Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

One October evening in 2016, an Arkansas farmer was sitting in his pickup truck just outside his field, and he was growing impatient. Suddenly, another car pulled up beside him. So, the farmer got out. Seconds later, he was murdered.

The farmer's name was Mike Wallace. He wasn't killed over money or land. He was killed over a herbicide, a chemical designed to destroy weeds. This herbicide spread fear through rural America, turning farmers against each other, all because it belonged to a certain company.

This company's policies, they pitted farmer against farmer, and they could just send henchmen to your door. Even if you just had the wrong seeds in your field, they could send you to court and bankrupt you. In effect, they had a farmland monopoly. They owned more than 80% of the seeds planted in the United States.

And to get this monopoly, they played the legal system, >> colluding with corrupted EPA officials, >> twisted scientific evidence. >> Appears to have been caught red-handed. >> But the chemicals they were making destroyed the health of communities all over the world. This is a video about Monsanto, one of the biggest agricultural companies in the world.

Our investigation is based on publicly available documents, recordings, and third party opinions. All sources are linked in the description. In 1942, a chemist named Franklin D. Jones made an unusual enemy, poison ivy.

You see, his children had a very violent reaction to the plant. They would get intense rashes and swelling when they brushed up against the ivy. So, Jones wanted a way to kill it. He experimented by spraying the ivy with hormones, chemicals that could regulate the plant's functions the same way they do in humans and animals.

His hope was that one of these hormones would cause it to die. Unfortunately, many had no effect, and others only made the ivy grow better. But then one day, Jones noticed that certain samples began to show autumn colors much sooner than they should have. He watched as the vibrant hues turned to twisted shapes and then within days these plants shriveled up and died.

Jones checked the chemical he sprayed them with and surprisingly it was a growth hormone called 24D. It's an acid made up of a ring of six carbons and hydrogens called a benzene ring with an acid tail. There are also two ...