Zach Lahn

This stuff is written far too specifically.

It's coming from industry.

And that's the cozy relationship.

I guess something that surprised me being in this maybe more than anything, I don't know if more than anything, but it's a big surprise, is how little research you have to do to become a very informed politician.

Like, at the top 1%.

How much you have to care to get away from the talking points of one party or the other

and do your own research.

Some of the things we're gonna talk about with glyphosate... You know, I can't believe that they're just not on billboards everywhere.

I mean, it's so egregious of what's happened.

But when I... Let me go into this a little bit.

When I first was talking about these pesticides, I've been following glyphosate for years.

Part of the reason was my dad was a 28-year crop consultant in Iowa.

And so his job was to go into a field, inspect for pests, weeds, bugs, fungus, things like that, and then write a report and send it to the farmer to say, here's what you should apply, what chemicals you should apply, because that's just what they do, what they did.

And then you fast forward to about five, six years ago, my dad gets diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the exact type of cancer that's implicated in all of these Roundup lawsuits.

And so I'm looking at this from the standpoint of like, and I think you could probably tell already talking to me, like, well, I hope... I care about this stuff.

Like, I really do.

And so when I'm thinking about my own dad, it's like, how much did that shorten his lifespan?

He's in remission, but how many fewer days do I get with my dad?

And the amount of funerals that I see for people that are dying in their 60s when their parents lived to be 80,

there's a generational wisdom that's being completely lost.