Monsanto News
Monsanto, the company criticised in a US court in 2002 for behaviour "so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible
bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society"
For more information, see Toxic Town (CBS News)
(Last updated 25 May 2005)
Genetically Modified Food - News
Company News : Monsanto
|
Bayer/Aventis/AgrEvo
|
Syngenta/Zeneca/Novartis/Ciba
|
Delta & PL/Dupont
|
Huntingdon/LSR
Take Action
Millions against Monsanto - Organic Consumers Association
Petition on Genetically Engineered Wheat
News
25 May 2005 - Indian Farmers Win Battle Against GM Cotton (IPS)
23 May 2005 - EU demands Monsanto's test results on controversial corn (AFP)
22 May 2005 - Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food (Independent, UK)
20 May 2005 - GM sweetcorn from Monsanto rejected by EU states, again (FoodNavigator)
6 May 2005 - Monsanto Dealt Defeat in Attempt to Invade Brazilian Schools (GM-Free Brazil)
17 March 2005 - Argentina slams Monsanto for "attitude" on GMO royalties (Dow Jones)
16 March 2005 - Monsanto: Biotech wheat revival unlikely (Reuters)
4 March 2005 - Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange sue US chemical companies (Independent, UK)
3 March 2005 - Greenpeace exposes Government-Monsanto nexus to cheat Indian farmers (Greenpeace)
28 February 2005 - Tillamook dairy farmers support hormone ban (Portland Business Journal)
20 January 2005 - Investors Challenge Monsanto Over Risks of Genetically Engineered
Products (AScribe Newswire)
13 January 2005 - Monsanto Assault on U.S. Farmers Detailed in New Report (NW)
7 January 2005 - Monsanto fined $1.5m for bribery (BBC News)
6 January 2005 - Monsanto fined $1.5m over Indonesia bribes (FT)
17 November 2004 - Agent Orange Victims Sue Monsanto (GNN)
4 October 2004 - Monsanto's wheat patent withdrawn in Europe (ANA)
20 September 2004 - Europe halts Monsanto maize (FoE)
14 August 2004 - "Voluntary reapers" tear up a GM field in the Loiret, France
28 June 2004 - Monsanto GM Maize Not Authorised by EU Commission (FoE)
15 June 2004 - GM rape causes concern (FWi)
10 June 2004 - No Difference Between Bt, Non-Bt Cotton Output (Financial Express, India)
27 May 2004 - Indonesia starts Monsanto inquiry (Wall Street Journal)
13 May 2004 - GM canola backs out of Australia (BBC News)
13 May 2004 - Monsanto abandons GM oil seed rape plans for Australia (FoE)
12 May 2004 - Biotechnology company to close GM canola program (ABC News, Australia)
11 May 2004 - Monsanto drops plans for GM wheat (BBC News)
11 May 2004 - Monsanto abandons worldwide GM wheat project (Guardian, UK)
10 May 2004 - Firm Shelves Plans for GM Wheat Crop (PA News)
10 May 2004 - Monsanto drops genetically engineered wheat (Greenpeace)
10 May 2004 - Monsanto drops GM wheat (FoE)
2 April 2004 - GM food crops get taken off the menu (The Australian)
22 March 2004 - Justice Widens Monsanto Indonesian Probe (Reuters)
20 February 2004 - Monsanto, Dow and Dupont dump more than $300k into smear campaign against measure H in Mendocino (LH)
16 February 2004 - EU to study Monsanto request to import GM maize (EUB)
16 February 2004 - Wheat Patent : Government Assures Action (Financial Express, India)
7 February 2004 - Monsanto's showcase project in Africa fails (New Scientist)
2 February 2004 - FDA, Monsanto need to reveal truth about growth hormone (Capital Times)
31 January 2004 - Monsanto's chapati patent raises Indian ire (Guardian, UK)
29 January 2004 - GM technology fails local potatoes (Daily Nation, Kenya)
28 January 2004 - 3 NGOs File Petition Against Wheat Patent For Monsanto (Financial Express, India)
27 January 2004 - Monsanto Seeks Support for GMO Wheat (Reuters)
26 January 2004 - The farmer, the canola and mighty Monsanto (Global & Mail, Canada)
18 January 2004 - Monsanto exits Argentina soy biz (Reuters)
13 January 2004 - Roundup Ready wheat may lead to more chemicals (Leader-Post, Canada)
9 January 2004 - Agriculture Canada ends testing of GE wheat developed with Monsanto (CNews)
7 January 2004 - Monsanto accused of price-fixing (Guardian, UK)
3 January 2004 - Monsanto delays registry of Roundup Ready wheat (National Post, Canada)
20 November 2003 - Monsanto agrees to annual audits on biotech wheat (Reuters)
14 November 2003 - Beware Monsanto’s Soybeans - Assessment Flawed (Pacific Ecologist)
16 October 2003 - GM food giant Monsanto starts retreat from Europe (Times, UK)
16 October 2003 - Monsanto departure pleases greens (BBC News)
16 October 2003 - Crops giant retreats from Europe ahead of GM report (Independent, UK)
16 October 2003 - Anti-GM Campaigners Scent Victory after Monsanto Pull-Out (Scotsman, UK)
16 October 2003 - GM crops harmful to wildlife: Another reason to halt commercialisation (GeneWatch UK)
15 October 2003 - Monsanto Posts Loss, to Cut Jobs (Fox News)
15 October 2003 - GM crops giant Monsanto pulls out of Europe (Daily Telegraph, UK)
15 October 2003 - Monsanto Posts Loss, to Cut Jobs (Fox News)
12 September 2003 - Monsanto greenhouse destroyed (Guardian, UK)
11 September 2003 - Indian farmers target Monsanto (BBC News)
9 September 2003 - Brazil court overturns GM soy ruling (just-food.com)
6 September 2003 - Monsanto's French GM Maize Crop Attacked (Reuters)
4 September 2003 - Bayer won't buy Monsanto (Farmers Weekly)
25 August 2003 - A Farmer Prepares for Final Battle Against Monsanto (TierraAmerica)
22 August 2003 - GM food group Monsanto settles child cancer claims (Daily Telegraph, UK)
21 August 2003 - Monsanto in $700m pollution settlement (Guardian, UK)
8 August 2003 - Litigation liabilities may cost Monsanto Co. $2.3 billion (Agribusiness Examiner)
4 August 2003 - Monsanto investors warned of Solutia-related threat (Reuters)
14 July 2003 - Monsanto sues and sues and sues and... (CropChoice News)
5 June 2003 - Strike the Fiercest Blow Against Monsanto (KMP, Philippines)
3 June 2003 - Brazil activists target Monsanto (BBC News)
31 May 2003 - Monsanto Struggles Even as It Dominates (New York Times)
31 May 2003 - Monsanto names new chief exec - Struggling to reinvent itself (Bangkok Post)
28 May 2003 - Monsanto GMO wheat far from winning market okay (Reuters)
16 May 2003 - Brazil militants invade Monsanto biotech test farm (Reuters)
6 May 2003 - Monsanto Climbing a Financial Limb? (GGA)
23 April 2003 - Broken Promise? Monsanto Promotes Terminator Seed Technology (ETC Group)
18 April 2003 - Glyphosate Resistance Issues Build (FP)
17 April 2003 - Monsanto's shock and awe
15 April 2003 - Field data on India's first Bt cotton harvest (Gene Campaign)
5 April 2003 - Monsanto barred from selling seeds in Bihar (IA News)
3 April 2003 - More Damages Awarded In Alabama Solutia PCB Case > SOI (DJ)
15 March 2003 - USDA mulls strict rules for Monsanto biotech wheat (Reuters)
14 March 2003 - Justice Department Opens Monsanto Probe (AP)
19 February 2003 - Roundup Unready (New York Times)
21 January 2003 - Historic claim against PCB producers (FoE Norway)
14 January 2003 - Widely Used Crop Herbicide Is Losing Weed Resistance (NY Times)
10 January 2003 - Roundup-resistant weeds are cropping up (Des Moines Register)
9 January 2003 - Monsanto puts GM wheat before regulators (Reuters)
19 December 2002 - Monsanto Seeks Successor, May Face More Upheaval (WSJ)
18 December 2002 - Monsanto president resigns; shares fall (Reuters)
18 December 2002 - Monsanto President Verfaillie Resigns (AP)
10 November 2002 - Toxic town; town of Anniston, Alabama, is contaminated due to manufacture of PCBs (CBS News)
30 October 2002 - Monsanto posts wider loss as Roundup sales slump (Reuters)
22 October 2002 - Monsanto drops pursuit of genetically engineered lawn grass (CTA)
25 September 2002 - Studies show Roundup herbicide to be hormone disruptor (CropChoice News)
23 August 2002 - Roundup-resistant weeds add to Monsanto's quotient of woe (CropChoice News)
20 August 2002 - Troubled Monsanto scales down GM hopes in Europe (Guardian, UK)
19 August 2002 - Monsanto scales down hopes on GM foods: Company assumes no progress on approval before 2005 (Financial Times)
8 August 2002 - Italian court probes 10 seed companies over GMOs (Reuters)
31 July 2002 - Delay Is Seen for Genetically Modified Wheat (New York Times)
23 July 2002 - Monsanto Earnings Down on Bad Debt (AgWeb)
15 July 2002 - Monsanto stock slips on Pharmacia-Pfizer deal (Reuters)
21 June 2002 - Monsanto stock falling (gmfoodnews.com)
12 June 2002 - Monsanto lowers profit views, cites Latin America (Reuters)
4 June 2002 - China GMO cotton bad for environment(Reuters)
24 May 2002 - Schmeiser: Monsanto lying about 98 percent of his crop being genetically modified (CropChoice News)
14 May 2002 - The fake persuaders - Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet (Guardian, UK)
1 May 2002 - Monsanto - up to its dirty old tricks again (The Ecologist)
23 April 2002 - EU confirms growth hormones pose health risk to consumers (just-food.com)
15 April 2002 - Consumer-Environmental Coalition Files Legal Action Seeking Criminal Investigation of Monsanto and Aventis (CFS)
15 April 2002 - Monsanto Says Crops May Contain Genetically-Modified Canola Seed (Wall Street Journal)
15 April 2002 - Monsanto admits canola seed could harbour unapproved GM seed (just-food.com)
8 April 2002 - Fight against Monsanto vaults farmer into spotlight (Globe and Mail Canada)
4 April 2002 - Monsanto Plans 5% Work-Force Reduction, Reiterates Earnings Outlook (Dow Jones)
3 April 2002 - Biotech dispute settled out of court by Monsanto and DuPont (just-food.com)
27 February 2002 - Monsanto Ordered To Cough Up (IRN)
25 February 2002 - Jury decides against Monsanto, Solutia in PCB case (Reuters)
25 February 2002 - Monsanto found guilty of polluting (Guardian UK)
23 February 2002 - Jury finds Monsanto liable for releasing tons of PCB (Washington Post)
19 February 2002 - Agribusiness company involved in dispute with farmers who are reusing seeds (AP)
1 February 2002 - Wall Street Analyst Predicts Less Profits for Monsanto (Reuters)
1 February 2002 - Market Pressure: Busting BGH and Biotech (BioDemocracy News)
11 January 2002 - Western Canada organic farmers sue Monsanto, Aventis over modified canola (AFP)
11 January 2002 - State Dept Helps Monsanto Cover Up Fallout from Biowarfare in Colombia (CBS News)
7 January 2002 - Monsanto accused of cover-up (Guardian UK)
10 January 2002 - GM Food Giant Killed Our Sons, Say Families (The Australian)
7 January 2002 - Solutia shares drop on chemical dumping worries (Reuters)
1 January 2002 - Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution (Washington Post)
6 December 2001 - Amersham may abandon biotech IPO plan (Reuters)
29 November 2001 - US drug giant to spin-off Monsanto agriculture business, cites falling sales (just-food.com)
28 November 2001 - Drugs giant drops GM subsidiary (Guardian UK)
28 November 2001 - Pharmacia to Shed Monsanto (Reuters)
23 November 2001 - Glyphosate resistance is showing a worldwide rise (Farmers Weekly)
12 November 2001 - Pharmacia seen spinning off Monsanto (Reuters)
23 October 2001 - US giant attacked over soya patent bid (South China Morning Post)
25 September 2001 - Monsanto goes after Indiana farm family (Crop Choice News)
20 August 2001 - Courts force Brazil government to retreat on Monsanto GMO soy (Dow Jones)
16 August 2001 - CBOT soy futures tumble on Roundup Ready soy news (Reuters)
9 August 2001 - Brazil backs off approving GM soybeans (Reuters)
23 July 2001 - Monsanto plant spilled tons of mercury (ENS)
19 July 2001 - Monsanto tangles with more Canadian farmers on licensing (Canadian Press)
11 June 2001 - China's GM rules to slow Monsanto's Bt corn plan (Reuters)
10 April 2001 - Italy police seize more Monsanto seed in raid (Reuters)
30 March 2001 - Italians hunt illegal GM seed (Guardian UK)
28 March 2001 - Italian police raid Monsanto GM stockpile (BBC News)
26 March 2001 - Suspected GM maize seized from Monsanto in Italy (Reuters)
6 March 2001 - Monsanto pulls plug on NatureMark spuds (Ontario Farmer)
1 March 2001 - Canola GM 'volunteers' crop up in Tasmania despite ban (Sydney Morning Herald)
8 February 2001 - U.S. states seek laws to limit new biotech wheat (Reuters)
6 February 2001 - Italy environmentalists urge EU ban on GM soybeans (Reuters)
7 November 2000 - Monsanto growth seen curbed by ag biotech furor (Reuters)
21 October 2000 - EU backs Italy in GM food ban (Bloomberg)
19 August 2000 - Protesters rally outside Monsanto's corporate offices (AP)
18 August 2000 - Monsanto Day of Action
1 August 2000 - Dusty Desperadoes Raid Monsanto (Genetix Alert)
14 July 2000 - Brazil agency halts GM research at Monsanto unit (Reuters)
30 June 2000 - Brazil court foils Monsanto again on GM soybeans (Reuters)
4 June 2000 - The people v Monsanto (Observer UK)
30 May 2000 - Monsanto seeds contain 'rogue' DNA (Scotland on Sunday)
29 May 2000 - What Monsanto knew (The Nation)
3 May 2000 - Monsanto lab in Crystal closes amid food protests (Bangor Daily News)
28 April 2000 - McDonald's, and other fast food chains, pull Monsanto's bio-engineered potato (Wall Street Journal)
31 March 2000 - GM giant criticised over adverts (BBC News)
28 January 2000 - Monsanto's name radically modified (Guardian UK)
28 January 2000 - Thais resisting Monsanto's Bt cotton (Reuters)
22 December 1999 - GM-free canteen for Monsanto staff (BBC News UK)
22 December 1999 - GM food banned in Monsanto canteen (Independent, UK)
22 December 1999 - Agribusiness fears dog Monsanto, Pharmacia (Reuters)
21 December 1999 - Investors sour on Drug Merger (New York Times)
21 December 1999 - Monsanto pays GM price (Guardian UK)
20 December 1999 - Monsanto in 32bn merger (PA News)
20 December 1999 - Terminator is dead (Reuters)
16 December 1999 - British green groups welcome Monsanto lawsuit (Reuters)
16 December 1999 - Biotech crop allegations against Monsanto detailed (Reuters)
15 December 1999 - French farmer blames Monsanto for GM woe (Reuters)
15 December 1999 - Monsanto Sued Over Use of Biotechnology in Developing Seeds (New York Times)
20 November 1999 - Monsanto's modified soya beans are cracking up in the heat (New Scientist UK)
14 November 1999 - Monsanto faces its many options (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
22 October 1999 - Monsanto pressured to sell off GM assets (Guardian UK)
11 October 1999 - Monsanto weedkiller wipes out beneficial insects (Independent UK)
9 October 1999 - How Monsanto's mind was changed (Guardian UK)
6 October 1999 - Greenpeace and Monsanto spell out GM creeds (BBC News UK)
5 October 1999 - Concern remains as Monsanto drops gene (New York Times)
5 October 1999 - Monsanto Bows to a Biotech Backlash (Time)
3 October 1999 - Monsanto stock takes a beating amid biotech worries (St Louis Post-Despatch)
27 September 1999 - Monsanto rethinking UK strategy (Reuters)
26 September 1999 - Monsanto bows to pressure (BBC News UK)
15 September 1999 - Monsanto fears trial sabotage (New Zealand Press Association)
18 August 1999 - Monsanto's Genetically Modified milk ruled unsafe by the United Nations (NPICenter)
11 August 1999 - Monsanto ads censured (Reuters)
11 August 1999 - Advertising Standards Agency tells Monsanto to stop making GM safety claim (Independent UK)
11 August 1999 - Monsanto misleading (BBC News UK)
5 August 1999 - Monsanto Faces Growing Skepticism on Two Fronts (New York Times)
August 1999 - Monsanto (Advertising Standards Authority)
23 July 1999 - Monsanto to topple Brazil GM soy ruling (Reuters)
13 July 1999 - Monsanto : The seeds of dispute (Financial Times UK)
4 July 1999 - Monsanto's lobby firm pays key MP (Observer UK)
2 May 1999 - Monsanto investigators accused of trespassing (Washington Post)
9 Apr 1999 - Monsanto legal move sparks civil rights row (Independent UK)
29 Dec 1998 - Monsanto should halt genetic engineering (St Louis Post-Despatch)
Other Information Sources
Monsanto Stock Investment News (Ethical Investing)
Monsanto - World's Most Unethical and Harmful Investment
www.monsanto.org
Monsanto in the McSpotlight
www.monsantosucks.com
www.nonsanto.com
Percy Schmeiser - "Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan Canada whose canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready canola. Monsanto's position is that it doesn't matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Roundup Ready gene and that he must pay their Technology Fee."
www.pharmacia.org.uk