Monsanto (now a Pfizer subsidiary)

Monsanto hid Decades of pollution in Anniston, Alabama

Monsanto went to extraordinary efforts to keep the public in the dark about PCBs, and even manipulated scientific studies by urging scientists to change their conclusions to downplay the risks of PCB exposure.

Documents that emerging from a court case in 2000 show that Monsanto knew the truth as early as 1938. The plant was the source of thousands of pounds a year of deadly PCBs. For nearly forty years, unfiltered and untreated PCB waste was discharged directly into streams or dumped in landfills around town. Monsanto dumped at least 5.5 million pounds of PCBs in landfills located near the plant.

In 2003, Monsanto agreed to pay $700 million to more than 20,000 Anniston residents in the first civil suit of its kind. Thousands of pages of Monsanto documents many marked "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy" proved that, for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.

Board of Directors

Gregory H. Boyce - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Peabody Energy Corporation
David L. Chicoine, Ph.D. - president of South Dakota State University and professor of economics.
Janice L. Fields - former president of McDonald's USA, LLC, a subsidiary of McDonald's Corporation.
Hugh Grant - chairman and chief executive officer of Monsanto Company.
Arthur H. Harper -managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners.
Laura Ipsen - corporate vice president of Microsoft Corp.'s Worldwide Public Sector organization.
Gwendolyn S. King - president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau.
C. Steven McMillan - retired chairman of the board and CEO of Sara Lee Corporation.
Jon R. Moeller - chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.
William U. Parfet - chairman of the board, chief executive officer and President of MPI Research Inc.
George H. Poste, Ph. D., D.V.M. - chief executive of Health Technology Networks.
Robert J. Stevens - executive chairman of the board of Lockheed Martin Corporation.

We can all sleep soundly in the knowledge that Michael R. Taylor former Monsanto attorney and chief super lobbyist is now the FDA's Deputy Commissioner of Food.