Monsanto is an agriculture company that is well known for creating pesticides such as Roundup. These pesticides are bad for the environment and believed to be bad for health as well.
As written in Scitable, a publication from Nature Education:
After countless studies, pesticides have been linked to cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, ADHD, and even birth defects. Pesticides also have the potential to harm the nervous system, the reproductive system, and the endocrine system. Pesticides can even be very harmful to fetuses because the chemicals can pass from the mother during pregnancy or if a woman nurses her child. Although one piece of fruit with pesticides won’t kill you, if they build up in your body, they can be potentially detrimental to your health and should be avoided as much as possible.
Monsanto has been the target of many lawsuits lately, and was recently on trial for crimes against humanity and for contaminating a river in Seattle.
Let’s take at a list of food companies owned by Monsanto.
- Aunt Jemima
- Aurora Foods
- Banquet
- Best foods
- Betty Crocker
- Bisquick
- Cadbury
- Campbells
- Capri Sun
- Carnation
- Chef Boyardee
- Coca Cola
- ConAgra
- Delicious Brand Cookies
- Duncan Hines
- Famous Amos
- Frito Lay
- General Mills
- Green Giant
- Healthy Choice
- Heinz
- Hellmans
- Hershey’s Nestle
- Holsum
- Hormel
- Hungry Jack
- Hunts
- Interstate Bakeries
- Jiffy
- KC Masterpiece
- Keebler/Flowers Industries
- Kellogs
- Kid Cuisine
- Knorr
- Kool-Aid
- Kraft/Phillip Morris
- Lean Cuisine
- Lipton
- Loma Linda
- Marie Callenders
- Minute Made
- Morningstar
- MS. Butterworths
- Nabisco
- Nature Valley
- Ocean Spray
- Ore-Ida
- Orville Redenbacher
- Pasta-Roni
- Pepperidge Farms
- Pepsi
- Pillsbury
- Pop Secret
- Post Cereals
- Power Bar Brand
- Prego Pasta Sauce
- Pringles
- Procter and Gamble
- Quaker
- Ragu Sauce
- Rice A Roni
- Smart Ones
- Stouffers
- Sweppes
- Tombstone Pizza
- Totinos
- Uncle Ben’s
- Unilever
- V8
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REFERENCES:
1. “The Dangers of Pesticides.” Nature.com. Nature Publishing Group, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.
2. “Seattle Sues Monsanto over Chemical Contamination of River.” RT International. RT, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.
3. “List of Monsanto Owned.” Health Nut News. Health Nut News, 21 Feb. 2016. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.
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