#197 - Bartow J. Elmore on SEED MONEY

Award-winning professor and writer Bart Elmore chats with Trey Elling about SEED MONEY: MONSANTO'S PAST AND OUR FOOD FUTURE. Questions include: What does Coca Cola have to do with Monsanto's earliest days? When did Monsanto get into agricultural chemicals and pesticides? Was Monsanto actively covering up the potential harms of the chemicals the produced 50+ years ago? What is the Technology Use Agreement (TUA) Monsanto requires farmers to sign who use their genetically engineered seeds? How big a problem was the radioactive phosphate slag that the EPA discovered at Monsanto's Soda Springs, ID facility in the 1970s? How did Monsanto react to farmers reporting of Roundup-resistant weeds in the early 2000s? How influential is Monsanto within local, state, and federal governments? Why did Bayer buy Monsanto in 2018, considering all of the legal problems piling up for the latter? Have GE crops improved food production, like MOnsanto has promised since the 1990s?