Monsanto 2017

HII has been filing resolutions at Monsanto (MON) for at least two decades on issues of dangerous pesticides sold overseas, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), environmental sustainability, climate change, and on many corporate governance issues, including Proxy...

Upcoming – Back to Monsanto!

John Harrington has reintroduced a resolution to Monsanto asking for a study in response to the growing public outcry over the dangers of its products and the growing resistance against its use. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, has...

Success at Monsanto in 2016

In response to the recent classification of the ingredients in the Monsanto Company’s product, Roundup, as “probably carcinogenic to humans”, John Harrington, CEO of Harrington Investments, Inc., a Napa-based socially responsible investment advisory firm, introduced a...

Proposal Ends Soviet Bloc Style Voting at Monsanto

Feb 2, 2015 – Napa, CA –Monsanto shareholders adopted a shareholder proposal by John Harrington, CEO of Harrington Investments, Inc., (HII) a socially responsible investment advisory firm based in Napa, to request the board of directors to allow shareholders to...

USDA Regulators: Do Your Job

John Harrington calls on USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to stop pretending he can’t do anything about the rise in the use of toxic, cancer-causing and environment-wrecking pesticides. It’s time the USDA stood up to the million-dollar Big AG/GMO lobbyists in DC and takes...