
Controlling Our Food: The World According to Monsanto
Monsanto built its fortune on chemicals before it built one on seeds: Agent Orange components, PCB oils, and Napalm all came out of the same company that later became the world's dominant supplier of genetically modified crops. This film traces that history and lays it against Monsanto's more recent products, including glyphosate-based pesticides and hormone treatments used in dairy and meat production. Scientists, farmers, and former employees describe suspected links between these chemicals and cancer, birth defects, and cognitive disorders, and the film follows the paper trail connecting wartime chemical manufacturing to the seed patents and lawsuits that now shape global agriculture. It gives particular attention to how thoroughly Monsanto's products have spread through the food supply, often without clear labeling, and to the legal and political pressure the company has applied to keep it that way. The throughline is continuity: a company once known for one of the deadliest substances of the twentieth century now sits at the center of what much of the world eats.