Robert F. Kennedy: The Harmful Effects Of Glyphosate, The Most Common Agrochemical

 These chemicals – which are doing great damage to wildlife, habitat, and people – are touted by almost every Texas university, agency, and NGO. In Idaho, they are literally being forced on landowners by agencies like Idaho Fish and Game, and NGOs like Teton Regional Land Trust. In Yellowstone National Park, managers routinely spray roadsides with Roundup.

Here’s how the agro-giants are getting away with this.

Some of the most ubiquitous toxins are right on our food, on some of the most commonly eaten items in the American diet. It’s no wonder that illnesses related to toxicity, like cancer, infertility, and neurological diseases, are on the rise. The most widely used pesticide in our food supply is glyphosate. It’s used all over the world on more than 70 different food crops, including corn, soy, and wheat and is linked to some serious health risks, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It’s terrifying to consider that a bowl of Cheerios has more glyphosate per serving than vitamins D and B12, both of which are added to try to boost nutritional value.

We need to change our food system if we want to change our health, and it’s issues like these that need our help. I was so happy to sit down with my good friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to dig into the topic of glyphosate and corruption in the agricultural industry. Bobby Kennedy serves as President of Waterkeeper Alliance, Chairman of the Board and Chief Legal Counsel for Children’s Health Defense, and of counsel to Morgan & Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice. He was previously Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic.

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