Seed Money Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

Bartow J. Elmore

eBook - 2021

Winner of the 2022 IACP Award for Food Issues and Matters Finalist for the 2022 George Perkins Marsh Prize Finalist for the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business History An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world's largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm's blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. Award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore shows how th...e Roundup story is just one of the troubling threads of Monsanto's past, many told here and woven together for the first time. A company employee sitting on potentially explosive...

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W. W. Norton & Company
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English
Main Author
Bartow J. Elmore
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File Size18 GB
ISBN9781324002055
Release Date10/12/2021
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ASINB08X8L8KXV
Release Date10/12/2021
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ISBN9781324002055
Release Date10/12/2021