Monsanto Social Responsibility

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This article talks about how the chemical company Monsanto has found a new area of expertise: agriculture. The world’s most popular herbicide, Roundup, is one of Monsanto’s manufacturing masterpieces, along with the Roundup Ready seed (Sale 14). The world has a growing population and needs more food. The company produces a powerful herbicide, known as Roundup, which practically kills any plant it touches. This is good for weeds because it makes it so the farmer does not have to walk out to the fields and manually pull out the weeds. But what if the crops become contaminated with Roundup? Monsanto has thought of the perfect solution; Roundup Ready seeds. These seeds are created by genetically altering them to become resistant to the poison that