New GMO Film Highlights Monsanto’s Mounting Problems

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Mark Melin
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August 10, 2018 was a day that shocked Monsanto executives. Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc That was when a San Francisco jury found that the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, RoundUp and Ranger Pro, caused cancer in a man who was exposed to the pesticide. While evidence exposed in the trial suggested that the company might have already had clues as to this correlation – critics charge they misled the court and manipulated studies — what was most shocking was the jury’s award of $289 million to one individual, school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson. When Monsanto was sold to Bayer, concerns over glyphosate…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.