Environmental Toxins Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Inflamed (Minisode #31)

Corporate Deception

Carey Gillam exposes Monsanto's long-term deceptive strategies to manage public perception of glyphosate safety. She reveals that Monsanto engaged in ghostwriting scientific papers, paying outside scientists to put their names on research that Monsanto's own scientists wrote and edited 1. This deception extended to ghostwriting op-eds and columns in major publications, all aimed at convincing the public and regulators that glyphosate was safe 2.

This company worked so hard for so many years, 40 years, really, to deny, to discredit, to harass, to do everything that it could in what really is a deceptive strategy.

--- Carey Gillam

   

Health Risks

Carey Gillam discusses the health risks of glyphosate and other pesticides, emphasizing the importance of eating organic to reduce exposure. She explains that government agencies have been tracking pesticide residues in foods for decades, but regulatory standards have been influenced by corporate interests 3. Additionally, she highlights the harmful effects of chlorpyrifos, an insecticide known to damage babies' brains, which remains in use in the U.S. despite being banned in other countries 4.

Chlorpyrifos is an insecticide that there is virtually no debate left in the scientific community about how harmful this is to babies, to young children, to fetuses in utero with their mothers exposed to it.

--- Carey Gillam