⚠️ She breaks it down perfectly❗️ pic.twitter.com/5uyn4thU0w
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Her name is Courtney Swan, MS, and sitting next to her is Jillian Michaels. Her comments on glyphosate were given at Sen. Ron Johnson's Roundtable, “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion,” on September 23, 2024.
00:00. Miss Swan is a nutritionist a real food activist and founder of the popular platform Real Foodology she advocates for transparency in the food industry promoting the importance of Whole Foods and clean eating Courtney is passionate about educating the public on the benefits of a nutrient-dense diet and she encourages sustainable chemical free farming practices to ensure better health for people on the planet. Miss Swan.
00:27. My name is Courtney Swan. I have a master's of science in nutrition and I host the Real Foodology podcast, and thank you so much for listening to me, to us today.
Our food is being tainted by dangerous chemicals and it's making us sick in 2009 I started to get debilitating stomach aches I bounced around between specialist with no Clarity for 2 years until 2011 when I was diagnosed with a gluten intolerance I was also at the time told to avoid corn and soy which are common food sensitivities amongst my generation unfortunately my story is not unique clueless to how this was connected to our food system I started to do some digging what I found was alarming. Our current agriculture system origin story involves large chemical companies; not farmers, chemists. 85% of the food that you are consuming started from a patented seed sold by a chemical corporation that was responsible for creating Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. Why are chemical companies feeding America? Corn, soy, and wheat are not only the most common allergens but are among the most heavily pesticide-sprayed crops today. In 1974, the US started spraying our crops with an herbicide called glyphosate and in the early 1990s we began to see the release of genetically modified foods into our food supply. It all seems to begin with a chemical company by the name of IG Farben. The later parent company of Bayer, IG Farben provided the chemicals used in Nazi nerve agents in gas chambers. Years later, a second chemical company, Monsanto, joined the War Industry with a production of Agent Orange, a toxin used during the Vietnam War. When the wars ended, these companies needed a market for their chemicals, so they pivoted to killing bugs and pests on American farmlands. Monsanto began marketing glyphosate with catchy name like Roundup. They claimed that these chemicals "were harmless and that they safeguarded our crops from pests." So farmers started spraying the supposedly safe chemicals on our farmland they solve the bug problem but they also killed the crops.
[Why didn't the farmers realize this and STOP USING ROUNDUP?!!!!]
Monsanto offered a solution with the creation of genetically modified, otherwise known as GMO crops that resisted the glyphosate in the Roundup. that they were spraying. These Roundup Ready crops allowed Farmers to spray entire fields with glyphosate to kill off pests without harming the plants, but our food is left covered in toxic chemical residue that doesn't wash, dry, or cook off. Not only is it sprayed to kill pests, but in the final stages of harvest it is sprayed on the wheat to dry it out, grains that go into bread and cereals that are in grocery stores and homes of Americans are heavily sprayed with these toxins. It's also being sprayed on oats, chickpeas, almonds, potatoes, and more
