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work_yuja6cxulbe4plgt4u3z7z2hxu	BARTOW J. ELMORE	The Commercial Ecology of Scavenger Capitalism: Monsanto, Fossil Fuels, and the Remaking of a Chemical Giant	2017	26	.pdf	application/pdf	11821	969	58	Monsanto's transformation from a chemical firm to a biotechnology business in the 1980s and 1990s reveals that an increasingly proprietary claims to critical natural resources, the key was finding new ways to make money without depending on fossil fuels. in the late 1970s also paved the way for a new economy run by businesses that did not vertically integrate into bulk commodity production. For years, many chemical firms had made big profits sourcing their raw materials from the Monsanto's remarkable transition from chemical king to biotechnology business showed how contests over natural resources were integral Series 3, Box 1, Folder: Coal Tar, Monsanto Company Records, 1901–2008, University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries One bet that paid off for Edgar Queeny was his decision to commit Monsanto to a new fossil fuel feedstock: byproducts of petroleum big changes in the oil industry began to thwart Monsanto's scavenging 	./cache/work_yuja6cxulbe4plgt4u3z7z2hxu.pdf	./txt/work_yuja6cxulbe4plgt4u3z7z2hxu.txt