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Modern-Day Monsanto
Monsantos Environmental Impact
As a chemical manufacturer, Monsantos day-to-day
operations have wreaked havoc on the environment and
public health, both in the United States and around the
world.
Approximately 99 percent of the polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) used by U.S. industry were produced
by Monsanto at its Sauget, Illinois, plant until Congress
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Monsanto began its research and production of agrochemicals in the 1960s. In 1982, Monsantos scientists
became the first to genetically modify a plant cell. 83
Throughout the 1990s, Monsanto gradually shed its
plastics, chemicals and fibers companies and rapidly
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