Monsanto 'faked' data for approvals claims its ex-chief

[nikto]

(Quote)The debate on genetically modified (GM) brinjal variety continues to generate heat. Former managing director of Monsanto India, Tiruvadi Jagadisan, is the latest to join the critics of Bt brinjal, perhaps the first industry insider to do so.

Jagadisan, who worked with Monsanto for nearly two decades, including eight years as the managing director of India operations, spoke against the new variety during the public consultation held in Bangalore on Saturday.

On Monday, he elaborated by saying the company "used to fake scientific data" submitted to government regulatory agencies to get commercial approvals for its products in India.

The former Monsanto boss said government regulatory agencies with which the company used to deal with in the 1980s simply depended on data supplied by the company while giving approvals to herbicides.

"The Central Insecticide Board was supposed to give these approvals based on the location and crop-specific data from India. But it simply accepted foreign data supplied by Monsanto. They did not even have a test tube to validate the data and, at times, the data itself was faked," Jagadisan said.

"I retired from the company as I felt the management of Monsanto, USA, was exploiting our country," Jagadisan, 84, said from his home in Bangalore.
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Monsanto has developed an image to many informed observers as yet another "Corporation-gone-bad" in its
relentless pursuit of profits.

This isn't capitalism----This is just vile, Profit-Ruled Machiavellianism.

So what else is new?

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[upi402]

1. Is this person protected under a whistleblower

program? I hope at least that...

[HillbillyBob]

3. Which is not much protection legally..

and if they find out where he is hiding..the body will be like Hoffas..never found.

[DeSwiss]

2. Corporate fuckers....

K&R

[HillbillyBob]

4. To add, Genie(gene modified foods), PCBs

Agent Orange, interferance with organic farms, suing organic farmers becaue the pollen from bt corn/alfalfa/canola/ blew into farmers fields then Monsanto sued them out of business on genrational family farms. Anyone have anything else to add? I can't think of anything right now, but isn't this enough to put these fucking pirates out of business?

[sakabatou]

5. Suh-prize, suh-prize!

NOT!