Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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And people often like put this also all on presidents.
Congress, in fact, most of it I think happens in Congress because that's more anonymous than the White House.
And so Monsanto has been, I mean, there's no shortage of the things that Monsanto does that whether it's crop monocultures, whether it's the way that they take over our systems of big ag,
And glyphosate, or Roundup, is one of the biggest scandals of our time.
You also have PFAS, too, which was also other companies, right?
And you have DuPont, 3M, Monsanto.
Monsanto was purchased by Bayer.
And so here's what's going on, is that Roundup has been connected to a lot of cancer.
in this country, specifically non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
And farmers and lots of people that have been exposed to Roundup, many of whom who have developed this, have been suing Monsanto.
And Monsanto has been settling and settling and settling with people across the country trying to keep this quiet, but also being held liable for this.
Now, this is one of the biggest multinational corporations in the world.
But at this point, they had paid out, I think, over a billion dollars in damages and counting.
So now Monsanto says, we got to stop this.
And we also got to increase Roundup.
We still want to sell more of it.
And we have to stop people from suing us.
So last year, the CEO of Bayer...
the vice president of Bayer, which owns Monsanto, and a lobbyist for Bayer, had a meeting with Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the EPA.