The Monsanto Company could not have put it
better. This was not surprising, since Raven (who retired in 2010) and
Monsanto were close, both geographically and financially. The Missouri
Botanical Garden was located just a few miles from Monsanto headquarters
in St. Louis, and it owed much of its explosive growth to the
beneficence of the corporation, which was in the process of changing its
public identity from a chemical manufacturer and purveyor of Agent
Orange to a “life sciences company” — one heavily invested in GMOs. In
April 1996, Monsanto CEO Robert Shapiro joined Raven to break ground for
the Monsanto Center, a four-story structure designed to house the
garden’s unique collection of botanical books and dried plants. Monsanto
had contributed $2 million toward the center’s construction, and had
also donated the land and $50 million for the Danforth Plant Science
Center, another GMO-intensive research facility.
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