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Courtney Swan

👤 Speaker
2012 total appearances

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

with profits in mind because they want it to be shelf stable so that it can stay on the shelf for long periods of time. I was doing this little personal experiment at my house, still kind of ongoing, and I've released two videos about this already, but I bought just a bunch of conventional bread, loaves of bread from the grocery store in December. I got Sara Lee and some other like-

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

with profits in mind because they want it to be shelf stable so that it can stay on the shelf for long periods of time. I was doing this little personal experiment at my house, still kind of ongoing, and I've released two videos about this already, but I bought just a bunch of conventional bread, loaves of bread from the grocery store in December. I got Sara Lee and some other like-

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

with profits in mind because they want it to be shelf stable so that it can stay on the shelf for long periods of time. I was doing this little personal experiment at my house, still kind of ongoing, and I've released two videos about this already, but I bought just a bunch of conventional bread, loaves of bread from the grocery store in December. I got Sara Lee and some other like-

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

It's almost April. Those bags have been open. They've just been open, sitting on my counter since December, and there is not a drop of mold on any single one of them.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

It's almost April. Those bags have been open. They've just been open, sitting on my counter since December, and there is not a drop of mold on any single one of them.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

It's almost April. Those bags have been open. They've just been open, sitting on my counter since December, and there is not a drop of mold on any single one of them.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Nothing. They smell quote-unquote fresh. Wow. Like it's still squishy. It's not dry.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Nothing. They smell quote-unquote fresh. Wow. Like it's still squishy. It's not dry.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Nothing. They smell quote-unquote fresh. Wow. Like it's still squishy. It's not dry.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yes.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yes.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yes.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yep.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yep.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

Yep.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

So glyphosate, well, first of all, the reason I'm most concerned about it is because it's become so ubiquitous. So we're spraying it on all of our fields. The back story of glyphosate is they were using a lot of these chemicals in World War II. Nazis were using them as nerve agents in gas chambers. They weren't using glyphosate specifically, but they were using known insecticides and pesticides.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

So glyphosate, well, first of all, the reason I'm most concerned about it is because it's become so ubiquitous. So we're spraying it on all of our fields. The back story of glyphosate is they were using a lot of these chemicals in World War II. Nazis were using them as nerve agents in gas chambers. They weren't using glyphosate specifically, but they were using known insecticides and pesticides.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

So glyphosate, well, first of all, the reason I'm most concerned about it is because it's become so ubiquitous. So we're spraying it on all of our fields. The back story of glyphosate is they were using a lot of these chemicals in World War II. Nazis were using them as nerve agents in gas chambers. They weren't using glyphosate specifically, but they were using known insecticides and pesticides.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And they have similar chemical components to glyphosate. And then same with the Vietnam War. Agent Orange was created by Monsanto. So now, fast forward, these agrochemical companies need somewhere to use their chemicals and their fertilizers. And so they pivoted to spraying them on farmlands. And what happened initially is they said, oh, they're totally fine.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
171. Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful

And they have similar chemical components to glyphosate. And then same with the Vietnam War. Agent Orange was created by Monsanto. So now, fast forward, these agrochemical companies need somewhere to use their chemicals and their fertilizers. And so they pivoted to spraying them on farmlands. And what happened initially is they said, oh, they're totally fine.