PEOPLE VS POISON
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's been a really wild week, I think, in many ways. |
| 0:04.0 | I don't know if you're feeling it, maybe it's just me, but it does feel like there's some big tectonic plates shifting below the feet of the Maha movement. |
| 0:14.0 | Of course, the biggest move and perhaps the most shocking and surprising was this conversation about glyphosate that broke |
| 0:25.1 | loose because of an executive order by President Trump. This was it promoting the national defense |
| 0:31.5 | by ensuring an adequate supply of elemental phosphorus and the cancer-causing glyposate-based herbicides. |
| 0:39.8 | Of course, I added that last part myself. |
| 0:42.3 | I feel like I have to, since that's about the only thing we've ever said about this product. |
| 0:46.9 | And I've been investigating it long before the high wire, even back on the doctor's television |
| 0:51.7 | show when I was a producer, I hosted a debate over what I think is one of the most toxic products on Earth should not be on our food supply. |
| 1:00.0 | So suddenly he's saying it was in the public's interest, really national security interest to stockpile this poison was a little shocking to me. |
| 1:09.0 | I don't think I was the only one, though. This is what the |
| 1:11.6 | news had to say about it. President Trump has expedited production of a key ingredient in the |
| 1:17.3 | weed killer Roundup. Trump signed the order last night. He invoked the Defense Production Act, |
| 1:23.1 | saying the herbicide is critical to economic and national security. The chemical is described in the order as essential to maintaining crop yields and controlling costs. |
| 1:33.3 | On Tuesday, Bayer agreed to propose $7.25 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits from people who say the product cause their cancer. |
| 1:43.3 | Bayer denies claims and says it is safe when used as directed. |
| 1:48.0 | The problem is that it's so widely used and has been sold as being non-toxic and safe, |
| 1:52.0 | has been repeatedly reapproved for use, but in actuality, tied to a number of different diseases. |
| 1:59.0 | This doesn't just affect farmers. |
| 2:01.6 | This is omnipresent. |
| 2:03.6 | They would probably find it in yours and my urine right now if they tested for it. |
| 2:08.6 | I was really surprising to see this statement made on a product that has been doing so poorly in courtrooms around America, tens of billions of dollars in losses |
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