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  2. Monsanto - Wikipedia

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    The Monsanto Company (/ m ɒ n ˈ s æ n t oʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major producer of genetically engineered ...

  3. Timeline of Monsanto - Wikipedia

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    Monsanto merges with Pharmacia and Upjohn, [1] so the agricultural division became a wholly owned subsidiary of the "new" Pharmacia. 2000: Corporation: Pharmacia spins off its Monsanto subsidiary into a new company, [1] the "new Monsanto" - which then raises $700 million in a new IPO. [32] The "new Monsanto" is legally distinct from the old pre ...

  4. The World According to Monsanto - Wikipedia

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    The World According to Monsanto is a 2008 film directed by Marie-Monique Robin. Originally released in French as Le monde selon Monsanto , the film is based on Robin's three-year-long investigation into the corporate practices around the world of the United States multinational corporation , Monsanto .

  5. Genetically modified food in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether genetically modified organisms can be patented. [8] The Court held that a living, man-made micro-organism is patentable subject matter as a "manufacture" or "composition of matter" within the meaning of the Patent Act of 1952.

  6. Edgar Monsanto Queeny - Wikipedia

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    After his father retired from the company, Edgar took over the leadership of Monsanto in 1928. [2] At this time, it had just been listed on the stock exchange as a public company. He led the company through the 1929 stock market crisis and its expansion into a major U.S. industrial company with a global presence before he retired in 1960.

  7. Monsanto Company - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 3 November 2011, at 03:10 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Hugh Grant (business executive) - Wikipedia

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    The 20th-century Monsanto Company, in the midst of a roughly five-year series of mergers and spin-offs (which had the effect of reducing its focus on chemicals in favor of biotechnology), legally ceased to exist in 2000. A new Monsanto Company was created and Grant became executive vice president and chief operating officer of this

  9. GMO OMG - Wikipedia

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    GMO OMG is a 2013 American pseudoscientific documentary film which takes a negative view towards the use of genetically modified organisms used in the production of food, in the United States. The film focuses on Monsanto , a multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation, and their role in the food industry alongside the ...