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  • Essay / Critical analysis of Monsanto's harvest of fear?

    Barlett and Steele, after making clear arguments against Monsanto's legal tactics, fail to provide adequate evidence to supplement the accounts of extra-legal tactics, leaving readers in the position of justifying Monsanto's alleged conduct based on its legal aggression. . Barlett and Steele's decision to supplement their arguments with first-person accounts from targeted victims added characters to an otherwise solid chronological observation and provided authentic testimony against anonymous company representatives who may not represent the views and opinions of their employer(s). Barlett and Steele, who have made little comment on the differences between non-GMO and GMO products, criticize Monsanto's aggressive and unorthodox expansion as well as its misuse of the legal system to call attention to the authoritarian company and its activities.