Monsanto Reports the Closing of 3 Research and Development Centers
Following news made just weeks ago about Monsanto slashing 2,600 jobs and ending $3 billion to buy back shares from investors, the biotech giant is now reporting that it will be closing 3 research and development centers in order to cut costs in the agricultural commodities market.
This is a relatively small loss of jobs, since only about 90 employees will become unemployed at the three R&D centers in Middleton, Wisconsin; Mystic, Connecticut, and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, which focuses on research on plant screening and phenotyping. Monsanto still has about 22,500 employees at over 400 worldwide facilities. It still represents, however, a notable loss in the US.
Monsanto will close the Middleton center in the first half of 2016, and the Mystic and Research Triangle Park locations in the second half of the year.
The three research centers currently employ 155 people. A Monsanto spokesman said the company plans to move about 65 of those jobs to its Chesterfield Research Village in the St. Louis, Missouri, area.
Monsanto employees were told of the job cuts this past week. Those who are offered jobs in St. Louis but refuse them will be offered a severance package.
Other workers affected by the closings will also be given a severance package, including pay, extended benefits, and educational assistance
Monsanto, which owns the facilities in Wisconsin and Connecticut, said it is looking for buyers for those properties and for a replacement tenant for its leased property in North Carolina.
With more and more consumers looking for non-GMO food, the heyday for biotech patented seed just might be coming to an end.
Even if this were the end of Monsanto’s GM research or even of Monsanto itself, this is most certainly not the end of genetic engineering. Such speculation is unfounded.
Chemtrails? Really?
Really.
Ok, where’s the evidence?
The fact is, you don’t want evidence. Your mind is already made up. Don’t bother researching geo-engineering, aerosol engineering, weather modification, etc. Just resort to the failed tactics of claiming it all to be cloud seeding. We understand you.
Do people who ask for evidence usually have their minds made up? Kinda seems like the opposite to me.
What is “all cloud seeding”? Do you mean contrails? Those are real.
The next couple years will be interesting. The farmers will come running back to non gm corn and soy in a couple years. When the collapse happens in the next week or so, and the major exports besides grain, being pig metal, plastic, and paper garbage, with all the gmo bans, they have to change! That is if they want to export anything other than garbage. There’s no more industry to export. The Bush’s, Clinton’s (2 for the price of 1) and Barry should be tried for treason! Organic seed should do good soon. Watch!!
Stock up my friend! Went to Target yesterday. I’ve been noticing shortages for months or more. 2 people got into a fight for the last Xmas decor and broke it. Start shopping for Xmas after New Years! Surplus is high, demand low, manufacturing dead world wide.
Great point. I knew garbage was the greatest export of Hawaii being sent mostly to China to be recycled into poisoned toys to chemical products not surprised it is similar to rest of the US. Switch has been on for a couple of years at least. I am very well stocked on organic seeds and important knowledge, good thing about farming is it keeps us healthy and wealthy in times of prosperity and alive in times of adversity. No one finds it odd that Barry, Clintons, Bush…every president is related by blood. Many people are descended from Charlemagne or King Henry; however, the chances are low that it is just a coincidence.
Sad but true I notice the difference in outward appearance in many who have consumed GMO, that is why Babes are against Biotech. My gut reaction is that this arson was committed by Monsanto as France is banning GMO cultivation and a French Monsanto scientist purposefully released jelly fish crossed lamb into the food supply.
I know GMO papaya farmers who destroyed their own fields to collect government subsidized insurance payouts rather than stick with unprofitable transgenics.
Most people have been domesticated and no longer have the ability to use force as a method of change; however, it could be real. MAFIA stands for Mazzini Autorizza Furti Incendi Avvelenamenti (Italian: Mazzini Authorizes Thefts, Fires and Poisonings)…Monsanto hired the security contractors formerly known as BlackWater reportedly to carry out these types of operations.
I can tell by looking at people if they’re eating GMO
HAHA! Yeah right….