Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. This is the audio version of each episode of the Empire Files hosted on Telesaur English. You can watch every episode at the Empirefiles. TV.

Last month, the University of San Francisco made an alarming discovery. That 93% of Americans tested had traces of a chemical called glyphosate in their urine.

Last year, the World Health Organization deemed glyphosate a possible carcinogen.

So why is glyphosate everywhere, including inside of us?

Because it's the main ingredient in biotech giant Monsanto's flagship product, Roundup,

a pesticide sprayed all over almost every acre of food grown.

Not only has Roundup been dumped around the world more than any other weed killer in history,

but the U.S. is its largest customer.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a record 280 million pounds were used in 2010 alone,

nearly one pound of poison for every American.

With new revelations of a seemingly urgent health crisis of a cancerous chemical infecting

nearly everyone, one would think the company responsible, along with the U.S. government,

would take measures to protect people. But in fact, they along with the U.S. government, would take measures to protect people,

but in fact they've done the opposite.

Monsanto has already proven it cannot be trusted to care about anything but money, especially

when lives are at stake.

A quick look at the corporation's scandalous history reveals it as a sinister threat to the

planet's ecosystem, economies around the world,

as well as the livelihoods, and very lives of millions of people.

Monsanto was born in America in 1901 by a man named John Francis Queenie.

His new company was financed by the blood and sweat of Puerto Rican farm workers

when his father-in-law and big sugar merchant,

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