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Downwind (2023)
maxx.black2 12 points 5 months ago*.

It was Manufactured by Monsanto, and was used extensively in Vietnam during the latter half of the 60’s. Agent Orange was an extremely potent (and highly toxic) defoliant. What Monsanto would eventually do, would be to change it’s chemical composition before re-releasing it for public & commercial use under the name “Roundup”. Bayer Corp now owns the company, and is still producing and selling this product. In ‘78 and ‘79 (when I was using it), no one was yet aware of what the long term side affects were until a decade or so later. And, at that time, I certainly didn’t know either…

burgermeister 3 points 5 months ago.

A couple of things…2-4-D is one of two components of Agent Orange and it’s in well over a thousand different herbicides. The other component, 2,4,5-T, is the highly toxic and carcinogenic one. 2-4-D is used in the non-glyphosate version of Roundup, but 2,4,5-T is not in any version. It was banned in the US in 1970 for use on food crops, banned altogether in the US and Canada in 1985, and banned internationally in 2004.