Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Monsanto does not meet Tufts’ standards of environmental sustainability


Monsanto does not meet Tufts’ standards of environmental sustainability

Monsanto abuses its immensely disproportionate amount of power at the cost of small businesses and the public good.

Evidence shows that the company was fully aware of the harmful effects of dumping PCBs into the environment, yet thoroughly ignored them so as not to "lose one dollar of business."

This is far from an isolated event: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) labeled the company as a "potentially responsible party" for about 93 contaminated sites in the United States. Monsanto also (with allegations of bribery) illegally dumped many toxic pollutants into several British landfills.

Roundup, a herbicide and one of Monsanto's leading products, is believed to have major negative health and environmental effects. Since patent laws are still valid for its compositional makeup, however, researchers cannot isolate which chemicals within the product cause the harmful results.


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