Casey Means

I am very gravely concerned about the health impacts of these chemicals.

Our food system is dependent currently on these chemicals.

There is a good faith movement towards moving our food system towards regenerative agriculture and precision application of pesticides.

I believe in good faith that is happening within this administration.

I do also believe that we must do that for human health.

I think there's grave issues with these chemicals.

I think that we are in a very complicated moment for agriculture and food.

We cannot overturn the entire agriculture system overnight.

That would hurt farmers.

It would hurt food prices.

This is a national security decision.

And as a physician and as a surgeon in general, my focus would be on making sure that we are protecting American consumers and their health and making sure that we are having transparent, honest conversations about these things.

I am not in any way backing away from this issue.

It is a core passion of my life.

It sounds like you have a lot to say about this issue, and I would be very interested to see how your staff looked at this data.

I have a strong feeling that the way in which they gather this data is done intentionally to create these claims that you're making.

I don't think that's true.

And if it has happened, if it inadvertently has happened, I would rectify that immediately.

However, I would be interested to see how your staff gathered this data.

I take conflicts of interest incredibly seriously.