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Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. It is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and of the herbicide glyphosate, which it markets under the Roundup brand. Founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, by the 1940s it was a major producer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibers. Notable achievements by Monsanto and its scientists as a chemical company included breakthrough research on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation and being the first company to mass-produce light emitting diodes (LEDs). The company also formerly manufactured controversial products such as the insecticide DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, and recombinant bovine somatotropin.
Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell, along with three academic teams, which was announced in 1983, and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops, which it did in 1987. It remained one of the top 10 U.S. chemical companies until it divested most of its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a process of mergers and spin-offs that focused the company on biotechnology.
Monsanto was a pioneer in applying the biotechnology industry business model to agriculture, using techniques developed by Genentech and other biotech drug companies in the late 1970s in California. In this business model, companies invest heavily in research and development, and recoup the expenses through the use and enforcement of biological patents. Monsanto's application of this model to agriculture, along with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system of plant breeders' rights in the 1980s, came into direct conflict with customary practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop plant varieties. Its seed patenting model has also been criticized as biopiracy and a threat to biodiversity. Monsanto's role in these changes in agriculture (which include its litigation and its seed commercialization practices, its current and former agbiotech products, its lobbying of government agencies, and its history as a chemical company, have made Monsanto controversial.
False Shiva (aka “Monsanto Man” ) appears benevolent, hiding behind a beloved Shiva mask, his stance and multiple arms a poor imitation of the real Shiva. He is surrounded by dead and dying leaves, and a gold lasso to “Round Up” his victims, which include GM Corn, Soy, Rice and Beets. He holds in his hands a poison apple, a leafy noose with the bodies of hanging Indian suicide farmers, and a Wall Street Journal, which is also his dhoti. He stands victorious in his “merciless” Nike golf shoes, on the body of Mother Earth, whose basket of fresh fruit is scattered.
Yeah yeah, I know it’s bleak, but a lot of religious kitsch is pretty bleak too!
This is the second in a series of “Corporate Icons” I am working on – icons for a new and dismal age of rule by Corporate Demons. So far I have used Byzantine and Hindu religious kitsch as inspiration – look for Western medieval and Persian illuminated manuscripts for the next ones.
Mixed media - acrylic on wood panel, leaves are made out of shrinky dinks. Large - 24" x 30"
English after Thai.
ราชบุรี, 7 มีนาคม 2552 -- สมาชิกและอาสาสมัครกรีนพีซ และเกษตรกรราชบุรี ร่วมปลูกข้าวอินทรีย์ในแปลงนาขนาด 10 ไร่ เพื่อสร้างสรรค์ศิลปะบนนาข้าวผืนแรกในประเทศไทย ในจังหวัดราชบุรี ซึ่งภายในอีก 4 เดือนข้างหน้า นาข้าวผืนนี้จะงอกงามกลายเป็นศิลปะอันสวยงามสะท้อนวิถีชีวิตของชาวนาไทย ด้วยภาพชาวนาใส่หมวกฟาง และถือเคียวร่วมกันเกี่ยวข้าว | ลิขสิทธิ์ภาพ: กรีนพีซ/วินัย ดิษฐจร
Ratchaburi, Thailand, 7 March 2009 –Greenpeace supporters, volunteers and farmers planted organic rice today in a bid to create the first ever art on a rice field in Thailand. The 10-rai rice field in Ratchaburi province will grow into a beautiful art in the next 4 months to show an image of farmers wearing straw hats and suing sickle to harvest rice. | Photo COPYRIGHT by Greenpeace / Vinai Dithajohn
On a family farm tucked between rolling hills of Masopane, 40 km outside of South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, 35-year-old Sophie Mabhena is dreaming big about her crop of genetically modified (GM) maize.
An agricultural research technician performs a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) procedure to determine the presence of alleles or genes with known function or importance.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
Adam had the whole audience laughing (albeit nervously) with his rapid-fire enumeration of buzzwords like "novelty eugenics."
Greenpeace set up a stand right beside the FDP, protesting the latter's advocacy of atomic energy and genetic engineering. (I have no idea whether they actually do or not, but that's what Greenpeace says.)
Dwarkabai Mohud is yet to come out of the shock of her husband Sarangdar Tulshiram Mohud's death a few months earlier. Saragdar, a cotton farmer of Maharashtra's Ramapur Dharod village, committed suicide beacuse he was unable to repay back an agricultural loan of a mere Rs.8000 (200USD) taken from Indian Bank's Akot branch in 2007.
Dwarkabai has inherited the unpaid loan along with the two acres of land her husband owned. "We manage to grow five quintals of cotton a year, bringing home Rs 10,000 (250USD)," she says. Her son has taken over the responsitbiity of looking after her and clearing the debt. "He tills our land and then works on other's land as labourer," says a tearful Dwarkabai. She and her son will remain debt ridden for sometime, as they are not eligible for Government's farm-loan waiver. Moreover the unpaid loan makes them ineligible for a fresh loan. With Dwarkabai's son earning a meagre Rs 40 (One USD) a day, after a hard days labour, the future of the family doesn't look bright.
Over hundreds of farmers in the Vidharbaha region of Maharashtra, in Central India has committed suicide in the last few years over to loan dafault, due to bad crop and untimely rainfall.
An agricultural research technician performs a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) procedure to determine the presence of alleles or genes with known function or importance.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
An associate scientist performs a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) procedure to determine the presence of alleles or genes with known function or importance.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
No GMO rally and march in Hilo, Hawaii to demonstrate local objection to growing and testing GMO products on the islands of Hawaii.
Ringiers farbige Kinderbücher / Kinderbuchserie
> Ringgi + Zofi / Spannende Abenteuer in Genikon
von Robi Reinfrank und Röbu Schnieper
Ringier & Co AG / Zürich 1988
ex libris MTP
I'm very pleased to announce my book is finally available as a paperback! Just look at my happy little face! To anyone who ever said they'd buy one when it was available in print or anyone who was wondering whether I can string a sentence together, well now's your chance! Go on, buy one. You know you want to...
Here's the Amazon link for Skin & Bones...
Skin and Bones is the story of a horrifying virus outbreak from two vastly different viewpoints. One is the person responsible for the horrifying global pandemic and one is an unnamed source who can do little more than respond to the primitive instinct for survival. There's also a cat named Mog and some zombie pigs...
This morning you woke up feeling a little unwell. You have no appetite, your head is aching, your throat is sore and you think you might have a slight fever. You don’t know it yet, but the virus has already been working away inside you for a week or so and has been busy attacking your immune system. It’s reached the stage where it’s really about to make its presence known.
The virus will wreak permanent changes. From the second you were infected the grave is your only and eventual way out. At least by that point you’ll have no knowledge of what you’re doing. Just following some of the baser human instincts that have been modified and enhanced. Your end is nigh. Along with just about everybody else’s...
A preliminary cover design for my next novel, Incubus Sky, which will be a scifi exploration of the alien-abduction phenomenon. (Update 8/29/14: The title is now Ulterior Sky. Update 3/28/17: The title is now Ontogenesis (Libri Mysterii Book 5.) From my research into the surprisingly widespread phenomenon, I've learned that a lot of people are experiencing *something* that can leave them with post traumatic stress disorder but no one knows conclusively what it is. I'm not writing about the phenomenon because I think I know what it is or isn't all about; I simply find it a compelling scenario that affects people of all social classes all around the world. The implications are profound, and the experiences deeply affect those involved. It's an interesting subject that seems to expand the more I research it. So, just how deep *does* this rabbit hole go?
Bean breeding at CIAT in Kawanda, Uganda.
Credit: ©2009CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Rice seedlings in test tubes generated from protoplast culture. Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute.
Nisbet, Alistair, 1958-.”So how do you know that it’s GM fed chicken?” 21 November 2009. Cartoon Archive (Drawings, Paintings & Prints Collection), Alexander Turnbull Library (Ref: DCDL-0012901)
During the early 21st century many people were concerned with the prospect of genetic modification of food. This cartoon depicts this general fear and concern amongst New Zealanders.
Here he is, human body with a dog's head, a genuine freak. No, he doesn't lift his leg to pee, but don't ask him over for a drink.
(OK, felt a little weird to add this photo to both my self-portrait set, and to my toby set.)
Research Technicians at IRRI performs the measurement of BB lesion length in the pilot plot of the transgenic and non transgenic entries.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
Groovy woman with "99% say No GMO & No Monsanto" sign at World Pillow Fight Day at Trafalgar Square, London England. Copyright (C) 2013 by Scott A. McNealy Photographer. See more of my work at www.noboundaryphotography.co.uk or www.flickr.com/photos/scottamcnealy/
False Shiva (aka “Monsanto Man” ) appears benevolent, hiding behind a beloved Shiva mask, his stance and multiple arms a poor imitation of the real Shiva. He is surrounded by dead and dying leaves, and a gold lasso to “Round Up” his victims, which include GM Corn, Soy, Rice and Beets. He holds in his hands a poison apple, a leafy noose with the bodies of hanging Indian suicide farmers, and a Wall Street Journal, which is also his dhoti. He stands victorious in his “merciless” Nike golf shoes, on the body of Mother Earth, whose basket of fresh fruit is scattered.
Yeah yeah, I know it’s bleak, but a lot of religious kitsch is pretty bleak too!
This is the second in a series of “Corporate Icons” I am working on – icons for a new and dismal age of rule by Corporate Demons. So far I have used Byzantine and Hindu religious kitsch as inspiration – look for Western medieval and Persian illuminated manuscripts for the next ones.
Mixed media - acrylic on wood panel, leaves are made out of shrinky dinks. Large - 24" x 30"
Research Technicians at IRRI performs the measurement of BB lesion length in the pilot plot of the transgenic and non transgenic entries.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
Research technicians at IRRI perform the measurement of BB lesion length in the pilot plot of the transgenic and nontransgenic entries.
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
I'm very pleased to announce my book is finally available as a paperback! Just look at my happy little face! To anyone who ever said they'd buy one when it was available in print or anyone who was wondering whether I can string a sentence together, well now's your chance! Go on, buy one. You know you want to...
Here's the Amazon link for Skin & Bones...
Skin and Bones is the story of a horrifying virus outbreak from two vastly different viewpoints. One is the person responsible for the horrifying global pandemic and one is an unnamed source who can do little more than respond to the primitive instinct for survival. There's also a cat named Mog and some zombie pigs...
This morning you woke up feeling a little unwell. You have no appetite, your head is aching, your throat is sore and you think you might have a slight fever. You don’t know it yet, but the virus has already been working away inside you for a week or so and has been busy attacking your immune system. It’s reached the stage where it’s really about to make its presence known.
The virus will wreak permanent changes. From the second you were infected the grave is your only and eventual way out. At least by that point you’ll have no knowledge of what you’re doing. Just following some of the baser human instincts that have been modified and enhanced. Your end is nigh. Along with just about everybody else’s...