The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product | Four Corners

It's so disgusting to watch people lie with a straight face if you wave a dollar bill at them.

They keep directing you towards the 'scientific studies', and they never explain that they are the ones whom funded those studies.

If you pay attention, notice how many of the representatives of Bayer/Monsanto, as well as the Australian regulators don't answer the questions they were asked. Yet, everyone who doesn't have a potential conflict-of-interest are fully transparent in their answers as well as their methodology. That's really all you need. Transparent vs obscurity, when it's a matter of public safety, speaks beyond volumes.

0:25 glyphosate 0:40 50L $1000 drum - liquid gold revolution 1:07 Monsanto patent Roundup - most widely used herbicide on the planet 1:25 Outside of organic farmers, 100% of farmers use Roundup (no alternative except plowing) 2:15 Out of all chems used, thinks safest - with necessary precautions 3:15 use for week straight - Non Hodgkin's lymphoma 4:05 "Farmer's lymphoma" overrepresentation 4:45 Farmer's junkies cause of Monsanto - no info for informed decision to use 5:12 August USA criminal case $289 million compensation 6:03 Case specifics - 150 gallons 6:40 Lesion pics 7:12 Jury result - substantial factor in causing 7:40 More cases 7:50 Monsanto challenging case, Bayer rep - doesn't change science or 800 scientific studies, 40 years of use 8:35 Iowa biggest Farm progress show in USA 8:59 Monsanto Way street 9:00 German Bayer bought Monsanto 63 billion dollars 9:05 Lymphoma questions 9:30 800 scientific studies, 40 years of use, Roundup no cancer 10:05 Remove controversial Monsanto name but keep products 10:20 farmers dismissive of case 11:05 Iowa USA breadbasket 1835 12:00 Roundup ready seeds GM for roundup resistance 90% of USA corn - Herbicide tolerance system 12:38 Not a concern on skin 12:58 - difficult to imagine farming without Glyphosate - more tillage, in crop row cultivation or worse herbicides 13:29 Missouri Monsanto headquarters, ad 13:40 Worldwide campaign to deny dangerous 13:55 800 scientific studies - Monsanto VP Scott Partridge 14:28 Scientific literature corrupted - glyphosate 15:00 Exposed in internal documents - Monsanto papers (discovery documents forced to turn over for litigation) 15:40 investigating Monsanto 20 years 15:50 Ghost-writing scientific literature 16:07 Monsanto ad - perennial weeds 16:30 1970s adriculture revolution 17:15 Brazil, "world's most trusted herbicide" farmers and home gardeners 17:22 Malaysia 17:50 Safe enough to drink, than table salt 18:05 lab fabrication EPA cooking books 19:00 "Not fraudulent but wrong errors" - Monsanto 19:11 Carcinogenic, EPA overruled own scientists 19:53 falsification test results 20:10 "Monsanto rectify" 20:24 Monsanto victim of fraud 20:40 Roundup garden ads - NY attorney general 21:00 False safe advertising - less dangerous than table salt, stop in NY but continue in rest 21:35 prohibited by federal law - false and misleading, lying 22:20 Potential risks carcinogen - lead toxicologists 2003 23:08 WHO Cancer test on glyphosate - 2014 IARC assess glyphosate 23:30 Email proof 23:40 PR campaign to denounce and discredit "orchestrate outcry" 23:50 PR campaign - inform public truth, mischaracterisation. 24:37 Imply WHO IARC after Monsanto "besmirch" 25:07 Epidemiologist IARC - best in planet 25:40 IARC = Probable carcinogen 26:00 Criticism personal and IARC denial 26:30 Glyphosate ghost writing in magazine article 26:50 "No ghostwriting" 27:16 Gov review lobbying - USA EPA 27:30 derail Monsanto and CropLife funded by agrochemical 28:06 EPA scientists denied 28:45 Agree with IARC - Non Hodgkin's lymphoma, worked for gov but was kicked out 29:00 Croplife lobby 29:40 Letter caused removal - after Trump election 29:50 Killed off earlier assessment by US health department with help from EPA 30:25 EPA collusion with Monsanto 30:30 "work together no collusion" 30:48 More legal cases over 9000 in USA against Roundup 31:05 Really bad chemicals every origin is Monsanto - DDT, PCB, Agent Orange - business out of poisoning people and getting away with it 31:40 Farmer NHL California 5 gallons - didn't warn 33:00 Systematic and deliberate attack 33:28 "safest herbicide" 33:48 Aus enormous implications 34:25 Brazil ban then lifted 35:00 Worse alternatives 35:40 Aus regulator hasn't reviewed 35:55 No reason to change legulatory - Financial dependence conflict of interest 37:05 Service of industry 37:20 Cancer council of Aus wants review 37:55 Croplife Aus 38:20 $140000 croplife aus political donations 38:40 "No political donations" 38:55 Cancer council - no diff 39:40 2014 credit remove aus bill 40:25 More than 500 glyphosate products in Aus today, no warnings 40:48 atm still ok 41:21 France and Germany ban, questions 41:30 Gov needs to inquire to ensure Aus actual world leaders in agro

No way! A multinational company covering up the harmful effects of its products. This is unprecedented.

For years the tobacco industry told us that smoking didn’t cause cancer and now they have health warnings on every packet of cigarettes. The problem Bayer Monsanto has is the lie they have been telling has become so big that they can’t stop telling it.

Look what Agent Orange is still doing to the Vietnamese children. They never paid out to them.

Man I told my Dad so many years ago how BAD this is. Poor Earth. I hurt for it.

These people should be judged and convicted for crimes against humanity

"We work with the government" Criminals sitting in governments

I'm in no way an environmentalist, but after doing my own research we decided to stop using chemicals on our farm and return to old fashioned cultivating instead of using weed killers.

Monsanto can demonstrate the safeness by having their CEO's bathe in it.

Holy crap. The commercial before this video was a Roundup advertisement! Talk about a slap in the face. I’ve never seen a Roundup ad on YouTube before this moment. Double slap

So Germany's Bayer Company got their poison back. Circle of death.

I'm Chilean, and I worked for three years in an Australian farm. I demanded disposable overalls and a respirator for myself to spray the crops, everyone would give me funny looks because they thought it wasn't necessary to be so protected. All the other guys used to spray stuff wearing shorts and t-shirts even though they had the chance of doing it protected. The same happens with the sun, they'd never wear long sleeves, hats, and sunscreen, but after a few years they wonder why they have melanoma.

As a metal worker who supplies agriculture, I am familiar with msds (material safety data sheets). In my shop there is a binder full of informative toxicology of the various products used. Abrasive disks, solvents, coolants, lubricants, different metals. Many are listed as know to be cancerous, neurotoxin, or irritants and provide advise on the proper use of their products to minimize risks. And all these materials don't kill plants. The last time I looked at the msds sheet for glysophate they claim the risk of cancer is unknown due to lack of testing. Roundup literally kills life and they forgot to test how it interacts on the human body. What were the 800 studies they refer to?

I have used Roundup for many years, as did my father when I was young. Nobody in our family had any health problems that could be attributed to glyphosate, but I have recently begun to reconsider my view of it's safety. The biggest question that comes to my mind after watching this, "If glyphosate is as safe as Monsanto and Bayer claim, why would they fight so vigorously against independent or government testing that could potentially verify their claims?".

"We work with the government..." This exactly the reason we have to doubt Monsanto's "scientific studies."

In my first 6 months practicing as a junior doctor 6 people died from Roundup poisoning. Including a 72 year old farmer who inhaled some while spraying, and an 18 yr old who drank some while drunk.

My mother was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.. and we blamed it on the Roundup that was used by the lawn care company that came once a month and put Roundup down on the lawn, eventually our dog a little Corgi close to the ground developed all kinds of health issues. I totally blame my mother's disease that developed from the Roundup that was used around the house once a month. And to this I hold.