English transcript

In 2006, they discovered that Roundup was a

desiccant. So that—and what that means, if you

spray it on a crop, it will actually dry out

the crop. And one of the big enemies of the

farmer is that if there's rain around the time

of harvest, their crops can get wet and then

they get moldy and then it ruins the entire

silo. Yeah. And so what, um, what Monsanto did

is they began telling farmers, spray this on

the crop, on your wheat, right before harvest

or at the time of harvest. Yeah. And it was

so popular that about 85% of the Roundup that

has been used in history... ...has been used

since 2006. Wow. And a large part of that is

as a desiccant. And what that meant, Mark, is

for the first time, they're spraying it on food.

Yeah. Right at harvest. Yeah. Not early in the

season when it may have a chance to wash off,

but actually just before you're gonna eat it.

Right. And they're spraying it for the first

time on wheat, 'cause there was no such thing

as Roundup Ready wheat. They started spraying

it on wheat as a desiccant. And so 2006 marks

the date when suddenly these gluten allergies

began exploding, and celiac disease and all

these kind of wheat problems that we started

seeing in this country. If you measure back

and say, "When did it start?", you can look

and draw a red line, Yeah. and it's 2006, and

it's the year that they began spraying it on

wheat.