{"id":2490,"date":"2024-01-20T20:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T20:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=2490"},"modified":"2024-01-20T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T20:43:50","slug":"bart-elmore-seed-money","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/bart-elmore-seed-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Bart Elmore &#8211; Seed Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bart Elmore, Associate Professor at Ohio State University (USA), discussed his book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/wwnorton.com\/books\/9781324002048\">Seed Money: Monsanto\u2019s Past and Our Food Future<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(W. W. 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A town whose residents are urged to avoid their basements because Monsanto\u2019s radioactive waste laces their homes\u2019 foundations. Factory workers who peel off layers of their skin before accepting cash bonuses to continue dirty jobs. An executive wrestling with the ethics of selling a profitable product he knew was toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incorporating global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped corporate and government records, Elmore traces Monsanto\u2019s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products\u2014including PCBs and Agent Orange\u2014to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology. Skyrocketing sales of Monsanto\u2019s new Roundup Ready system stunned even those in the seed trade, who marveled at the influx of cash and lavish incentives into their sleepy sector. But as new data emerges about the Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore\u2019s urgent history shows how our food future is still very much tethered to the company\u2019s chemical past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bart Elmore, Associate Professor at Ohio State University (USA), discussed his book\u00a0Seed Money: Monsanto\u2019s Past and Our Food Future\u00a0(W. W. 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