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Courtney Swan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2012 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

It's absolutely surreal.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

It's absolutely surreal.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

It's absolutely surreal.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.

Dhru Purohit Show
Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan

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.