Zach Lahn

And this is something that really infuriated me as I dug deep into this.

When you look at tolerance levels that are allowed in food products, you think that when you hear this, it's like, okay, well, if in wheat, five parts per million are allowed in wheat,

you think, okay, well, that must be a level that's been deemed to be, like, safe, because if you have more than that, you can actually be illegal to sell the product.

You can't sell it.

It's been considered adulterated.

And so I was looking into this, and what I found out was this.

That level...

can be changed by the industry if they petition the EPA.

So for instance, in the 1990s, the allowable level of glyphosate on oats was 0.1 parts per million.

When the industry started moving to desiccation, spraying this product to kill the plant at the end of the growing cycle,

When they started to change the desiccation, they lobbied the EPA to change how much is allowed on oats.

And remember, if you had over 0.1 parts per million in the 90s, it was illegal to sell the product of oats.

They lobbied and got a 20,000% increase.

Holy shit.

200 times what was previously allowed was now allowed, and here's why.

Because that's what they needed to be able to use the product to spray at the end of the growing cycle.

So they went and said, what do we need this to be allowed at?

How much glyphosate is actually on the product after we do this desiccation process?

And that's what we need to petition the EPA to get.

And Monsanto did that.