Monsanto Cash Incentives Under Federal Investigation

readersupportednews.org, Pesticide Action Network by Kathryn Gilje, | Jul. 16, 2011 (News Report)

n some circles, it would be called a bribe, at best. Evidence revealed last week shows that Monsanto's former Chief Financial Officer admitted that the agrichemical corporation planned to spend $150 million in cash and trade incentives in Latin America, North America and Europe to spur the uptake of the pesticide glyphosate, better known as RoundUp. $150 million is no small change - and surely that's not all that's been spent.

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 18, 2011

Other than calling the herbicide a pesticide, the story reports what may be bribes to enter Latin American agricultural markets.

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