Hey everybody, I have an old friend of mine on today and I'm really excited about her.

Investigative Journalist Carrie Gillam has spent 25 years researching the food, agricultural

and agricultural industry and in most of her career with the International News Agency Reuters.

She is now emerging as a modern-day Rachel Carson with two books that reveal decades of corporate

secrets and deceptive tactics by powerful pesticide companies, including the Global Giant,

Montenanto, her books and her ongoing reporting and her writing have led her to become recognized

as an international expert on corporate control of agriculture and the health and environmental impacts

of a pesticide-dependent food system. She was asked to testify before the European Parliament

2017. She has been a invited speaker of the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, France.

She's keynoteed events all over the country on all over many countries on almost all of the

continents. The Gillam 2017 book White Wash, the Story of the Wheat Killer Cancer and the Corruption

of Science won the 2018 Rachel Carson Book Award and the Gold Medal for Outstanding Work

in the Independent Book Publishers and many other awards, her second book, which we were going

to talk about today. We're going to talk about both of them was released on March 2nd of this

year and it's called the Montenanto Papers, deadly secrets, corporate corruption and one man

searched for justice and it has been described by a reviewer as blending quote science and human

tragedy with courtroom drama and this dialogue on Grisham. That book is about art, the

Montsanto trial in which I was privileged to be one part of the trial team in that trial and I

spent a lot of time with Carrie in San Francisco and Oakland and particularly with Lee Johnson's

trial. Let's go right into the government industry corruption and what we were able to get with

the Montsanto paper is where we really got a glimpse of what was happening of this extraordinarily

corrupt relationship between particularly the EPA pesticide division and it turns out that the

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