Definitions for "Monsanto"
(trade name) - a transnational corporation based in St. Louis, Missouri. Monsanto markets a huge range of products, with a particular focus on agricultural biotechnology.
A chemical company who have genetically modified soy so it can withstand tons of spraying of herbicide and still remain standing to then later be consumed as food. They give the soy seed away to unsuspecting farmers who are then obligated to buy the chemical weed killers to spray on their soy crops. In New Zealand, soy is banned from all their infant food products.
The US chemical company that went from being orange to being green. The major manufacturer of Agent Orange during the Viet Nam War is now leading the way for what is marketed as the 'next green revolution'. Monsanto has more than three hundred pending lawsuits against American farmers who have violated the trade restrictions on their 'patented seeds' and have so far driven several farm into insolvency, that have been taken by the banks. As of November '98 Monsanto is following-up more than 2000 leads of other violators in the US alone. Outside the US Monsanto has called upon the US Government to lobby on its behalf by having them threaten to pull out of a potential free-trade agreement with New Zealand if it went ahead with a law that would require labeling and testing of genetically modified food. New Zealand backed down under the pressure.
Keywords:  concelho, freguesia, idanha, hab, sup
Monsanto is a Portuguese freguesia in Idanha-a-Nova, with 131.76 km² and 1 160 inhabitants (2001). Density: 8.8 hab/km². It was the principal town of the concelho between 1174 and beginnings of 19th century.