The Monsanto Scandal, Our Shame
There is no uniformity in the laws governing transgenic plants. Officials involved must be investigated and foreign middlemen must be thrown out of the country if proven guilty.
Tempo
January 18, 2005
IF the amount of money involved is used as a benchmark, the Monsanto case is a small one. The American agrochemical and biotechnology giant has admitted to the facts unearthed by an investigation by the US Department of Justice and the Securities & Exchange Commission. It seems that in 2002 it paid a US$50,000 bribe to a senior official of the Indonesian Department of the Environment. The investigation found that from 1997 to 2002, Mons
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