The name Agent Orange comes from the herbicide shipping container, which has an orange stripe to identify it. The United States sprayed more than seventy million liters of herbicides in the Vietnam War, of which more than forty million liters were Agent Orange dioxin (Joseph. 2011). When a forest is sprayed, Agent Orange destroys all the vegetation. It destroys roots and leaves, turning a leafy forest barren. Not only that, Agent Orange is absorbed into the soil and prevents the development of later crops, destroys agriculture, and affects human health. In his research, Galston adjusted acidity in small doses to stimulate the growth of plants, but in higher doses, it can cause trees to lose all their leaves [Nil]. This principle applies to Agent Orange; it promotes plant tissue in rapidly growing trees that do not absorb nutrients to die. Agent Orange is also known as a defoliant (Joseph. 2011). There are many different types of dioxins, some of which are in the natural form in environments with very low numbers. Dioxins are created as a product of industrial processes, as combustion of waste or the smelting process. More than forty-seven years after the first day the United States sprayed Agent Orange in Vietnam, the damage is still there (Stone. 2007). .
"From fish through primates, it's the most toxic," Birnbaum says. Stellman estimates that more than three thousand villages with at least 2.1 million people were sprayed directly with Agent Orange (Stellman et al., 2003). In 1970, when Operation Ranch Hand finally ended, over 3.6 million hectares of forest and villages in Central and Southern Vietnam had been covered with millions of liters of toxic herbicide (Tuyet & Johansson, 2001). The water they drank and food they ate had dioxin poison. They and their children have diseases. Bien Hoa and Da Nang are two areas that have dioxins in blood, the highest in the whole country at four hundred parts per trillion (Stellman.
