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In reply to the discussion: Monsanto, proud marketer of saccharin, pcb’s, and DDT, says GMO's are GREAT. [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)Saccharin was invented by Johns Hopkins University in 1879. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharin
DDT was invented by Bayer in 1874. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#History
PCBs were discovered in 1865 in Germany. Since there's more than one PCB, it's hard to define a single inventor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl#History
Monsanto was not the people behind the Manhattan project. So they did bring nuclear weapons "to the market".
Dioxins are a class of chemical, so like PCBs it's hard to identify a single inventor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxins_and_dioxin-like_compounds
Agent Orange was invented by the US and British militaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
Petroleum based fertilizer is a massively broad category of chemicals, with many inventors and products
Aspartame was discovered by G.D. Searle & Company in 1965 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Discovery_and_approval
Genetically modified crops were invented at a large variety of universities around the world.
If you have such a great argument, why do you have to start it by lying, and doing so in such an easy-to-refute way?