How is the money invested exactly, do you know?<p>Is he actually funding those companies in some way, or does he just own some stocks as part of some very diversified portfolio?<p>If it&#x27;s the former, I really want to know. If it&#x27;s the latter, stating that the Gates is financially supporting the destruction of agriculture is a very very strong claim. You need to argue that buying a company&#x27;s stock on an open market does something significant besides increase the price of that stock by some small amount, or that the increase is meaningful. I have a hard time imagining what practical impact it would have on Monsanto&#x27;s short term or long term operations that would justify using words such as &quot;hypocrite&quot;.<p>There are investment funds that try to avoid &quot;dirty&quot; stocks, and it maybe it would be morally better to invest only in those funds. Until then, is everyone who invests in an index fund &quot;dirty&quot;? Monsanto is part of the S&amp;P 500 after all.