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Monsanto becomes one of the four main manufacturers of Agent Orange.

Date: 1962

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Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant used by the United States during the Vietnam War to destroy croplands.

Later, it will be implicated in high rates of cancer and banned. Internal memos show that Monsanto knows of the dangerous impact of dioxin when it begins production.