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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And people often like put this also all on presidents.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Congress, in fact, most of it I think happens in Congress because that's more anonymous than the White House.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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,

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And glyphosate, or Roundup, is one of the biggest scandals of our time.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

You also have PFAS, too, which was also other companies, right?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And you have DuPont, 3M, Monsanto.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Monsanto was purchased by Bayer.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And so here's what's going on, is that Roundup has been connected to a lot of cancer.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

in this country, specifically non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And farmers and lots of people that have been exposed to Roundup, many of whom who have developed this, have been suing Monsanto.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Now, this is one of the biggest multinational corporations in the world.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

But at this point, they had paid out, I think, over a billion dollars in damages and counting.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

So now Monsanto says, we got to stop this.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And we also got to increase Roundup.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We still want to sell more of it.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And we have to stop people from suing us.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

So last year, the CEO of Bayer...

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

the vice president of Bayer, which owns Monsanto, and a lobbyist for Bayer, had a meeting with Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the EPA.