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Monsanto case analysis:
Company history:
Monsanto was created in 1901. The company's first product was the artificial sweete saccharin. saccharin. In the 1920s Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals.
During the 1940s Monsanto also become a leading manufacturer of synthetic fibres plastics, including polystyrene - ranked it’s chemicals whose production generates th most total hazardous waste.
By the 1980s Monsanto was being hit by a series of lawsuits. It was one of the compa named in 1987 in an $180 million settlement for Vietnam War veterans exposed exposed to Agent Orange, Monsanto had by then re-launched itself as an agricultural biotechno company. By 1990 with the help of Roundup, the agriculture division of Monsanto was significantly significantly outperforming Monsanto's chemicals division in terms of operating income, and the gap was increasing.
Monsanto's management knew that the last of the patents protecting Roundup in th United States, its biggest market, would expire in the year 2000, opening the field to potential competitors. competitors. The company urgently needed a strategy to negotiate this hur and prolong the useful life of its 'cash cow'."
By 2000 the current Monsanto had emerged from various transactions, including a merger for a time with Pharmacia, as a legally different corporation from the Monsa that had existed from 1901-2000
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Case analysis Introduction:
Monsanto Company an agricultural provider, the company produces different seed brands in large acre corps it also provides the seed trait technologies for farmers and manufactures. Its market is huge and their products cover wide range of places across the oceans especially in America, Europe, Australia and Africa.
During its Long history it falls into many lawsuits which kind of affected its reputati and build bad brand image into its customers field so it paid millions of dollars to
The genetic modification that most of the products had undergone did not add value the consumer side of the equation; Monsanto trying to promote GMOs where th You're Readingwas a Preview would be very little price reduction for consumers. Unlock full access with a free trial.
The mandatory labeling legislation extends its requirement to all food and food With Trial ingredients produced from GMOsDownload regardless of Free the detectable presence of DNA or protein within the final food product. These actions severely affected Monsanto, as labeling foods as GM would stigmatize/denounce the foods
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The company agreed to spend millions on medical testing and the cleanup of many ho
in different areas across the oceans where a legacy company once produced one of bad chemicals products.
Environmental and health record:
Monsanto has been identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as being "potentially responsible party". Monsanto has been sued, and has settled, multiple t for damaging the health of its employees or residents near its Superfund sites throug pollution and poisoning.
Monsanto is the largest producer of glyph sate herbicides through its popular brand, Roundup. A report released in June 2011 linked glyph sate to birth defects in and chicken embryos at dilutions much lower than those used in agricultural and ga spraying. Genetically modified organisms
Many of Monsanto's seed products are specifically genetically modified to make them resistant to Monsanto produced agricultural chemicals, such as "Round Up" herbici
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Monsanto was drawn into the Genetically modified food controversies over the Pusz affair. experiments suggested that it was the process of genetic engineering.
It was the process of genetic engineering itself, not the presence of pesticides caused the engineering which caused the damage to rats.
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Bo somatotropin abbreviated as rBST and commonly known as rBGH. It is a synthetic
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Environment Pollution.
Monsanto is wanted for questioning in relation to the genetic pollution of the planet Earth, force feeding global citizens genetically engineered foods and the global take of the planet's food sources.
The US and Canadian governments not only ignored the inherent risks of genetic engineering, they have aided Monsanto setting up an inadequate regulatory system t relies on risk assessment, industry science and voluntary compliance.
The environmental crime: As if polluting the planet with noxious PCBs, dioxins and harmful pesticides wasn't enough, now this leader in the genetic engineering industr threatening to alter the genes of every food crop on Earth.
The US and Canadian governments must hold Monsanto accountable for their crime against the environment and the global food supply. World governments need to agr on legally binding rules for corporations that hold them responsible for the actions n week at the Earth Summit.
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Unlock full access with a free trial. Strengths 1. It is one of the biggest agricultural product providers in addition it experience the agricultural business since 1901.With Free Trial Download 2. It has many customers across the world. 3. Leading producer of genetically engineered (GE)seed. 4. Strong and well-known brand. 5. Strong financial growth
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5. Interrelationships and acquisitions of companies will be the vehicles by which they can go forward and commercialize new product... Threats 1. Lawsuits regarding environmental violations 2. Inter-country Economies 3. Seed mutation possibilities cause more diseases 4. Culture barrier different views on GE foods 5. Technology taking over farmers role, causing unemployment
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Ethical culture that effectively responds to various stakeholders: During the past decade, Monsanto re-made itselfDownload into a seed and biotech With Free Trial company, as opposed to on focus on agrochemicals. This way, Monsanto was able to reduce some of the opposi to stakeholders. Shifting to corporate responsibility, Many critics are wary the long-term effects of of GM foods and environmental effects. Representations in media (Secondary Read Free Forworld 30this Days Sign up toThe vote on title stakeholders) such documentaries as “seeds of deception” according Useful Not useful Monsanto” and “Food Inc.” Cancel anytime.
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Their approval is important for Monsanto as the EU position on GM foods influence the global debate. Monsanto’s Roundup Ready variety of GM soybeans was among them.
GM soybeans could only be sold in US, Canadian and UK markets, the EU new rulin allowed GM soybeans into Europe had significantly increased Monsanto’s potential market .
Unfortunately, following the introduction, field trials were sabotaged and destroyed environmental protection organizations were vocally protesting GMOs, and Europea public opinion of GM technologies began a steady decline.
Monsanto made a decision to market and sell controversial products in areas that d not receive the benefit. Monsanto was unable to convince Europeans with either economic o environmental arguments supporting GMOs.
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