While small-scale farmers are being forced into economic impossibility by escalating land and production costs and are being undermined by government-subsidized mono-crops, a handful of corporate conglomerates is raking in millions and billions of dollars. Most of the following corporations are in the agriculture and petrochemical industry and are heavily invested in GMO food production:
- Monsanto
- Dow Chemical
- DuPont
- Chevron
- Shell
- Uniroyal
- Vulcan
- Union Carbide
- Stauffer Chemical
- Rhome-Poulenc Rorer
- Avery Dennison
- Rohm & Haas
- American Cynamid
- Philip Morris
- Nestle
- PepsiCo
- Coca-Cola
- Anheuser-Busch