Monsanto Company

Monsanto Company800 N. Lindbergh Blvd.St. Louis, MO 63167
(314) 694-1000

Dear Monsanto Company and Members of Monsanto Company,

I am addressing Monsanto as both a company and as a group of individuals who probably aren’t so different from myself. I am sure you are a company composed of individual mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers who care about the future of America.

I am a concerned consumer who has heard many negative things about your company’s dairy additive, POSILAC. What I have heard of POSILAC is that is uses the bovine growth hormone, rBST to increase milk production in dairy cows. I have also heard that a boost in dairy production is unnecessary, because the government is already paying dairy farmers to not produce more milk. I have heard that milk from cows treated with POSILAC has been outlawed in the UK and in Canada. I have heard that cows treated with POSILAC often experience painfully swollen udders, and develop infections that cause pus to drip into the milk that is milked from them.

If these things are true, then I think POSILAC is a threat to the safety of our people and our animals. If these things are true, I can’t begin to imagine the effects of other Monsanto agricultural and livestock products. Most people I know are now buying only milk labeled as “Not produced using rBST”. (Though I don’t know how trustworthy those labels are.) I am currently researching Monsanto products in an attempt to identify which companies use Monsanto products, so that I can avoid purchasing those products. I intend to share any information I find with my friends, family, and the families of the children I tutor.

I understand that in a big company like Monsanto, it is probably quite difficult (possibly frightening) for the individual reading this letter to make any large changes. There are always stockholders, special interest groups, and profit models putting pressure on big companies. However, I think an intelligent business has to keep the loyalty of a large consumer base. That can only be done for so long by suppressing scientific information. Especially in the age of the internet, the truth will leak out and the public will know.
I truly believe that if every mother, father, sister, and brother that works for (or holds stock in) Monsanto would have the bravery to join together, I think a change could be made. As a consumer, I suggest that your company start doing something to win the trust of the global public now. The more time that goes by, the more we want quality, not quantity. We want a sustainable future for our children, not a race to deplete all we can from the earth and its creatures in the interest of short term profit gain. I suggest that your company find innovative and earth friendly fields of agriculture to direct your focus toward. Monsanto could do this while it still has the time keep economic risk low by making the changes gradually.

I will post a copy of this letter to your company on my blog, which can be found here: http://windofourlittlewings.blogspot.com/ , so that I can share our correspondence with the people I know. Please respond to me at active.customer@gmail.com. Do not send me insincere pre-planned responses or Monsanto advertising. I want to see that your company intends to do something genuine and beneficial for this world.

Please be brave enough to make change.



Loretta Fisher