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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

WINNING THE WAR ON MONSANTO

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In a sea of bleak news stories, a huge legal win against Monsanto is a reason to celebrate. The courts have finally acknowledged the negative impact of glyphosate on human health. Go back in time with Del to review The Highwire’s long history reporting on this dangerous chemical, and how this latest legal case could finally hold Monsanto responsible.

#Monsanto #Glyphosate #EPA

Transcript

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0:00.0

When darkness is taken over, when people are not thinking clearly and when they're starting

0:06.3

to move for all of the wrong reasons, when the financial interests of industry have so

0:12.4

taken over your government agencies, it seems like there is nothing you can do.

0:17.2

It seems completely hopeless, but I want to tell you that I'm a freaking warrior man and

0:22.5

I am not putting up with that.

0:23.7

I'm not afraid of these jerks.

0:25.3

I never have been.

0:27.3

And that's why I want to show you about a win, a subject just like this, one of the biggest

0:32.1

and the biggest chemical company in the world with the most ubiquitous chemical put on

0:38.0

all of our foods.

0:39.5

A huge win has just happened, but just to give you some insight into how long I, the high

0:45.2

wire, and even all the way back when I was on CBS and the doctors, I've been fighting

0:49.8

this company, Monsanto.

0:52.3

Here's what that looks like.

0:54.8

This is a story that I covered back when the World Health Organization had first ruled

1:00.4

that glyphosate is probably a carcinogenic to human beings.

1:03.8

I decided I wanted to try and do that story on the doctor's television show.

1:08.0

Anytime you hear the word cancer associated with food, rightly so it raises concerns.

1:13.3

You know, I'm a scientist at Monsanto for 20 years and this has been the molecule that

1:17.7

I've studied all of those years and I'm absolutely confident of the data behind it.

1:22.5

Many scientists who reviewed their research have declared it tobacco science, catching

1:27.6

them red handed, specifically designing their studies to avoid finding problems.

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