Monsanto and You - from chemical weapons to your kitchen table

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KBOO

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Air date:

Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:00am

Living with the Monsanto Chemical Corporation

This program was originally broadcast over the air on KBOO.fm in Portland, Oregon on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. It was part of the all-day public affairs fund drive special on challenging corporate power.

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This program was painstakingly researched but may contain information which is incomplete. There are likely inaccuracies herein which will be corrected based on reader feedback. Oversights and omissions can be corrected by YOUR research. Thank you for helping us get the facts on GMO products and their impacts on human health. (Skip to the end for food safety activist information).

#Keywords under discussion in this program include #Agent_Orange, #glyphosate, #Roundup, #AquAdvantage_Salmon, #rBST, #rGBH, #dioxin, #uniformity, #Codex_Alimentarius, #PCB, #brinjal,
#Knockout_mouse, #Oncomouse, #Enviropig, #Knockout_rat, #MON_809, #MON_810, #MON_863, #Amflora, #Golden_rice, Roundup_Ready, #Vistive_Gold, #Fish_tomato, #Flavr_Savr, #Bt_cotton, #tobacco, #Arabidopsis, #Canola, #Rose, #Glofish, #Ice-minus, #Hepatitis_B, #Onyx-015, #Inserting_DNA, #Biolistics, #Agrobacteria, #Transfection, #Electroporation, #Microinjection, #Viral_transformation, #Lipofection, #Recombinant_DNA, #Transgenesis, #Cisgenesis, #Pharming, #Transgene, #GMO, #Genetic_pollution, #Reverse_transfection, #terminator_gene, #Gene_therapy, #Genetic_enhancement, #Gene_knockout, #Gene_knockdown, #Gene_targeting, #genetically_modified_organisms, #Synthetic_biology, #Cloning, #Stem_cell

Get current Monsanto Chemical Company Details from Wikipedia or from the official Monsanto website

Current board of directors (February 2012) includes influential people like the president of South Dakota State University, and high-level executives from companies including McDonald’s, the Sara Lee Corporation, The Procter & Gamble Company, investment firm GenNx360 Capital Partners, Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, the biotechnology firm MPI Research, and two executives from Health Technology Networks.

Corporate governance and broader economic impacts

Explore the power, wealth and influence concentrated on Monsanto’s board of directors:

http://www.ranker.com/list/notable-monsanto-employees/reference

http://theyrule.net/ use this website to see the breadth of Monsanto’s corporate influence

Monsanto Products, Brands and Subsidiaries:

Dekalb - GMO seed for corn, grain sorghum, alfalfa, spring and winter canola)

Genuity - GMO soybeans, cotton, canola and sugarbeets

Seminis - home garden seed brands

Asgrow - GMO soybeans

Deltapine - GMO cotton

WestBred - GMO Wheat

Brinjal - GMO eggplant