1. Low calorie sweeteners (Nutrasweet) including both Aspartame and Saccharin

In 1985, Monsanto bought Searle Company that was the main producer of artificial sweetener called aspartame used in carbonated beverages. Nutrasweet products are low calorie sweeteners that have been linked to cancer, craving for sugar, obesity, diabetes and chronic neurological disorders. This is when Monsanto among many other powerful corporations in America donates millions of dollars to research centers and facilities including the American Diabetes Association.

2. PCBs

In the late 1920s, Monsanto become the largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) used as hydraulic fluid, cutting oil and lubricant for electric motors, capacitates and transformers. PCBs were banned in 1970s but the remaining of it still exists along Dead Creek in Sauget where Monsanto had its first PCBs plant. Monsanto’s first PCBs plant was in the state of Illinois that has one of the highest rates of immature death…