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Monsanto refused to attend the 4/26/99 hearing on rBGH in Canada. Mute testimony to their fear of direct contact with Dr. Bill von Meyer. Dr. von Meyer is a scientist who conducts genetic and biological research. He has conducted millions of dollars of health studies on chemical residues found in foods and reviewed the toxicity profile of dozens of chemicals prior to their manufacture and development. Monsanto formerly used the statements by the American Medical Association on rBGH with Senators and Congress and against Dr. von Meyer's review. The public should know that the officials at the AMA who endorsed rBGH were subsequently fired for cause.
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By the end of the 1980s, Monsanto had restructured itself and become a producer of specialty chemicals, with a focus on biotechnology products. Monsanto enjoyed consecutive record years in 1988 and 1989: sales were $8.3 billion and $8.7 billion, respectively. In 1988 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Cytotec, a drug that prevented gastric ulcers in high-risk cases. Sales of Cytotec in the United States reached $39 million in 1989.
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Robert B. Shapiro, the current chairman of the board and CEO of Monsanto, was recently given a taste of tofu cream pie by the "Anti-Genetix" splinter faction of the Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB). He was hit in the face with the pie (a sweet potato pie just missed its target) after giving the keynote address at the State of the World Forum conference in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California.
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In the fall of 1966, Monsanto hired a Mississippi State University biologist named Denzel Ferguson to conduct some studies around its Anniston plant. Ferguson, who died in 1998, arrived with tanks full of bluegill fish, which he caged in cloth containers and submerged at various points along nearby creeks. This is what he reported to Monsanto about the results in Snow Creek: "All 25 fish lost equilibrium and turned on their sides in 10 seconds and all were dead in 3 1/2 minutes."
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Dioxin from a Monsanto plant contaminated the community of Times Beach, Missouri. In 1982, 2,000 people were permanently relocated by the state government and the U.S. EPA-11 years after the contamination was first discovered, and eight years after the cause was identified as dioxin. Mental dysfunctions and immune system disorders have been found in children from the area.5
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Soon after the acquisition, disclosures about hundreds of lawsuits over Searle's IUD surfaced and turned Monsanto's takeover into a public relations disaster. The disclosures, which inevitably led to comparisons with those about A. H. Robins, the Dalkan Shield manufacturer that eventually declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, raised questions as to how carefully Monsanto management had considered the acquisition. In early 1986 Searle discontinued IUD sales in the United States. By 1988 Monsanto's new subsidiary faced an estimated 500 lawsuits against the Copper-7 IUD. As the parent company, Monsanto was well insulated from its subsidiary's liabilities by the legal "corporate veil."
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