Impact of Roundup on Wheat and Health

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, and 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-

Yeah

... of harvest."

And

it was so popular

that about 85% of Roundup that has been used in

history has been used since 2006.

Wow.

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.

And for the first time-

Not early in the season when-

Right

... 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.

Yeah.

They started spraying it on wheat as a desiccant.

A- a- and so 2006 marks the date

when suddenly these gluten allergies began exploding.

Interesting.

And celiac disease and all these kind of wheat problems-

Oh

... that we started seeing in this country.

Yeah.

If you measure back and say, "When did it start?" You can look

and draw a red

line at, that's 2006, and it's the year that they began

spraying it on wheat.