- 0:00 An Unusual Enemy
- 5:18 Monsanto’s Secret Poison Problem
- 11:17 Vietnam and Agent Orange
- 14:08 Roundup
- 19:31 How Monsanto controls seeds
- 24:20 ADVERTISEMENT
- 26:02 The Crop Mafia
- 31:10 The Monsanto Papers
- 41:18 How dangerous is Roundup really?
0·21 days ago- 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T were popular herbicides used in industrial agriculture.
- They were not suitable for lawn use, as they would kill desired plants along with weeds.
- Companies selling lawn seeds switched from mixed meadow seeds to pure grass.
- Grass is highly resistant to 2,4-D and all but immune to 2,4,5-T.
- Agent Orange was a 50/50 mixture of these two chemicals.
- The mission to defoliate 20% of the jungle in South Viet Nam: “Operation Ranch Hand”
- The soil and water of southern Viet Nam and Cambodia remain contaminated to this day.
- People cannot grow most crops in areas heavily contaminated by Agent Orange…
- …but they can grow cow pasture.
- The people in charge of Operation Ranch Hand must have known what they were doing.
- Rich old men on both sides got richer, and everyone else is fucked.
- The people in charge of the seed and chemical companies must have known what they were doing.
- Rich old men on both sides got richer, and everyone else is fucked.