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'''Monsanto''' is one of the [["Big 6" Biotech Corporations]], along with [[BASF]], [[Bayer]], [[Dow Chemical Company]], [[Dupont]], and [[Syngenta]] (so called because they dominate the agricultural input market -- that is, they own the world’s seed, pesticide and [[biotechnology]] industries).<ref name="PANNAcartel">Pesticide Action Network of North America, [http://www.panna.org/issues/pesticides-profit/chemical-cartel Chemical Cartel], organizational website, accessed July 2012</ref><ref>ETC Group, [http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/etc_WhoOwnsNature.pdf Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life], international civil society organizational report, November 2008, accessed July 2012</ref>
'''SAFETY:''' Monsanto's Roundup herbiside is the most used in the United States. The key chemical in Roundup is glyphosate. '''Glyphosate was labelled a probable human carcinogen''', hazardous to works and consumers, by the World Health Organization in 2015. "The new classification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, is based on research on human exposure in the U.S., Canada and Sweden and on animal studies that found what the agency called “convincing evidence” that the chemical caused cancer in laboratory animals."<ref>Environmental Working Group, Press Release, [World Health Organization Labels Glyphosate Probable Carcinogen http://www.ewg.org/release/world-health-organization-labels-glyphosate-probable-carcinogen], March 20, 2015.</ref>
In the fiscal year ending in August of 2010, the company reported sales of approximately 10.5 billion dollars and had 27,600 employees. <ref>[http://www.hoovers.com/company/Monsanto_Company/rffsyti-1-1njea5.html Key Monsanto Company Financials], Hoovers, January 2011</ref>
