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RUNNING HEAD: Monsanto on our foods.
Monsanto: Ethical Issues in Agriculture
Cal Poly Pomona University
October 14, 2017
Monsanto

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RUNNING HEAD: Monsanto on our foods.
“We depend on the food we eat which begins in the soil, even the animals we eat have to
eat plants, which are grown from the soil” (Hartmann, 2010). We need to start with soil and seeds
to make food for everyday life. Soil is one of the most important things that sustain life. Plants
and animals grow, die and decay, leaving their minerals and organic materials in the soil. Now a
day, agricultural soil contains chemicals and organism caused by the pollution and contamination
made by humans. Many companies produce different kinds of herbicides and seeds that are
genetically engineered and these chemicals are then used by large-scale industrial farms to
produce our food. Genetically modified organisms do not only affect the plants, but also the
humans and animals through the chemicals that it contains and produces. One of the biggest
companies that produce GMO’s is Monsanto.
Monsanto offers different products throughout the world. It offers farmers a wide range
of corn, soybean, cotton, wheat, canola, sorghum and sugar cane seeds. In creating these
products, they use different methods and technologies. “We use our elite seed genetics and
cutting-edge traits and technologies to create products that meet farmers’ wants and needs”
(Monsanto, 2002-2017). Monsanto spends much more money through researching what the
farmers want, either its breeding or biotechnology. They also provide agricultural herbicides such


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