Seed money : Monsanto's past and our food future / Bartow J. Elmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elmore, Bartow J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsanto Company.

Agricultural chemicals industry--United States--History.

Agricultural chemicals industry.

Seed industry and trade--United States--History.

Seed industry and trade.

Plant biotechnology industry--United States--History.

Plant biotechnology industry.

Transgenic plants--United States--History.

Transgenic plants.

Agriculture--United States--History.

Agriculture.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"A deeply researched and eye-opening history that shows how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. This is the definitive history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world's largest genetically engineered seed enterprise. Monsanto 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. Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, award-winning historian Bartow J. Elmore traces Monsanto's astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agrobusiness powerhouse. Capitalizing on deals with customers like Coca-Cola, General Electric, and especially the US government, Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products-including PCBs and Agent Orange-to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. As new data emerges about its blockbuster Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore's urgent history takes a penetrating look at the company's past"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I SEEDS

Introduction: "Don't Do It. Expect Lawsuits."

pt. II ROOTS

ch. 1 "You Are Getting into Chemistry Now, Senator, on Which Subject I Am Rather Weak"

ch. 2 "A Coal-Tar War"

ch. 3 "A Die-Hard Admirer of the Tooth-and-Claw"

pt. III PLANTS

ch. 4 "Wonderful Stuff, This 2,4,5-T!"

ch. 5 "So You See, I Am Prepared to Argue on Either Side"

ch. 6 "Sell the Hell out of Them as Long as We Can"

ch. 7 "Strategic Exit"

ch. 8 "They Can Have My House; I Just Need Thirty Days to Get Out"

ch. 9 "Trespassing to Get to Our Own Property"

ch. 10 "The Only Weed Control You Need"

ch. 11 "I Have to Cry for Them"

pt. IV WEEDS

ch. 12 "Oh Shit, the Margins Were Very, Very, Very Good"

ch. 13 "They Are Selling Us a Problem We Don't Have"

pt. V HARVEST

Conclusion: "Malicious Code".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781324002048

1324002042

OCLC:

1233267796