#197 - Bartow J. Elmore on SEED MONEY

Award-winning professor and writer Bart Elmore chats with Trey Elling about SEED MONEY: MONSANTO'S PAST AND OUR FOOD FUTURE. Questions include:

• What does Coca Cola have to do with Monsanto's earliest days?
• When did Monsanto get into agricultural chemicals and pesticides?
• Was Monsanto actively covering up the potential harms of the chemicals the produced 50+ years ago?
• What is the Technology Use Agreement (TUA) Monsanto requires farmers to sign who use their genetically engineered seeds?
• How big a problem was the radioactive phosphate slag that the EPA discovered at Monsanto's Soda Springs, ID facility in the 1970s?
• How did Monsanto react to farmers reporting of Roundup-resistant weeds in the early 2000s?
• How influential is Monsanto within local, state, and federal governments?
• Why did Bayer buy Monsanto in 2018, considering all of the legal problems piling up for the latter?
• Have GE crops improved food production, like MOnsanto has promised since the 1990s?