Monsanto Argumentative Essay

Many people may not notice this but Monsanto has a big impact on, not only the United States, but the world’s food industry. Monsanto was originally apart of the industrial chemical business when it first started in 1901. But as the food industry continued to grow, Monsanto became apart of the food industry. Monsanto became apart of the food industry in 2002, but didn’t start only selling seeds until 2008. So there is still a 6 year period where they were selling chemicals and food products. Monsanto alone controls 76.3% of the world’s genetically modified(GM) seed market as of 2012, these crops are grown by the U.S., Brazil, and Argentina. 40.8% of the crops are grown in just america. So this proves that Monsanto controls a little over three-fourths

There was a farmer and someone told Monsanto that he was cleaning their seeds and the sent private investigators over to check and the farmer didn’t even know that they were with Monsanto. The farmer was sued and it cost him $1 millon just to fight against Monsanto, and that was before the trial even started, it would cost him another million dollars to try and win the case. In the end he decided to just pay Monsanto. But the all of this affected his personal life. Most of his farmer friend stopped talking to him in fear that Monsanto would come after them. It also affected a 2 year old boy named Kevin Eshoo. Kevin and his family went on a vacation and on the way back home Kevin had 3 hamburgers, which were Monsanto products, and Kevin died 14 days later. The hamburger was contaminated with E. coli, which is a bacterium that can cause severe food poisoning. The E. coli cause Kevin to have kidney failure. Kevin went from completely healthy to life-or-death sick within the first week of eating those hamburgers. Kevin died a few days after his first dialysis appointment. Kevin’s mom, Anna G. Eshoo, has been trying to pass the Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act, also known as Kevin’s law, ever since Kevin died. The bill will strengthen the USDA ability to set and enforce food safety and sanitation standards for meat and

They are using some of their former workers to help them pass laws that help their company and not the environment or the people that live in it. They rather ruin someone’s life then their company. Because of Monsanto, if someone is accused of seed cleaning thy can lose their friends, their money, and maybe even their farm which will prevent them from providing for their families. Kevin’s family can never really move on because they will forever have a feeling of someone missing in their family because there is someone missing. Anna Eshoo will have to forever live with the pain of losing her little boy that was only 2 years old. All Anna want is for Monsanto to apologize and to try and make an effort to prevent this from happening ever again. Monsanto might seem like a great company, but their impact on the world is not a great as they say it