Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of full measure after hours.

Today, how the pesticide industry is seeking vaccine-type legal immunity.

You might say there is an uproar over President Trump's recent action impacting a widely used weed killer linked to cancer.

In February, President Trump issued an executive order under the Defense Production Act to boost production of this chemical to supposedly protect America's food supply.

It gives some immunity to the makers of the product, but experts say it is not a blanket shield.

It only covers immunity for acts related to complying with the order or boosting production of

glyphosate, the chemical that was widely used in Roundup

and linked in many lawsuits and settlements to cancer. Why the executive order? Well, President

Trump and farmers and the makers of glyphosate say, we have to have these chemicals to mass produce or mass farm America's food. This is,

they say, a national security issue. And without these chemicals, they cannot have the same

kinds of yields. And it's a big potential issue. But there are health advocates who say all of this

is hazardous to our health, not only the chemical,

but also the idea of giving immunity to the makers of the chemical.

And in today's podcast, you're going to hear from one of those health advocates, Leah Wilson,

who likens what the pesticide industry is doing now, lobbying for this immunity,

likens it to what the vaccine industry did a couple of decades ago in order to get immunity

from lawsuits from vaccine injuries. And they successfully lobbied Congress saying,

if you don't give us immunity, we are being sued by so many

people successfully sued for at the time brain injury caused by the then DPP vaccine, the industry

said, we're going to stop making vaccines if you don't protect us from liability. It costs us

too much. And Congress, which is the recipient of a lot of money from the pharmaceutical

and vaccine industry, complied, set up a special court, basically made it where in general

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