Monsatan (Monsanto + satan)

Monsanto is an American multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation. Many people have criticized the company for its genetically engineered foods, giving the company the nickname “Monsatan” or “MonSatan” (Monsanto + satan). “MonSatan” was posted in the newsgroup sci.environment on October 1, 1998.
   
       
Wikipedia: Monsanto
Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Greater St. Louis, Missouri. Monsanto is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide.
       
Google Groups: sci.environment
BOYCOTT THESE COMPANIES re: Starr Report
Paul Whitehead
10/1/98
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Now if Monsanto (read MonSatan) could GM some of that dopey stuff I used to feed Colin on, and sell it cheap in the supermarkets, they could get popular.
 
Google Groups: alt.paranormal.crop-circles
Freddy Silva    
Paul Vigay
11/2/98
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> But, there again, being an alternative can mean different things to
> different people.  MonSatan, McCrap burgie, road and animal welfare
> protesters; ‘green’s’ and ‘red greens’; some of these people view some
> of the New Age movement (itself split down the middle) with suspicion,
> and vice versa.
 
I’m still pretty right-wing in a lot of views, but I regard myself independent enough to warrant each event/point etc on it’s own merits rather than to just adopt the ‘standard party line’. For instance, I feel passionately about ‘MonSatan’ as you call them, because I am anti genetic modification of the food chain. Some people call me an anarchist, yet my
 
Google Groups: alt.comedy.bill-hicks
MonSatan (Was: I need some dirt on Monsanto and G.M.O.)
Rob
12/14/98
I would have thought it nigh on impossible to find any ‘dirt’ on such an altruistic corporation as Monsanto.
 
21 February 1999, Sunday Times (London, UK), “What’s eating us?” by Margarette Driscoll and Jonathon Carr-Brown, pg. 6:
A former managing director of one of Sainsbury’s companies has spoken of a culture of bullying and autocracy in the biotech industry. No wonder one scientist revealed that his company was fondly known by its employees as “Monsatan”.
   
23 February 1999, The Mirror (London, UK), “Gene Giant Feeds Lust for Profit” by Roseanna Cunningham, pg. 15:
Labour were elected to represent the people - not to be mouthpieces for unsavoury firms like Monsanto, nicknamed ‘Monsatan’, in a telling bit of black comedy.
 
11 May 1999, Wall Street Journal (New York, NY), “Crop Blight: Monsanto Falls Flat Trying to Sell Europe On Bioengineered Food—- Its Soybeans Are Safe, Say Trade Officials, but Public Doesn’t Want to Hear It—- Mad-Cow and Englishmen” by Scott Kilman and Helene Cooper. pg. A1:
Activists have torn up Monsanto test plots in the United Kingdom. British newspapers call Monsanto the “Frankenstein food giant” and the “biotech bully boy” so routinely that some Monsanto employees jokingly refer to their employer as “MonSatan.”
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Frankenfish, Monsatan, and Killer Canola Making Good Decisions in the Midst of Environmental Controversy
Author: H A Longstaff
Edition/Format: Article Article
Publication: Journal of Environmental Informatics, v6 n1 (200509): 33-45
Database: CrossRef
 
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Wayneco‏
@wayneco
Replying to @rscottjones
@rscottjones I found a Monsatan song/video… in French http://tinyurl.com/cq6f3k
11:50 PM - 11 Mar 2009
   
Urban Dictionary
Monsatan
refers to the evil empire constructed by the Monsanto Corporation. Farmers started using this term around 2000 when the company began charging tech fees for genetically modified soybeans with resistance to Roundup herbicide and raised the price of their Roundup chemicals at the same time. In recent years the term has enjoyed expanded usage when describing Monsanto’s efforts to impact the entire food chain with their genetically modified products.
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#monsanto#satan#genetics#farm#seed
by BinswOH March 15, 2012
 
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Monsanto Documentary MONSATAN
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Published on Jan 8, 2016
THE GREATEST DOCUMENTARY ON THE MOST EVIL COMPANY IN THE WORLD,MONSANTO AKA MONSATAN!
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