Sounds like a great book. Two of America's best investigative journalists (Bartlett & Steele) have just published an expose of Monsanto in Vanity Fair. Frighening that they are allowed to continue buying up seed companies. So much for the free market.
Even as the company is pushing its G.M. agenda, Monsanto is buying up conventional-seed companies. In 2005, Monsanto paid $1.4 billion for Seminis, which controlled 40 percent of the U.S. market for lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetable and fruit seeds. Two weeks later it announced the acquisition of the country's third-largest cottonseed company, Emergent Genetics, for $300 million. It's estimated that Monsanto seeds now account for 90 percent of the U.S. production of soybeans, which are used in food products beyond counting. Monsanto's acquisitions have fueled explosive growth, transforming the St. Louis - based corporation into the largest seed company in the world.