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Dow Chemical

Last edited by Tonya Hennessey on August 16, 2008 - 1:39am
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The Dow Chemical Company is the world’s second largest chemical company, behind only BASF. Dow’s primary industries are chemicals, herbicides, pesticides, agricultural sciences and plastics. Dow is infamous for having been one of the big manufacturers of the dioxin-contaminated herbicide Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Vietnam. Dow acquired Union Carbide, the company responsible for the Bhopal, India disaster, in 2001. (For more details, see The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.)

Monsanto

Last edited by Charlie Cray on August 15, 2008 - 9:34am
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Monsanto is the biggest seller of genetically modified (GM) crop seeds in the world, holding at least 70% market share for most major GE crop seeds. Since acquiring Seminis Inc. in March 2005, Monsanto has also been the largest conventional seed company in the world. Most of the GM-seeds the company sells are designed to be co-sold with RoundUp (glyphosate), the world’s biggest selling herbicide.

International Paper

Last edited by apocalypticbeef on July 16, 2008 - 4:08pm
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International Paper is an American pulp and paper company, the second largest pulp and paper company in the world. The company produces printing and writing papers, pulp, paperboard and packaging and wood products. It also manufactures specialty items including tissue products; photographic films, papers and equipment; nonwovens; specialty chemicals; and specialty panels and laminated products. The Company also distributes printing and writing papers and other products in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim.

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