If you only ever listen to one episode of this podcast, this should be it, especially given President Trump just signed an executive order hours ago intended to increase US production of an herbicide called glyphosate.
Given the fact that so many US farmers rely heavily on the chemical, the complex reasoning behind the executive order is equal parts disappointing and well-intentioned - so much so that health freedom advocate and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. felt he even needed to weigh in on it.
Either way, it’s timely given I recorded this week’s interview with Chris Bihn weeks ago, after personally witnessing a massive billboard campaign across Ohio’s agricultural regions urging farmers to continue using glyphosate on their crops… even as growing numbers of consumers have been begging for less potentially harmful methods of growing our food.
In today’s episode, Chris - whose family has been farming for generations - shares some astounding information on the herbicide, ranging from how glyphosate works to its ties to GMO produce, why farmers became so reliant on it in the first place and how glyphosate even shows up in rainfall at the tops of undeveloped mountains. He also discusses glyphosate’s potential ties to massive rates of cancer in Ohio’s biggest agricultural regions and three new, even more toxic chemicals that are being used on food in place of glyphosate without consumers having any idea.
Chris also discusses all the ways his family’s business, His Saving Grains, uses to avoid the chemical at all costs (his son Nate came on the podcast to discuss the company’s methods and products - from grains like crushed corn, wheat and flax to pastas and bread - in an episode last year).
If you take great care about the food you put into your body, it’s an episode you won’t want to miss.
