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Why did Monsanto and Bayer start producing and selling chemical weapons?…
Why did Monsanto and Bayer start producing and selling chemical weapons?
WWI
first use of chemical weapons: chlorine gas by the Germans
Impacts/Profit
what prompted the creation
WWII
IG Farben and Hitlers War Machine
Chemical Weapons and gas chamber gas
Tried at Nuremberg Trials
Constituents disband: creating Bayer again
impacts/profit
What prompted the involvement
Vietnam
Agent Orange
Impacts/profit
What prompted creation
Types of chemical weapons of interest
Chlorine Gas
Herbicides (Agent Orange)
Impacts they cause
Introduction
Starts by describing the world created by companies like monsanto/bayer
Let people know what you're talking about
Body Information
Body Information
WWI and WWII
Thesis
Although most scientists today agree that WWI (and other wars) had incredible impacts on science, the chance for corporate profit and governmental pressures were also key reasons companies like Monsanto and IG Farben (Bayer) started supplying chemicals for the war effort.
Body Information: General background
Monsanto
1920's: expanded into industrial chemicals (like PCBs)
60's and 70's: Major producer of Agent Orange for Vietnam
1901: Founded in St. Louis as a chemical co
80's: Transition into an agrobiotech
Bayer
Started as a pharmaceutical company
WWI: Made chlorine gas
Founded in 1863
WWI: death camp slave labor, gas for the chambers
Conclusion
Summarize main points, tie into intro