Courtney Swan
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4 Feb
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Yeah, I mean, it's wild. I never thought I would find myself here. I mean, I was in school. So in 2011, I was getting my master's of science in nutrition. And around that time, I was finding the works of people like Vani Hari. We just brought her up, the food babe, Dr. Mark Hyman, Michael Pollan.
And they were really trying to sound the alarm back then about what was happening with our food system. But largely, it was being ignored, especially by our media and by our So I got very involved in it back then because I felt like the American people needed to know what was happening with their food. You know, we were blindly being poisoned.
And even though when you feel like you're maybe making the right choices and making healthy choices, if you don't know how to navigate all this, like chances are you may not be. So I was so passionate about this. And then fast forward, I just ended up in this Maha movement. But I've been doing this for about 15 years now. Like this isn't a trend thing that I've just been jumping onto.
And I said this earlier that I have been following Bobby's work for about 10 years now. I love him. He's an environmental environmental lawyer. He also was on the litigation team against Monsanto. It was a guy that was spraying on. Yes, exactly. The groundskeeper. And he got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. And Bobby was very famously on that litigation team.
And this is something that I'm incredibly passionate about that we can talk more about. The glyphosate thing is a really big issue. So watching that confirmation today and seeing these senators just rip into him and knowing that this man... is taking bullets right now for the American people because he genuinely cares. He also said this. He said, I don't need to be here. I have a happy life.
I have a happy family. I'm not getting anything out of this. He's like, it's not like I'm getting a significant amount of money in this position. He's doing this because he cares, because he thinks that we need a reform in our healthcare system. And so seeing this pushback, and then you look...
I have been going hard on this online today, but if you look at all the senators that are pushing back on him and they're making millions of dollars off of pharmaceutical companies and that's the whole reason they're going after him because they're all scared that it's going to be exposed.
Yeah.
So I've kind of been going back and forth on this all day. I'm not really entirely sure. I think I have a lot of faith that he is going to get in there because I ultimately believe that the light outshines the dark. And I think we're dealing with a lot of darkness right now with the pharmaceutical companies that are that have overpowered the conversation in the media for a very long time.
And I think enough people are waking up to it. I've also seen Twitter just absolutely exploding today with people just making all the connections with, oh, this senator was going hard after him because look at all these payments that they've been getting from X, Y, and Z pharmaceutical companies. So I think
People are definitely waking up to it, and I'm hoping that these senators are feeling the pressure. The last couple days I've been urging everyone that is in my community to call their senators and put pressure on them to vote him in.
And I've gotten several messages back from people saying, oh, my God, they just said that their phone lines have been ringing off the hook all day and that this is all people are calling in about right now. People really care about this.
Same as you mentioned earlier, I went to Capitol Hill to the Senate for a nutrition roundtable that was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson, who was there today back in September.
It's absolutely surreal.
So my specific presentation, my speech was all about glyphosate. This is something I'm incredibly passionate about, about the way that we're farming right now, big ag and these big agrochemical companies that own the majority of our food system right now, specifically Bayer. Bayer bought Monsanto back in 2018, and Monsanto is largely responsible for GMOs that have been put into our food system.
And they also own something called Roundup, which is also known as glyphosate, which is an herbicide that is widely being sprayed on our food system right now. Back in 2017, 16, they estimated that we were spraying 287 million pounds of glyphosate a year on our farmland. And it's projected that it's much higher than that now. So I presented to the Senate. I was incredibly concerned about this.
We're seeing rates of cancer go through the roof. And then you look at what's happening in the courts right now with Monsanto Bayer. They're getting destroyed. They've paid over $2 billion to people that have gotten non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from using glyphosate, from using their products.
It's nuts. And then you want to know how insidious this is and full circle it is? So these farmers are spraying glyphosate, which is owned by Bayer, on their farmlands. And then when they get cancer from it, they're given chemo drugs that are also created by the same company, Bayer.
Dwayne Lee Johnson. Yes. So that was a really famous case because I believe he was the first one that put it on the map. He set the precedence for the rest of it. And Bobby was a part of that litigation team. And so I've been following his work for a long time.
And I can see how much he cares about the American people and his whole message and what he's been trying to get out to people is these corporations are poisoning us and our government. And we have policies in place that are allowing these corporations to get away with it. And he's just sitting up here now in front of the American people saying, I want to change this.
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