Event Host: College of Arts and Sciences
Short Description: Join us as Bart Elmore takes us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.
Join us as Bart Elmore takes us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.
Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018―but its Roundup Ready seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. Elmore will examine Monsanto’s astounding evolution from a scrappy chemical startup to a global agribusiness powerhouse. Monsanto used seed money derived from toxic products―including PCBs and Agent Orange―to build an agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its genetically engineered technology.
Panelists:
- Bart Elmore, Associate Professor of Environmental History and Core Faculty, Sustainability Institute
- Nicholas Breyfogle (Moderator), Associate Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching
This event will be presented with automated closed captions. If you wish to request traditional CART services or other accommodations, please contact Jade Lac at lac.1@@osu.edu. Requests made by 3/28/22 will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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