered anywhere in the world. Many millions of people have consumed foods derived from GM plants - mainly maize, soybean and oilseed rape - without any observed adverse effects.” (Genetically…) Beyond the dark history of Monsanto there is no solid evidence that show GMO products are not safe to be consumed. The FDA approve the its safety to be put on in the market. Other than conspiracy we should upraise the possibility that bring to us. In the beginning, I mentioned one of the major factor GMO food are not widely welcomed with in the society is consumers do not trust the intention of Monsanto. One thing consumers demanding to be put on labels if they have used GMO content food. Before GMO food comes we did not have problem on conventional way of manipulating genes but the configuration done in the lab consumers asking to be labeled. Although there is no concert law that requires GMO foods to be labeled the organic sector had been working hard to be separated from GMO food

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