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Jimmy Emmons – Candidate for Secretary of Agriculture
The Ag Secretary appointment is imminent. Many factors go into selecting and appointing an AgSec, and several candidates have already been considered. There is hope that Jimmy will be able to garner the trust of team Trump and represent MAHA interests – and be confirmed in Senate! Jimmy has upper-level USDA government experience in the…
Instructions for Contacting Your Elected Officials Re: Farm Bill
Background: We must speak up to prevent a highly damaging clause in the Farm Bill draft from inclusion in the final version. Bayer has lost 70% of shareholder value since 2018, stemming primarily from the glyphosate lawsuits. Instead of admitting that glyphosate causes cancer, they are trying to prevent us from being able to sue…
Safe School Meals Act
Booker Introduces Bill to Eliminate Toxics from School Lunches and Expand Support for Regenerative Farmers WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Safe School Meals Act (SSMA), legislation to protect children from harmful toxics in school meals. The bill would place limits on heavy metals, ban certain pesticide residues, trigger the…
What is Glyphosate?
Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine) is a synthetic, organophosphorus compound that we are exposed to in our food, water, rain, air, personal products, and landscapes. Glyphosate was originally developed and tested for pharmaceutical use in 1950. When no pharmaceutical uses were found, it became a common metal boiler and pipe cleaner due to its ability to effectively…
Twisted Incentives and Unhealthy Profits
The summer of 2018 offered some captivating headlines. Starbucks gave up on straws, a watery lake was found on Mars, and Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin secretly married in a NYC courthouse. In less popular news, the notorious chemical company Monsanto faced its first jury trial in corporate history. Apocalyptic wildfire smoke ironically ensconced San…
The Glaring Omission in the Food Is Medicine Movement
By Kelly Ryerson The hot buzz phrase in nutrition “Food Is Medicine” should have a permanent asterisk with qualifiers. It is no surprise to most that replacing highly processed food with more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains should produce better health outcomes. But there is a hitch. If they are laden with harmful synthetic chemicals,…
Bobby Kennedy & the Glyphosate Trenches
Five summers ago, Dwayne Lee Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, won a lawsuit against Monsanto. He claimed that exposure to the weedkiller glyphosate caused his Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, and the jury agreed. Johnson ultimately won a multimillion dollar settlement, and over one hundred thousand more cases were settled out of court for over $10 billion. I…
Prop 65 Revisited
I have my general gripes about California, but here and there I am pleasantly surprised by some pro-environmental health policies. Like the existence of Prop 65. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has an impactful program to list chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity on a list…
Monsanto Alum Clarence Thomas
As we awaited the response from SCOTUS as to whether or not they would hear the Monsanto v Hardeman and Monsanto v Pillios appeals, I wondered how Thomas and his conservative team would possibly deny hearing the case.
Momma Go My Bail – A Trial Update
By Agent OJ – Bob Howard After serving as a juror at the first Roundup trial in state court (Monsanto Co. v. Johnson) back in the summer of 2018, I recall thinking that this whole Monsanto/glyphosate mess would eventually be neatly resolved by the Supreme Court Of the United States sometime in the distant future.…
Sowing With Salt
As with most events of modern life, there are often parallels in antiquity. Not much of a history buff, I wouldn’t be privy to these parallels if my husband and son didn’t have something of an abnormal obsession with ancient history. The Roman Empire really only crosses my mind in February when the Superbowl numbering…
