Environmental

Center for Food Safety Condemns Monsanto’s Monarch Recovery Pledge as Greenwashing

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–April 6, 2015.  Center for Food Safety today sharply criticized Monsanto’s announcement that it is giving $4 million toward monarch population restoration. Two decades of the company’s top-selling crop system – Roundup Ready corn and soybeans – has nearly eradicated milkweed, the monarch caterpillar’s sole source of food, in cropland in the monarch’s vital Midwest breeding ground.

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“Monsanto brought in $15.85 billion in sales last year. This pledge for monarchs equates to only 2…

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