Monsanto is one of the largest companies behind food genetic engineering and has been able to sell its crops to farmers of all kinds around the world for years. Today they have over twenty products, which can be purchased from their website with everything from Roundup Ready to genetically modified corn and soy. They claim to “help farmers grow a sustainable crop so they can be successful, produce healthier foods, increase fiber in animal feed, while reducing agriculture's impact on our environment.” Their home page is brightly colored, depicts happy farmers, and promises to end world hunger. It tells the government and the public what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. Monsanto offers farmers a wide range of corn, soybean, cotton, wheat, canola, sorghum and sugarcane seeds. They are genetically modified and resist herbicide applications or keep pests away. While it seems beneficial, the long-term problems are devastating not only to the environment but to the entire human population. If plants are resistant to herbicides and pests, they may eventually be able to help insects (or pests) evolve and become capable of resisting even the strongest GM plants. If this were to happen, small farmers, who support themselves only by what they grow, could be ruined by a single infestation and nothing could save all their hard work. Monsanto is getting bigger and now supplies its genetically modified crops to over 70 different countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. That's more than three-quarters of the world's food dominated by a single company. They can control everything from prices to farmers' harvest itself. With no say in the matter, farmers around the world are forced to pay whatever Monsanto wants because... middle of paper... an event that has prompted lawsuits from farmers who wanted nothing to do with do with Monsanto's GMOs. If Monsanto's product is found in any field, they have the right to seize the crop due to their patient. So even if corn naturally crossbreeds and spreads across a farmer's field, it is still considered Monsanto property. In conclusion, Monsanto is destroying the genetic integrity of most naturally grown foods, ruining the lifestyles of many small farmers who depend on their crops to produce a living, and stealing money from people who have Monsanto's corn on their land simply through natural crosses of plants. The public needs to know what Monsanto is doing. Their website seems perfectly fine and makes them look super good and environmentally friendly, but that's what it was made to do. They only tell you what they want you to hear, not what you need to hear.