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1901: Monsanto is founded in St. Louis, Missouri by John Francis Queeny as a chemical company.

1935: Acquires Swann Chemical Company, entering the business of producing PCBs.

1936: Acquires Thomas & Hochwalt Laboratories to enhance research capabilities.

1940s: Becomes a leading manufacturer in rubber and plastics.

1960s: Produces Agent Orange and other herbicides used in the Vietnam War.

1982: Begins pivoting into biotechnology, genetically engineering a plant cell.

1996: Introduces Roundup Ready soybeans, the first genetically engineered seeds.

2000: Merges with Pharmacia & Upjohn, forming Pharmacia.

2002: Pharmacia spins off its agricultural division as an independent company named Monsanto Company.

2007: Acquires Delta & Pine Land Company, a major cotton seed breeder, for $1.5 billion.

2018: Bayer completes the acquisition of Monsanto, integrating it into Bayer’s Crop Science Division.

This timeline highlights Monsanto’s transformation from a chemical company to a biotechnology giant, and eventually becoming part of Bayer.

2000: Syngenta is formed by the merger of the agrichemical businesses of Novartis (Geigy) and AstraZeneca.

2004: Acquires Garst Seed Company and Golden Harvest Seeds, expanding its seed business.

2006: Acquires Conrad Fafard, a horticultural company, for $134 million.

2013: Acquires Devgen, a Belgian biotechnology company.

2015: Acquires Ag Connections, a software company specializing in agricultural data management.

2017: Acquired by China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina).

2020: Formation of the Syngenta Group, bringing together Syngenta Crop Protection, Syngenta Seeds, Adama, and the agricultural business of Sinochem.

2020: Acquires Valagro, an Italian biologicals company.

2021: Acquires Verisem, a global vegetable seed company.

This timeline highlights Syngenta’s growth through strategic acquisitions and its integration into the Syngenta Group under ChemChina.

2015: Dow and DuPont announce a definitive agreement to merge and subsequently spin off into three independent companies.

2017: The merger of Dow and DuPont is completed, forming DowDuPont.

2019: Corteva Agriscience is spun off from DowDuPont, becoming a standalone company on June 1, 2019.

2020: Acquires full ownership of PhytoGen Seed Company, LLC, a joint venture.

2022: Acquires Symborg, an expert in microbiological technologies based in Spain, and Stoller, a leading biologicals company based in the U.S.

This timeline highlights Corteva Agriscience’s journey from its roots in Dow and DuPont to becoming a standalone leader in the agricultural industry.

1929: J.R. Simplot begins his potato farming business in Idaho.

1956: The J.R. Simplot Company is incorporated.

1997: Merges with Irvin & Johnson Australia Ltd, creating the second-largest retail seafood brand in Australia.

1999: Forms the Simplot-Farm Frites Global Potato Alliance with Netherlands-based Farm Frites Beheer BV.

2003: Opens a french fry plant in Manitoba, Canada.

2022: Merges Simplot Australia with the Simplot Food Group to form Simplot Global Foods.

This timeline highlights J.R. Simplot Co.'s growth from a small potato farming business to a global agribusiness leader.

These are just the major companies working on GMO seeds. There are many more.

Upside Foods (formerly known as Memphis Meats) is a food technology company headquartered in Berkeley, California, aiming to grow sustainable cultured meat.

The company was founded in 2015 by Uma Valeti (CEO), Nicholas Genovese (CSO), and Will Clem.

Valeti was a cardiologist and a professor at the University of Minnesota.

The company plans to produce various meat products using biotechnology to induce stem cells to differentiate into muscle tissue, and to manufacture the meat products in bioreactors

This is a new startup. Using CRISPRE tech and research from Ohio State University to create lab-grown beef.

AquaBounty Technologies is a biotechnology and aquaculture company based in Maynard, Massachusetts, United States.

The company is notable for its research and development of genetically modified fish. 

It aims to create products that aim to increase the productivity of aquaculture.

As of 2020, sale of salmon has been approved in Canada and the United States.

Only time will tell.

Look at the past records of the companies involved.

Millions and millions paid out in damages from toxic waste to making children sick.

Thousands of people have been hurt.

Lawsuits filed by regular people and not by our government, why?

Lobbyist donating tons of money to suggest policies and gain influence.

Government inside trading. If you know if a bill will help or hurt a company, you have an inside track to wealth.

Not saying Nancy Pelosi does this but let's take a look

Went to the Congress 1987 still there today.  According to Finbold, as of 2023, Nancy Pelosi’s net worth is approximately $189,840,000.

It is hard to trust the agencies that are looking out for us when the test is funded by the companies whose product they are testing.

Would our government let these companies test their product on the public without telling us? yes, yes they would, and they have.

 The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932 and only ended when the information was leaked in 1972.

Yet to be determined.

If you want to eat meat that is spliced with the immortal sell or seed spliced with virous and bacteria cells, you go right ahead.

We'll be keeping an eye out for you.

we are the worriers of the info war,

what kind of evil is behind the lab door,

man into woman science does it for fun,

in a test tube mixed a baby called him Cecille his son.

Aids maybe the afterbirth of the test tube baby,

so, if I have a heart attack don't try and save me,

my mind will be on, but I can't get out

don't need a blood transfusion if I can't move my mouth

I don't want to be an experiment

I can't afford the high teck rent

Don't hook me up to your godless life machines

let my friends throw a party and mercy kill me....