The funny part is that Monsanto's cash--including "ongoing support" for Fumento's emplyer, the Hudson Institute--has bought so little. I've spent a lot of time the past year studying this company, and I had no idea that Michael Fumento--last seen debunking the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s--was flacking for them. I like this bit from the Business Week article:

Fumento also points out that he criticized Monsanto publicly in a 1999 Forbes magazine column, calling the company "chicken-hearted" for caving in to pressure from environmentalists to terminate a seed program.

That's good stuff. With harsh critics like Fumento on the loose, I guess I can go back to just farming.