Thomas Massey

Let me tell you a use I would never use.

So I don't do it, but I would spray fence lines with it.

If you had a respirator and something like that to kill weeds in the fence line, I would not spray my fields with it because I'm afraid that the residue from that might be taken up into me.

um i would not tell my neighbor you can't kill the weeds so that you can do no-till farming of uh your corn okay but here's one place where i would never ever use it and i don't think it should be legal they spray it on ripe wheat to dry it out before they harvest it like this is the food you're going to eat it's like the next step is to grind it and bake it into bread

And they are just one step away from you eating it.

And they're spraying it with glyphosate, the whole plant, so that it will die quickly and dry out quickly and save them some money.

Maybe they can get the next crop in there four days earlier into that land.

And by the way, that's been banned in Europe.

but not here in the United States.

And they say, oh, Congressman Massey, this is only used on 3% of the wheat crops in the United States.

First of all, I don't believe that.

But if it is true, then why don't we just grow something else there in that 3% where it's too wet to grow wheat?

Why don't we grow soybeans or something instead of wheat at that place or something you don't need glyphosate to dry it out with?

Or maybe you'll get 80 or 90% of the yield you would have gotten if you hadn't sprayed poison on it to dry it out quickly.

That's disgusting.

So I do think there are areas where I wouldn't ban it, and I wouldn't tell my neighbors you can't use it, but the company needs to have the right label on it.

And if they know there are, if we know scientifically that it can cause harm, that needs to be disclosed so that the farmers who are using it, I think it's a threat to the farmers more so than the consumers.

So this is probably my biggest issue.

And people want to know why food's so expensive.

Why is housing so expensive?