2025-08-31

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This is the history of Monsanto’s herbicides… Sponsored by Incogni - Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off.

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A huge thank you to Carey Gillam at the New Lede, Nathan Donley at the Center for Biological Diversity, and Bart Elmore at Ohio State University for their time and expertise on the topic.

A very special thank you to Prof. Dr. András Székács at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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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

26:06 The Crop Mafia

31:10 The Monsanto Papers

41:18 How dangerous is Roundup really?

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References:

References can be found here - https://ve42.co/MonsantoReferences

Images & Video:

Image and video references can be found here - https://ve42.co/MonsantoVisuals

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Writers: Gregor Čavlović, Casper Mebius & Derek Muller

Producer & Director: Gregor Čavlović

Editor: Spencer Wright & Peter Nelson

Camera Operators: Gregor Čavlović, Henry van Dyck & Casper Mebius

Animators: Allama Nandi, Andrew Neet, Emma Wright, Fabio Albertelli, Ivy Tello, Rokas Viksraitis & Saif Javed

Illustrators: Jakub Misiek, Maria Gusakovich, Veronika Pasynkova, Grace Nemanic, Isaac McRee, Nataly Zhuk & Hollisstudioo

Assistant Editor: James Stuart & Fabio Albertelli

Sound Designer: Pavle Peric

Researchers: Callum Cuttle, Aakash Singh Bagga, Gabe Strong & HyoJeong Choi

Thumbnail Designers: Abdallah Rabah, Ren Hurley & Ben Powell

Production Team: Josh Pitt, Nicola Griffiths, Matthew Cavanagh, Rob Beasley Spence & Zoe Heron

Executive Producers: Derek Muller & Casper Mebius

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