Getting to No Monsanto - 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 podcast includes three interviews with Oregon residents who have stories to tell about Monsanto Chemical Corporation. It was originally broadcast over the air on KBOO.fm in Portland, Oregon on Friday, February 10th 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 yet contain information which is incomplete. There may be 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 Transgene, GMO, Genetic_pollution, Reverse_transfection, terminator_gene, 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, Brinjal, Rose, Glofish, Ice-minus_bacteria, Hepatitis_B, Onyx-015, Biolistics, Agrobacteria, Transfection, Electroporation, Microinjection, Viral_transformation, Lipofection, Recombinant_DNA, Transgenesis, Cisgenesis, Pharming, Gene_therapy, Genetic_enhancement, Gene_knockout, Gene_knockdown, Gene_targeting, Transgene, Genetic_pollution, 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

Regulating and Governing Bodies

United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Department of Agriculture

United Nations

Codex Alimentarius

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Monsanto Products, Brands and Subsidiaries: