Monsanto Reports the Closing of 3 Research and Development Centers
After announcing a 2,600 job cut
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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.
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
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. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7f62c6d9ac5d1bfe4476431bce87d322276e444c3ce6340002a20b3febb6017e.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9116f41f6768d1d4af6d2629fb7c3b61bb70e7492abfd3bfaefb706b0e360183.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d6a9673a458867dac33eba4884d914d8a59d2f966cefe933788dd9ae0716d482.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0fcec6cc5dd1bc5cdfa5ba1220127d922bf0ae11b63f0d6e28f9eff89b4c2ebd.jpg
I can tell by looking at people if they’re eating GMOs…the last picture with the man following the pig is what many of my neighbors look like..I call it the GMO belly.
Happy to see they’re LOSING money and investors..hahah..We need more arsonists to just burn ALL of them down and be done with it. Bury MonSatan for good.
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. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0df7d4177dbf8710522b594895019d7d57c38a3c4e686d61dbbeb39941c27905.jpg
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When China put their generic Round up on the market at a far less cost due to the wage and material cost differences, Monsanto lost over 400 million in sales.
As I understand China is preparing to market their own GMO products and manufacture the related products, this will have a devastating impact on the world wide market and US GMO product imports.. It has also been reported the big 6 GMO companies are trying to rapidly approve and market their newest innovative additions to their GMO products to counter China’s actions.
Hey Monsanto, aren’t you glad you shared all of that information with China to get your favorable research studies, lmao.
I can tell by looking at people if they’re eating GMO
HAHA! Yeah right….
Monsanto has closed down 3 facilities and fired 2600 people. During the propaganda they spent over $8 million (most in Hawaii’s history) in a failed effort to buy Maui’s vote demanding LongTerm Independent Impact studies here in GMO ground zero. Monsanto claimed they were all about jobs but that is another lie as they just fired them over stock price drops. They sue to avoid tests they can’t buy and are buying the DARK ACT to avoid state’s rights. The big six can’t hide in the DARK forever.
http://www.alternet.org/food/pesticides-paradise-hawaiis-spike-birth-defects-puts-focus-gm-crops
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.
monsatan doesn’t do research they get a free pass. Making poison is legal, besides gmo’s we also have aspartame, vaccines, chemtrails, fluoride etc etc
Chemtrails? Really?
Your an expert on DOD operations and the no name agencies also…
No, I just happen to be someone who is trained in critical thinking.
Do you believe this chemtrail conspiracy nonsense too? That would actually explain a lot.
Yeah, especially since the advanced countries have already admitted to doing it, Though they are not admitting it’s being done the scale some are claiming.
It’s called science.
LMAO
advanced countries have already admitted to doing it
Citation required. I don’t buy this for a second.
Yeah right, I have already used citations and quotes with the verifiable links. That didn’t work out too well for me, because you used everything as a point of attack.
Google it yourself.
Now your denying science?
LMAO
You haven’t presented a single citation relating to chemtrails.
How can I possible deny something that has not be presented?
Take a deep breath and try again.
sciencedaily dot com/releases/2010/11/101101125949.htm
termpaperwarehouse dot com/essay-on/Cloud-Seeding-Research/55212
Let it look up its own references. It supports Monsanto and is thus undeserving of any help whatsoever.
And your point is what exactly?
Yes, I’m familiar with cloud seeding. Is that what you’re referring to when with regards to “chemtrails”? I thought chemtrails usually referred to something else. Cloud seeding is not secretive.
Dictatorial, aren’t you.
Why do you say that? Because I demand evidence?
Then go look for one.
Why? I didn’t make the claim. Not my burden of proof.
you tube search wtc 7 demolition the vid is 47 or 48 seconds long. It is blatant obvious it was a demolition. Or would you rather I explain to you a 757 doesn’t go thru the pentagon in a 16 ft diameter hole wings and all. Wake the frick up.
Good grief. I’m awake. You’re the one dreaming.
en.wikipedia dot org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center#Collapse
That is all I am going to say on this subject. I will not entertain widely debunked conspiracy theories. Don’t want to accept the facts? Fine. That’s your choice. I won’t be party to this BS.
wtc 7 demolition is blatant obvious. If you can’t see that you have no business doing anything other than watching cartoons and coloring with crayons. fricken idiot wake the hell up. Let me guess you believe a passenger plane hit the pentagon and went into a hole 16 ft in diameter wings and all. LOL
Anger much? Calling me names isn’t going to improve my opinion of your critical thinking skills (which is already pretty low).
You should spend less time reading conspiracy theory blogs and a bit more time looking at more sober sources.
“When American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon’s exterior wall, Ring E, it created a hole approximately 75 ft. wide, according to the ASCE Pentagon Building Performance Report. The exterior facade collapsed about 20 minutes after impact, but ASCE based its measurements of the original hole on the number of first-floor support columns that were destroyed or damaged. Computer simulations confirmed the findings.
Why wasn’t the hole as wide as a 757’s 124-ft.-10-in. wingspan? A crashing jet doesn’t punch a cartoon-like outline of itself into a reinforced concrete building, says ASCE team member Mete Sozen, a professor of structural engineering at Purdue University. In this case, one wing hit the ground; the other was sheared off by the force of the impact with the Pentagon’s load-bearing columns, explains Sozen, who specializes in the behavior of concrete buildings. What was left of the plane flowed into the structure in a state closer to a liquid than a solid mass. “If you expected the entire wing to cut into the building,” Sozen tells PM, “it didn’t happen.”
The tidy hole in Ring C was 12 ft. wide—not 16 ft. ASCE concludes it was made by the jet’s landing gear, not by the fuselage.”
www dot popularmechanics dot com/military/a5659/debunking-911-myths-pentagon/
you are a clone of bobo aka gmo roberts aka shill. click on his name folks…………
I’m a clone? Would that make me the first gmo human? 🙂
just a different profile same moron
No sense of humor. How boring.
More bad investigation. Sounds like there are two of us to make you look stupid. Oh course it’s not hard so I bet there is a lot more.
Actually,
DrGreenThumb is far more intelligent than Gmo Roberts.
Look through the posts, Stinky can’t be on his own, he is intellectually and emotionally incapable.
DrGreenThumb is very capable of handling his own affairs.
They are 2 very different people, unless someone is doing the typing for Stinky.
Your probably right. They have the same agenda and work for the same evil company monSATAN.
I also find it funny that you have just made forceful assertions, yet haven’t presented anything to back up your claims beyond saying it’s “obvious”. Sure it is bub. Sure it is.
Obviously you didn’t yt search wtc 7 demolition. the vid is 48 seconds. the walls of the pentagon didn’t fall till quite a bit later. Pictures prove the hole only 16 ft diameter. It was the outer ring not the c ring. You have clue as to where I get my sources either.
I’m not going to entertain these delusional fantasies. You’ve obviously convinced yourself, we’ll good for you. Just remember, the easiest person to fool is yourself.
“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.”
If only you took the quote to heart and applied it to your own views. But that’s expecting far too much I think.
But your bad investigations are worse.
‘Conspiracy theory’ is what the govt or corporations say whenever people get too close to the truth. 9/11 for example.
Um, you’ve got sent aluminum foil sticking out from under your hat…
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 “most common chemicals” used for cloud seeding include, silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Liquid propane, which expands into a gas, has also been used. ie chemtrail
These are just stated as the most common, which implies there are other unspecified chemicals being used.
The usage of cloud seeding as an example, was merely to provide undisputed proof that it is actually being done on a daily basis.
Cloud seeding conspiracy theory’s,
Cloud seeding has been the focus of many theories based on the belief
that governments manipulate the weather in order to control anything
from global warming, populations, and military weapons testing, to
public health.
The terminology, chemtrails, is merely a distraction from the true cause cloud seeding and atmospheric scientific experimentation.
The general public sees the computer modeling studies, but here as you can see, it’s actually being done.
Is there something hidden, would anyone lie to the general public about it? Historically everybody tells the truth, right?
There are no hidden agencies or programs, because that wouldn’t be honest.
Seek professional help. The government is not spraying mysterious chemicals into the air behind jet planes to manipulate public health (I assume you probably think they do this to keep us ‘sick’ so that Big Pharma makes more money, right?). No wonder you are so anti-GMO. You don’t seem very good at evaluating and weighing evidence.
So because I prove an actual active cloud seeding agency, Desert Research Institute, your going to call me sick and twisted?
All I did was post some information I had found, without offering any opinions on my part.
Why would you twist my comment and call me a mental patient?
I never said you were sick and twisted. I think you may be a bit paranoid.
Or maybe I have worked for no name agencies before? Maybe I’ve been to restricted areas before? Or maybe it’s true, you know everything?
Your just denying that anything would be hidden, which anyone knows is total BS.
There’s a sick truth about people that are so often referred
to as “Conspiracy Theorists,” but conveniently it is never talked about.
In the heat of a debate, accusing someone of being a “Conspiracy
Theorist” or a “Science Denier” in public is the intellectual equivalent
of one opponent saying to the other, “Nah nah nah nah nah!” The reason
being, is the media has people programmed to assign a negative
connotation to those words, and once those words are used, the general
public is more or less encouraged to ridicule the “Conspiracy Theorist”
or “Science Denier” until they are silenced. .
The secret that most people don’t know, is that in an
overwhelming number of instances, the person being called the names is
later proven to have been right the whole time, and the other party was
lying through their teeth.
When it comes to issues like these, talk is cheap. Evidence is all that matters. Just because cloud seeding is performed/attempted/whatever, that does not serve as evidence that there is some sort of huge global plot going on and that every white trail behind a high altitude jet is some sort of “chemical” being used to dose the population. That is a ridiculously huge leap. That’s like saying, well, I’ve seen horses and I’ve seen rinos, so unicorns probably exist.
But it does serve as evidence that something is being done and there is much we, in reality, don’t know about what is being done. I didn’t say huge global conspiracy, you added those words to my posts. All I did was prove the existence of chemtrails. And yes there is also contrails, which I never denied either.
Cloud seeding is being done currently in over 80 countries, but is has also been reported that it just doesn’t work. So maybe they are continuing their scientific research with a different focus?
I’ve seen elephants dead missing their ivory, but that doesn’t prove that a poacher did it either.
Back to unicorns…
I won’t discussing this non-issue any further. It’s an utter waste of time. We might as well be talking about where the US government has hidden all the alien space craft.
Your the one who demanded proof, then twisted it into a conspiracy theory when proof was provided.
I’m sorry that when they spray those chemicals they leave trails, not my fault, that is just how it works. 80 countries are being actively sprayed, in “cloud seeding” projects.
Yes talk is cheap, but you have placed all evidence in the same category?
And what does alien space craft have to do with atmospheric science, research and studies?
Let’s bream this down.
It’s your belief that there is a secret and ongoing program that involves spraying chemicals from commercial airliners. Is that a correct interpretation of your view?
That remark about aliens was a joke.
No.
It is my belief that there are many things going on that we are unaware of.
There are many secret programs currently active and ongoing. There are lots of programs and agencies we don’t know about.
Why don’t you provide us with a list of the no name agencies and their civilian counter parts and their purpose.
I just provided proof of an ongoing atmospheric program, your the one saying they aren’t spraying, and I didn’t say anything about commercial airliners. Who would use passenger transport for research?
I accept that in some places cloud seeding is conducted. I am not sure of the effectiveness of this technology. As I understand it, “chemtrails” typically refers to the belief that the contrails left behind high altitude jets is more nefarious. That is what I thought you meant. But if you’re claiming that cloud seeding is more than just an attempt to trigger precipitation in a given region, then you should have some direct evidence to support that claim. If that’s not what you’re saying, then this has just been a misunderstanding.
The terminology Chemtrails has been psychologically used to bring fear and images of subversion directed against the people.
Whether it’s true or not remains to be seen, but it is obvious the pieces are in place to make it a possibility.
Science does extend to the study of atmospheric research.
It is good people question and demand transparency to privatized agencies actions. FOIA request is easy for Govt agencies, but it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars and years in court to get information from private corps.
I researched the chemtrail issue for over 6 hours yesterday.
Did you know it is rumored that Monsanto has geo-engineering patents and aluminum resistant GM trait crops already to field.
And you’re point is….?
GE of plants to increase resistance to heavy metals has the potential to use plants for bioremediation. Alternatively, it may allow the growth of plants on marginal lands, but this is probably not feasible for food crops if contamination of the food is a risk.
I don’t see anything inherently problematic about the existence of these patents. You seem to be looking for excuses to demonize this technology and any company associated with it.
Just making a statement as to some of the information that I had found.
There was also research making claim as the the Jet exhaust damage at the higher levels. They mentioned the difference between civilian grade and Military grade fuels and additives and experimentation with additives. The different grades of fuel being the reason for the length of the contrails. Military fuel is nasty stuff.
Again another likely scenario.
Prove it to us now then. Oh wait why should you start now?
Prove it?
What is this “it” your referring to?
That everything you have stated on this site is true. You have failed miserably in backing anything up so far.
It’s true, I know because I was there.
Your word is not proof you have already showed that time and again.
And your word is proof?
Who died and left you in charge?
No one, but unlike you everything I have said can be verified. While everything you have said we have proven is a lie (or the ramblings of a pathetic moron take your pick).
Yes, education level and ability to understand can be verified through your posts, as can your mental state. I’m amazed you haven’t wandered off, but you probably have your phone number and address pinned to your shirt. You also claim to have been in the same location all or your life, so I’m sure they already know where to return you to.
We cannot help you, that is up to you.
lived here? yes, but I have been lucky enough to travel, see, and learn. Something that has escaped you. Everything else you have said is just useless babbles of a moron.
Disneyland doesn’t make you a world traveler.
Your attempt at humor is as bad as your facts now isn’t it.
Based on your experience, some 21 year old sitting at some institute of higher learning, eating, GMO crap in the cafeteria, being brainwashed by a bunch of pathetic loser activist friends.
Lmao, what?
Not surprising most college kids today understand the science and do eat gmos. Something you as a moron can’t comprehend.
It’s easy to claim to understand things pumped in your general direction, when that’s all you hear and everybody around agrees with the bs. Whats hard is having the ability to think on your own and see your eating and shoveling utter BS out of your pie hole.
I have over 40 years experience, you have your 21 years of disillusioned feelings of higher authority to guide you.
You have over 40 years of living with mommy in her basement? Arent you just such a good little boy!!! LOL maybe someday you can actually get out and see the real world, of course it will destroy all of your fantasies.
Unfortunately, the world I have seen is real.
National Geographic channel in mommies basement doesn’t count.
Ok he didn’t, but I will. You sick and twisted freak!!
Cool, but I didn’t stay in my hometown all of my life, so your opinions are based on the mainstream media and supplied information from the real world.
So even your hometown didn’t want you? LOL, that’s understandable.
this should help you with your research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijOEmtZyWTg
“With more and more consumers looking for non-GMO food, the heyday for biotech patented seed just might be coming to an end”
Poor little chrissy just doesn’t get it does she? 2 things are happening. First with the down turn in farm income thanks to the current gmos massive ability to overproduce, it only makes since to have a leaner company that can still be profitable. Secondly, Monsanto is having more competition in the biotech field with companies like Dow actually taking the lead.
Lol!! Are you for real??
Chuckle. No. It’s a Monsanto maggot, a paid shill. GMO Roberts has no existence as a normal human being.
If a freak like you is normal then I’m glad I’m not.
I.e., more poisoners.
If they were foreign countries, the US would bomb them for poisoning our food supply.
LOL, the other countries are readily buying up the gmos.
On that note, I’d suggest people take a second look at the news about Russia and GMOs. No, they aren’t “banning” GMOs. They are likely just blocking outside corporations. There’s plenty of their own GMO nonsense going on within their borders.
LOL. More and more countries are refusing the GMO filth.
Simple name them then.
Every Country that has labeling laws for one.
That is yet another of your lies. Europe is a perfect example where they are more than happy to import gmos, use them and then not even label the products. Don’t you ever tire of lying to people here? And you claim to be a vet, LOL, a vet would have more honor than to lie.
theorganicauthority dot com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Infographic-GMO-Labeling-Around-the-World.jpg
You seriously can’t keep up with the conversation can you? Lets review for you here moron.
tsyganka: LOL. More and more countries are refusing the GMO filth.
Notice!!!! they do not mention labeling they say REFUSING.
Gmo Roberts:Simple name them then.
And you reply with labeling not countries that are refusing them. Do everyone a favor and keep your terroristic pie hole of a mouth closed until you can at least figure out what people are talking about there moron.
I know you are unable to follow simple logic, take your meds and your afternoon nap. Then you can go hang out with your activist friends and laugh at all of the people who you and your egotistical friends deem unworthy to walk the earth.
Maybe you can spit on some homeless Vets, that will make you feel better.
Lol, you are the only person to make fun of our vets on here and threaten to overthrow our government.
Totally delusional.
Idiot, no single person could overthrow the world govt, get a grip.
Your continued insistence of sheer stupidity is hilarious.
Pinky and the Brain cartoons really screwed you up!!
Oh I’m sure you are hoping your mommy can call some of your playmates over to help you.
Actually, I’m amazed they haven’t just taken it upon themselves and visited you yet.
Stinky says,
Europe is a perfect example where they are more than happy to import gmos, use them and then not even label the products.
I just responded with a world map of countries that label in response. Funny you wrote it but don’t bother to reference what you said.
Bobo,
You need to start listening to Dr. Jim Willie.The petro dollar is dead! Kissinger will be a big reason for the collapse, and a brainless congress that kept raising the debt!. Oil will be sold in gold or the Yuan.
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.
There are very few countries that actual that ban gmo imports. Most such as many in Europe ban only the production, which is almost laughable as they didn’t raise them to begin with.