| March 11, 2005 | - A New York judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and several other chemical companies on behalf of 4 million Vietnamese who were poisoned by the 80 million liters of Agent Orange sprayed during the Vietnam War. The judge said that there was no clear link between Agent Orange and the illnesses of the Vietnamese plaintiffs, even though the U.S. government currently pays compensation to ten thousand U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War impaired by Agent Orange.
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| February 26, 2002 | -
A jury found the Monsanto Company negligent in the decades-long pollution of Anniston, Alabama, where the company dumped thousands of pounds of PCBs into local creeks.
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| January 15, 2002 | -
Peter Melchett, the former head of Greenpeace UK and board member of Greenpeace International, took a job as a consultant with Burson-Marsteller, the largest PR firm in the world, a company whose clients have included Nigeria during the Biafran war, the Indonesian government after the massacres in East Timor, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, Union Carbide, and biotechnology companies such as Monsanto.
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| August 21, 2001 | - It was discovered that Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans, the world's most widely grown genetically engineered crop, contain a weird strand of DNA that the company cannot explain — right next to the bacterial DNA that was inserted to protect the plant from the herbicide Roundup.
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| January 9, 2001 | - American drug “czar” General Barry McCaffrey has claimed that Roundup, which is made by Monsanto, is “totally safe,” though Monsanto's warning label on U.S.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Friends of the Earth reported the discovery of Monsanto's “Roundup Ready” corn in European food; the genetically modified corn has not been approved in Europe for any use.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
Scientists at Monsanto were working on genetically modified lawn grasses that will come in bright new colors, require less water, and glow in the dark.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Monsanto said it would release patent rights to golden rice, a strain of genetically-altered rice that is rich in vitamin A, in order to help poor countries fight malnutrition.
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