Welcome to the Learn True Health Podcast. I'm your host Ashley James. This is

episode 2 80. I am so excited for today's guest, Carrie Gillum has written the most

amazing book, it's Whitewash, the story of weed killer, cancer, and the corruption of science.

You know, I feel like we're getting into one of those documentaries where by the end we feel like

we've been pulled out of the matrix, you know, what you're

exposing and what you're showing us is that we can't just blindly trust that everything

on the shelf is safe and we need to really be informed consumers.

And I love that you've dedicated your life to helping us navigate the dangerous

aisles of the stores as we buy things that we thought were safe like weed

killers and food so welcome to the show.

Well thank you thank you for having me.

Absolutely. I'd love for the listeners to hear your story. Thank you have

Thank you for having me.

Absolutely. I'd love for the listeners to hear your story.

You are an incredible journalist, a researcher, writer.

You have such a great amount of experience under your belt and I definitely want to learn more about you and what motivated you first to become a journalist.

Gosh, you know when people ask that, it's such an easy answer.

Really, there was never anything else that I wanted to be.

So I track it back, maybe I was 11 or 12 years old, you when people start saying what do you want to do when you grow up and

the only thing that I ever thought I wanted to be was a journalist now maybe that's because you know I was I was very young when Watergate happened and I was watching or my parents were watching Watergate and I came to learn about you know

Woodward and Bernstein and when I was a teenager you know that movie

all the president's men you know became a real favorite of mine so I just was

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