USA: Occupy Monsanto’s annual shareholders meeting

The annual shareholders meeting of Monsanto will take place in St. Louis, Missouri, on 31 January 2013. Anti-GMO activists will descend on Monsanto’s global headquarters to protest the company’s ways. One of those activists, who is also a Monsanto shareholder, will go inside the meeting to present a shareholder resolution asking Monsanto to create a study of “material financial risks or operational impacts” associated with its chemical products and genetically modified organisms.

Monsanto’s fiscal 2013 first-quarter profit nearly tripled, according to the Wall Street Journal, prompting company officials to project gross profit in 2013 of US$7.65 billion (about 5.7 billion euros). Their recent success is due to sales of corn seed to South America, and climbing herbicide prices.

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