Monsanto Bollgard and Bollgard II Cotton Seed Products Contain Genetically Engineered Pesticides

Mon­santo comes clean to the EPA. Between 2002 and 2007 Mon­santo dis­trib­uted or sold cot­ton seed prod­ucts more than 1,700 times nation­wide.
The effects of genet­i­cally engi­neered crops are unknown to insects, plants and the envi­ron­ment and we may never be able to link the dam­ages to those crops. In Sep­tem­ber 2008, EPA lifted the plant­ing restric­tion in the 10 Texas coun­ties for Boll­gard II, after Mon­santo applied for a change in the reg­is­tra­tion of that prod­uct.
After all shouldn’t Mon­santo be rewarded for dam­ag­ing the envi­ron­ment with contracts?

Mon­santo Com­pany Inc., of St. Louis, Mis­souri, has agreed to pay a $2.5 mil­lion penalty to resolve mis­brand­ing vio­la­tions related to the sale and dis­tri­b­u­tion of cot­ton seed prod­ucts. In con­sid­er­a­tion of the prof­its from the now in use cot­ton seed that gives the com­pany the right to sue nearby farm­ers for “seed copy­right infringe­ment” it is a pal­try amount. Arti­cle