‘Buy it or else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s moves to force dicamba on farmers
Dicamba is a weedkiller that kills non-Monsanto engineered crops. (The Monsanto engineered seeds are resistant to dicamba.)
(From InvestigateMidwest.org)
Monsanto and BASF released their products knowing that dicamba would cause widespread damage to soybean and cotton crops that weren’t resistant to dicamba. They used “protection from your neighbors” as a way to sell more of their products. In doing so, the companies ignored years of warnings from independent academics, specialty crop growers and their own employees.
This article was originally posted here: https://www.ac2news.com/2020/12/buy-it-or-else-inside-monsanto-and-basfs-moves-to-force-dicamba-on-farmers/.
