10 Most Interesting Companies In The World

#9 Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON)

If we made a list of the most hated companies in the world, Monsanto would probably rank highly on that list. The company is often cited by conspiracy theorists as one of the major arms of the NWO or “elite” that are in the process of unleashing their diabolical master plan on humanity. Normal people simply dislike its monopoly of seeds (which is set to become even greater if its proposed merger with Bayer goes through), and the fact that it creates “frankenfood”, which they believe is not safe for human consumption.

However, it also ranks as one of the most interesting companies in the world, for some of those same reasons, and because despite the hate, it is working on initiatives that could go a long way to improving food security. One of those involves a recent accord with NRGene, an Isreali company that has mapped the genome of bread, pasta, and wild emmer wheat. The collaboration could help create more resilient and bountiful strains of those and other crops. Monsanto spends about half of its R&D money on breeding and testing new strains of plants, all in an effort to improve food production, which is a noble and necessary aim.

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