Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

Veritasium August 31, 2025
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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. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up to the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates - https://ve42.co/Newsletter We have a tabletop game launching! Pledge your support now - https://ve42.co/KickStarterD ▀▀▀ 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 Check out Carey Gillam’s books here — https://ve42.co/Gillam Check out Bart Elmore’s book here — https://ve42.co/SeedMoney The opening music track “Another Offering” is from https://audiomachine.com/ ▀▀▀ 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? ▀▀▀ References: References can be found here - https://ve42.co/MonsantoReferences Images & Video: Image and video references can be found here - https://ve42.co/MonsantoVisuals ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Adam Foreman, Albert Wenger, Alex Porter, Alexander Tamas, Anton Ragin, armedtoe, Balkrishna Heroor, Bertrand Serlet, Blake Byers, Bruce, Dave Kircher, David Johnston, David Tseng, Evgeny Skvortsov, Garrett Mueller, Gnare, gpoly, Ibby Hadeed, Jeromy Johnson, Jon Jamison, JT, Juan Benet, Justin Waters, Keith England, KeyWestr, Kyi, Lee Redden, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Matthias Wrobel, Meekay, meg noah, Michael Bush, Michael Krugman, Orlando Bassotto, Paul Peijzel, Richard Sundvall, Robert Oliveira, Sam Lutfi, Tj Steyn, Ubiquity Ventures and wolfee ▀▀▀ 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 Assistant Writer: Daniel Leonard 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 Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images, Storyblocks Music from Epidemic Sound

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