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Among other things, way too into carbon markets. See its close partnership with and investment in Sylvera, for instance. Or its idolatrous substitution of "carbon credits" for God in its slogan: "In Carbon Credits we Trust."[1]

A young Mitt Romney, then working for Bain & Company, was responsible for Monsanto's pivot to food, seeds, & agriculture as a public relations strategy to rescue the reputation of its herbicide business in the 1980s, following significant backlash over the genocide + ecocide wrought by the company's flagship product Agent Orange[2][3]


Sources

  1. https://www.bain.com/insights/in-carbon-credits-we-trust-a-pragmatic-approach-to-scaling-up-the-voluntary-market/
  2. "The Virtual Fog of War" (forthcoming)
  3. Barrett, Wayne. “How Mitt Romney and Bain Helped Grow Monsanto Into a Biotech Giant,” September 17, 2012. https://www.alternet.org/food/how-mitt-romney-and-bain-helped-grow-monsanto-biotech-giant