And at one point in the 80s, the US environmental protection

of the instance, the EPA had considered glyphosate

a probable, possible carcinogen.

But Monsanto, using their regulatory power and their political connections basically in the Reagan administration, we're able to get that reversed and get glyphosate round up 100% approved.

But here, the thing is when they did those tests,

they didn't know anything about endocrine disruption.

Endocrine disrupting chemicals,

the ability of your body to be impacted at very low levels, very low levels of chemicals,

parts per billion, even parts for trillion, disrupting your sexual hormone chemicals. But the ironic thing is recent research and this is

mostly being done in Europe a study found that just 0.1 parts per billion of

roundup and that's 0.05 parts per billion of Roundup and that's 0.05 parts per billion.

And if I have to say altered the gene function of over 4,000 genes

in the livers and kidneys of Rats. Paul Check. Today's guest is Dave Murphy, the Executive Director of Food Democracy Now.

This grassroots community of more than 700,000 farmers and citizens is dedicated to reforming food and agriculture.

In the past decade, Dave has helped pass more than a dozen bills at the federal, state and

local level in the USA,

as well as major amendments in the Farm Bill

that advocate for transparency and farmer protections in the marketplace.

He has also worked as an environmental and food policy

lobbyist and political strategist. His writing has appeared in The

Nation, The Hill, Huffington Post and the New York Times.

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