1901 John
Francis Queeny founded Monsanto to begin production of artificial sweetner
saccharin.
1906 Harvey
Wiley Doctor , teacher and scientist , including for US Department Agriculture
(USDA) and Bureau of Chemistry (which later became FDA) , waged warfare
against adulterated food and drugs and is credited with the inception of Pure
Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Wiley met with President Roosevelt to warn of
saccharin dangers and get it banned . Saccharin gets free pass as head of
Referee Board of Consulting Experts was biased as he discovered saccharin.
1971 Stops
production of saccharin
1981 Saacharin banned in US . Soft drink producers replace it
with Aspartame . Although the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) deems both saccharin and aspartame to be safe,
various consumer safety groups and health professionals disagree.
1985
Monsanto partners with IG Farben ( who produced Zyklon B gas used in German WWII
concentration camps to murder Jews) to market Aspartame . Monsanto buys GD
Searle, who make aspartame , for $ 2.7 billion.
2010
Saccharin taken off us hazardous list
To
this day they are both usually listed as toxic in the consumer food additives
lists .
Monsanto gets into the more lucrative
and dangerous Biotech and agriculture business.
1920s
Monsanto expands into now banned poly chlorinated biphenys (PCBS) .
1945
Monsanto begins production of agricultural chemicals such as 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic (2,4-D ) and DDT . Which is approved the same
year by EPA for public insecticide use.
1956 Navy
tests determine the hydraulic fluid Monsanto is trying to sell to the military
is associated with liver damage in humans .
1962-1971
Monsantos 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T combined (as well as kerosene and diesel fuel) to make agent orange and spray
20million gallons of it to defoliate trees and shrubs and kill
food crops in war on Vietnamese
by USA.
1967 Dicamba (3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid) is a broad-spectrum herbicide first registered.
1972 USA bans DDT based on its adverse environmental effects, such as those to
wildlife, as well as its potential human health risks. Direct DDT exposure
toxic effects in humans include developmental abnormalities [17], reproductive disease [18], neurological
disease [19], and cancer [20].
1974 Glyphosate herbicide patented and
brought it to market in 1974,
under the Roundup brand name. Is now the worlds most used herbicide making
Monsanto Billions $.
1976
Introduces synthetic herbicide roundup.
1979 2,4,5-T
started being phased out in USA.
1981
& 1983 Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT Labs) performed more than
one-third of all toxicology testing in
the United States.[3][4][5] IBT
was later confirmed of engaging in extensive scientific misconduct,
or more properly, fraud, which resulted in the indictment of its president and
several top executives in 1981 and convictions in 1983 including for Monsanto
to pass EPA restrictions..
1984
Monsanto pays out 180 millions of dollars to Vietnam vets exposed to agent
orange in out of court settlement. Monsanto blamed the government.
1985
2,4,5-T banned in USA
due to containing high levels of dioxin, a
contaminant, found to cause cancer and other health problems in people.
Mid
1980’s About this time EPA catergorises Roundup possibly carcinogenic which
gets withdrawn in 1990s due to pressure in a controversial decision against
advice.
1987
NZ one of the last countries bans 2,4,5-T
1991
Craven Laboratories who Monsanto use for testing its poisons , were found to be
falsifying data , 15 people fined or imprisioned.
1991
Dennis Baco Attorney General forces
Monsanto to stop their false and misleading roundup ads on safety ,
breaking federal legislation In New York but continued in rest of USA states.
2003
Monsanto pays out over $700m to Anniston Alabama residents over dumping PCB and
resulting health problems.
2012
Monsanto spends $8.1 million funding campaign opposing California’s proposition
37 on putting GMOs on food labelling , which subsequently doesn’t pass. GMOs
have many problems but one is it allows more roundup to be used on fields.
2012
Monsanto settles lawsuit for about $100million from Nitro West Virginia in
which a plant there produced 2,4,5-T used in agent orange from 1949 to 1971
August 2013, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines
Authority (APVMA) banned selected 2,4-D high volatile ester (HVE)
products due to their environmental hazards.
2014
Dewayne Johnson, former groundskeeper,
won a landmark case, with the jury determining that Monsanto’s Roundup
weedkiller caused his cancer and that the corporation failed to warn him of the
health hazards from exposure. The jury further found that Monsanto “acted with
malice or oppression”. Supported by other farmers and not by others.
2014
The International Agency for Research on
Cancer (IARC) reviewed Glyphosate and IARC's assessment was that
glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen .
2015
The International agency for Research on Cancer declares 2,4-D a possible human
carcinogen
Monsanto
reacts by hiring Intertek (formerly Cantox Inc) to orchestrate a “independent “
study and a media campaign to discredit IRACs report according to Lee Johsons
lawyer Brent Wishner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4
2018
Lee Johnson sues Monsanto which ended up releasing the Monsanto
Papers which tell an alarming story of ghostwriting (writing its own scientific
test papers) , scientific manipulation, collusion with the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), and previously undisclosed information about how the
human body absorbs glyphosate. Including that Monsantos leading chief
toxicologist said in 2003 we can not make the claim roundup is safe as we
haven’t done the necessary tests.
Monsanto internal
documents/emails show monsanto handled
Williams Kross and Munro 2000 (former health Canada official ceo of cantox inc)
regarding studies by” independent scientific experts” by ghostwriting according
to Bill Heydens by emails .
2018 A
failure to renew glyphosate's licence by the end of the year would see an EU
ban kick in on Jan. 1, 2018.
2018 German
pharmaceutical giant Bayer buys Monsanto for $63 B and announces end to
residential sales of Roundup in USA to stop being sued.
2019, a class action was commenced against Monsanto Canada and
Bayer on behalf of all individual residents in Canada (excluding Quebec) who
were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma after having used and/or been
exposed to Roundup after 1976.
2021 Bayer announces
it will remove Roundup from residential consumer market by 2023 to reduce its litigation payouts due to tens
of thousands of lawsuits brought by people
alleging they developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
2021 Bayer announces
plans to make mRNA vaccines
2,4-D is still approved by EPA in USA
The Australian
Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) hasn’t reviewd IARCs
findings . Its also fundamently open to corruption as its funded by the same corporations it polices.
Its since announced it wont relook at it . Both APVMA and the NZEPA conclude glyphospahte is safe, allowing its
use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszHrMZ7dx4
Monsanto hides its own studies
showing toxicity.
GMOs
Yes. In 1980, the US Supreme Court ruled in Diamond v. Chakrabarty that genetically altered life can be
patented (non Monsanto case).
1993
Nov. The FDA approved rBST (recombinant Bovine (cow) somatotropin)
1994
Introduces first GM product rBGH (recombinant
Bovine growth hormones)
1996
Introduces its first roundup ready soyabeans (to sell more roundup) and insect
resistant cotton seeds.
1998
Round up resistant weeds first found – 24 to date
1998
Oct – 3 scientists testify before Canadas senate committee in attempt to stop
rBGH citing by bribery . Canada and EU bans use of rBGH. All 3 scientists fired
1998 Dec . The Center for Food Safety and more than two dozen consumer groups
announced today at an EMS Press Breakfast that they have filed a petition to
reverse the FDA’s approval of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH).
2000 The StarLink corn recalls occurred in the autumn of 2000, when
over 300 food products were found to contain a genetically modified corn that had not been approved for human consumption.[1] It was the first-ever recall of a genetically modified food. The anti-GMO activist coalition Genetically Engineered Food
Alert, which detected and first reported the contamination, was critical of the FDA for not doing its job.
Monsanto starts suing famers whos
neighbours plants escaped onto their land . Theyve filed 90 lawsuits.
2002 emerged in mid April that large
amounts of oil seed rape (canola) currently on sale in the US may be
contaminated with low levels of an unapproved Monsanto GM crop line. GT200 is a
variety of herbicide tolerant oil seed rape that has not been cleared for
commercial growing or consumption in the US. Instead of tackling the problem at
source by removing GT200 contaminated products from the market, Monsanto have
decided to get the legislation changed. If the contamination is no longer
illegal, in their eyes it is no longer a problem. Monsanto approached the US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) admitting the potential for accidental
contamination of US canola seed, and requesting that the contaminated crop be
declared legal. The USDA are awaiting advice from that pillar of independent
scientific thinking the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The incestuous
nature of the revolving door of personnel between the FDA and Monsanto is well
documented elsewhere.
2002 "Corngate"
was a political scandal which took place in New
Zealand in 2002 and involved
the suspected release of genetically modified maize (corn) seed in 2000. Helen clark denied
(lied) it had happen iniatially.
A select committee, including members of the Green Party, was formed to
investigate the matter. Green Party statements claim the committee was
"obstructed" by Syngenta refusing to release test results.[2] The same company involved in bee deaths.
The Syngenta Group is a
leading global provider of agricultural science and technology, in particular seeds and crop protection
products, with its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland Syngenta AG was founded in 2000 by the merger of the
agrichemical businesses of Novartis and AstraZeneca,
2005
Purchased Seminis seed giant. Monsanto now controls 40% of seed market.
2008 Aug . Monsanto Company announced
this morning that it was "pursuing a divestiture of its dairy product,
rBGH.
2011 Sep. Monsanto acquired Beeologics for an undisclosed amount. Beeologics is an international firm
dedicated to restoring bee health and protecting the future of insect
pollination. Highly ritical of Monsanto until bought out by them.
2012
a French court found Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a farmer who
reported suffering neurological problems after using one of the company's
herbicides.
2013 Mar . Obama signs section 735
Bill into legislation - nick named the Monsanto protection is
actually a provision within a recently passed Congressional spending bill, H.R.
933, which exempts biotech companies from litigation in regard to the making, selling
and distribution of genetically engineered (GE) seeds and plants.
2013 Freelance reporter
Chris Parker wrote an expose of Monsanto in the Village Voice newsweekly saying
Monsanto seeds cover 40% of Americas crop acres and 27% worldwide.
2017 Xtend (GMO) soybeans were launched
with the dicamba herbicide . They were used on 20 million acres, or 22% of U.S.
plantings. They quickly grew to cover 44 million acres in 2018, or 49% of
plantings
2019 India’s
Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Monsanto can claim patents on its
genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds, a victory for the U.S. company that is
expected to encourage biotechnology firms to step up investment in the country.
2019 Several law firms
now have filed a lawsuit on behalf of farmers against Monsanto,
arguing that the company violated antitrust law by selling dicamba-tolerant
seeds. The lawsuit claims that the company understood that the risk of drifting
dicamba could drive competitors out of the market. According to these farmers,
they had no choice but to buy the seeds from Monsanto drifting dicamba onto
their crops from neighbours.
2020 Bayer agreed to pay $10 billion to 125,000 lawsuits that
Roundup causes cancer. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/business/roundup-settlement-lawsuits.html
2020 Monsanto
agreed to pay $95 million to Washington State and $52 million to the District of Columiba in settlement of allegations of
selling PCBs while aware they were more toxic than generally known and
misleading consumers and regulators about their toxicity, resulting in damage
to the environment and cleanup costs.
Use of rBGH is banned in more than 30 countries. The use of
rBGH has been banned in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and all 27
nations of the European Union. While rBST is has more controversial approaal
and restricts in more countries.
Monsanto was a
big contributor to the right wing American Legislative Council (ALEC )a
business lobby group that is accused of more than influencing USA government
policys and legislation but also write them. The 13th documentary
accuses it of writing the 3 strikes law that
helps criminalise African –Americans.
ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front
group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand
state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations
fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces
where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials
to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and
Democracy's ALECexposed.org, and check out breaking news on our ExposedbyCMD.org site. https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto
Through the
corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and
state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that
govern your rights. These so-called
"model bills" reach into almost every area of American life and often
directly benefit huge corporations.
In ALEC's own words, corporations have "a VOICE and a VOTE"
on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state. DO
YOU? Numerous resources to help us expose ALEC are provided
below. We have also created links to detailed discussions of key issues, which
are available on the left.
https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
As a report from Food and
Water Watch pointed out last year,
the board’s connections—past and present—to big food and big business has
helped build a friendly audience, in business and in government, for its
products:
Monsanto’s board members have
worked for the EPA, advised the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and
served on President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and
Negotiations. They presided over multiple universities in various senior
positions, including South Dakota State University (with whom Monsanto has a
significant research agreement), Arizona State’s Biodesign Institute and Washington
University in St. Louis. The prevalence of Monsanto’s directors in these highly
influential positions begs a closer look at how they’re able to push the pro-GE
agenda within the government and influence public opinion.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/02/18/monsanto-board-directors
Monsanto
is rated as one of the top 5 most evil corporations in the worlds. 4 of them
are American !!
https://www.rt.com/business/420349-five-most-evil-companies/
Bayer and neonicotinoid’s
Bees are an
important source of pollination of tree and other plants humans rely on for
food.
1991
Bayers own study concludes imidacloprid blocks receptors and is irreversible
before its even commercially released.
Mid
1990s Jean-Marc Bonmartin Toicologist who worked for French “Centre De Biophysique Moleculaire” was
commisoned by French Agriculture Ministry to investigate mass bee deaths –
Bayers Imidacloprid insecticide was suspected. Bayer
was involved in the testing which was subsequently corrupted . Bayer remained
unaccountable . Separate independent
tests showed it highly poisonous.
1999
France bans a neonicotinoid initially for sunflowers
after bee deaths. Bonmartin pressured by Bayer to be quiet and hide results. It
was revelled in a court case against Bayer to ban other neonicotinoids that
Bayer had skipped a part of the approval process.
2008
Germany announced study on declining bee population because of insecticides
being blamed . It was monitored by insecticide makers Bayer and Syngenta who
takes part in study. Study found no link between neonicotinoids and bee deaths
. The Beekeepers Association walked out of study in protest
Spanish
toxicologist Sanchez –Bayo conducted study on other wildlife –, and found 40%
insects declining.
2013 Neonicotinoids put on corn seeds kill millions of bees in
Germany . UN bans it on corn but allows it on other crops. Bayer and Syngenta
take EU to court and in meantime wins a court case banning protests outside
their AGM sighting terrorism.
2018 France becomes
first country to ban all Neonicotinoids
2020 Spanish toxicologist Sanchez –Bayo conducted study on
Japanese ricefields and nicotinoids and its effects other water life and found
it weakens their immune systems allowing
parasites to invade and kill – he was fired
but published the studies anyway
Europe relies on
insecticide manufacturers own tests which they hold in corporate secret and go
unpublished so no one knows or can check what authorities have seen and checked
in a sick licensing system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNSByf4sLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frCIYEyURV0
Bayer is not the only company poisoning earth and us , just one of the big ones
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