The Pesticide Playbook: Inside a Chemical Company’s Cover-Up | Fault Lines Documentary

For decades, one of the world’s largest pesticide manufacturers deployed the Big Tobacco playbook to keep its flagship product ubiquitous—despite the company’s own internal research showing that it harmed farmers.

Today the pesticide, paraquat, is banned in 58 countries—but its use is on the rise in the United States, despite mounting scientific evidence that it causes Parkinson’s disease.

Now, American farmers are challenging its manufacturer, Syngenta, in court, alleging it minimised, obfuscated and manipulated the science linking its product to Parkinson’s.

The outcome of the case could help determine whether wide swathes of the United States remain doused in one of the most toxic pesticides on earth.

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Producer: Jeremy Raff
Correspondent: Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Director of Photography: Carissa Henderson, Bruno Federico
Editor: Warwick Meade
Executive Producer: Laila Al-Arian
Additional Photography: Jeremy Raff
Production Manager: Anabelle Rojas
Fact-checking: Abdulai Bah
Sound Mix: Linus Bergman
Digital Producer: Riham Mansour

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