Felicia: So glyphosate. Yeah. We're gonna talk about this again, specifically about the landmark Supreme Court ruling, where basically it is stated that Bayer, who bought Monsanto, who is the creator and company responsible for Roundup AKA glyphosate, ⁓ their recent Supreme Court decision has basically completely reversed. Things that have been going through the states and in essence saying that Bayer slash Monsanto can no longer be sued based on claims that people are getting cancer from using their product Roundup. Again, glyphosate. And this has been we just we need to talk about it. We're gonna talk about it today. And we're gonna talk about it if you're wondering like why, why, what does this matter? It it is because we'll we'll talk about all that because it is applicable to what we talk about here on grains and grit. Which is all about bread and wheat and the myths surrounding grains and all of that stuff. And one of the biggest reasons people state why you should be avoiding wheat is because it's always sprayed with glyphosate. So therefore we're gonna talk about it and like all the things, how this can possibly impact us, so on and so forth. And I'll go ahead and tell you that this one's gonna be a little, it's just ⁓ I may offend you. ⁓ I'll go ahead and say that. I may offend some people. But that's what we do here in essence on the Grains and Grit Extra Gritty podcast, because this is the podcast of the YouTube channel Grains and Grit, where it is unedited, unfiltered. ⁓ like we're just gonna be talking. We're gonna have a chat. ⁓ grab your coffee like I have right here, and we are going to talk about this because I have a lot of thoughts. In regards to this recent decision, a lot of people are talking about it online. And people have been asking me if I'm gonna be addressing it. You bet your bottom dollar, I'm going to be addressing this. And so that's what we're gonna be talking about today and covering many, many things about this. So, first of all, coffee break. Okay, so with that, fueled by coffee, we're gonna discuss this because I will go ahead and tell you up front ⁓ and why I may offend you is first of all, I am angry about this. I am angry in so many different ways that will be apparent throughout this podcast. And I have every right to be angry about this type of decision. You should be angry if you are not. There's nothing wrong with being angry because I know some people will come back like, ⁓ Felicia, you just you just really need to stop being so angry. No, ⁓ there are certain things that we should be angry about. Okay. It's okay to be angry. Don't sin in your anger, but it is okay to be angry. And I'm fired up about this, y'all. I'm angry. I'm fired up in a lot of different ways. I also may offend you because I'm going to mention the T word, Trump. And usually just because I say the word Trump, people get upset. For various reasons they get upset, but like dare I mention and acknowledge that we have a government in this country and people get upset about it. So first and foremost, I'm gonna be blatantly and brutally honest about all of this, about the whole thing with glyphosate, who's involved, ⁓ you know, the history of it, all of that stuff. And just know that my opinions do not change. All of this does not change. The facts do not change, my opinion does not change based on who's in the White House. So I would be saying the same things if it was, you know, Trump. Bush, Biden, Obama, your mama, whoever is in the White House, it doesn't matter. Okay. So people may be offended whenever I point out that this stuff is happening during the Trump administration. People are gonna get offended about it because they always do. But just know that if you get offended that I'm saying these hearth truths, these these harsh truths, ⁓ just know that they are fact. And if you get upset about that, just because I do make a statement that this happened during a Trump administration. You may need to check yourself that you might have an idol in your life. So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna leave that there. Okay. ⁓ because we should be looking at this objectively, regard regardless of who is in office, who has the majority in Congress, who has a majority in Supreme Court, it doesn't matter. We need to be looking at this stuff objectively. So now that that long disclaimer, I feel like, is passed. ⁓ if you're still with me, great, buckle up. Okay, so what has happened? Now I will be pulling up some notes. Usually I don't really have many notes for this podcast, but I do have some to make sure that I remember certain things. So in case you've been living under a rock, not being on social media or the news or anything like that, what has happened is this is of Thursday, June 25th. ⁓ so by the time this podcast comes out, it probably will be like a little over a week or so since this happened. So June 25th, the Supreme Court in a seven two decision. ⁓ said that Bayer cannot be sued over claims that the company failed to warn of cancer risk from its Wee Killer Roundup and its chemical glyphosate. So back, back, back, back it up a little bit. ⁓ since glyphosate has come around, it's been around for quite a while now, like what, 40 years? I think it was like the 70s, ⁓ that it started to be using. So to give you a quick brief, super crazy brief nutshell in case you do not know. So the reason why glyphosate is a big deal now is because we now have genetically modified crops. So first of all, you may be familiar with Roundup. If you have weeds, so if you've ever bought Roundup, say to kill poison ivy, or you know, ⁓ maybe you are alignment or someone were for the power company, and you may see whenever they spray along electric power lines and it all goes brown, most likely they're using Roundup, aka glyphosate. I mean, the main ingredient is. Glyphosate, so you may know know know it and bought it under Roundup. And that was first created and marketed by Monsanto. And it definitely became around in the 90s when we started having genetically modified crops because then we had Roundup Ready soybeans. So this is the GMO soybean crop, and it's called Roundup Ready because it was developed by Monsanto in order to resist its Roundup weed killer. So they could spray. Roundup on these soybeans and the soybeans not die, but like the bugs and all the weeds do die. So red flag that a plant is able to resist this type of pesticide, but that's a whole other story. So that's why it's become more prevalent and popular. It just became a very ⁓ popular weed killer because it does kill. Like Roundup, it does kill. You put it on anything, it's gonna kill it. Okay. ⁓ but so people we've now had decades. Using this. And now, decades later, we are now starting to see the effects of this. And people are making claims that it has caused cancer. And there have been lawsuits with this. A big one. ⁓ the reason why the Supreme Court ruled on this is this is based on a 2018 lawsuit. ⁓ from ⁓ let me see, it was John Durnell. Said his cancer specifically non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is like the specific cancer that it's usually is it non-Hodgkins or Hodgkin's lymphoma? It's one of those that's like the specific cancer it's been linked to. And in 2019, a Missouri, so you may have heard of this back in 2019 because it was a huge win. A Missouri jury in 2019 awarded more than a million dollars to John Durnell after the court found that Bayer. Had failed to warn of cancer risk. Okay, so I need to back that up really quick. Forgot to in the history mention. So Monsanto was the one who created and sold Roundup glyphosate. And then all these lawsuits started happening, like in 2018, things like that. And that's when they actually sold. ⁓ they are now owned by Bayer. So we actually no longer have Monsanto in essence. It is now Bayer. So that so Bayer is now being brought, but they still have Roundup, they have glyphosate, it's just now under the Bayer name. Instead of Monsanto. So still there. I don't think they made any changes, as far as I know. So I'm gonna be saying Bayer because in the lawsuits, ⁓ Bayer is who they were suing. And so in 2019, a Missouri jury jury awarded this man a million dollars. The Missouri Appeals Court then affirmed the judgment. And now it was up to the Supreme Court. And that's what happened June 25th of this year, 2026. The Supreme Court reversed it. They completely reversed it. And here's one thing that ⁓ so Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote from the majority. So he argued that because the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, deems glyphosate safe when used properly and has not required a cancer warning label. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodentcide Act preempts state-level failure to warn claims. ⁓ so Quoting him specifically, he said with respect to pesticide labels, FIFRA, I assume the federal ancestide fungicide versus anyway, demands uniformity and expressly preempts state labeling requirements that are in addition to or different from federal labeling requirements. And as a matter of law, state tort law may not impose labeling requirements in addition to or different from federal requirements imposed under FIFRA or FIFRA. Do they say FIFA? I don't know. Okay, so bottom line, bottom line, ⁓ basically what they said is, well, the EPA says it's safe. So you cannot say it's not. So states can now not come in because a federal agency has deemed that it is safe. A state cannot come in and say, actually, no, it's not safe. We do need to put labels on this and allow these lawsuits to happen. So this is a ⁓ this is a whole different political ballgame. ⁓ between this federal and state level I can hear our forefathers freaking out about all this. And if you know, you know I'm not gonna go into the politics of the federal and state levels, how our country used to be, not anymore. That's that's a different podcast and not for the channel. I'm gonna focus. Focus, Felicia. Okay. So bottom line, this was a huge, huge blow because basically it has eliminated with the Supreme Court decision like this, that pretty much eliminates These all of these lawsuits, this man is not gonna get Bayer doesn't have to pay this million dollars that this man won because the Supreme Court, the Supreme Law of this land, has now declared nope, you can't sue them. Period. And so that is the big broo haha. Is now we are no longer able to hold these chemical companies responsible when their chemicals cause issues. Now. One thing I recently watched was Joel Salatin's response to this. Let me see if, excuse me, if I can find that video. ⁓ I'll be able to find it. But Joel Salatin, love Joel Salatin. And if you don't know who he is, you need to. The Lunatic Farmer, Christian, Libertarian, Conservatives Farmer, I love him so much. ⁓ and he recently did a video. ⁓ let me see, Joel Salatin. I'm looking up on my computer right now. So for those who aren't watching on video, ⁓ wondering what I'm doing. Okay, yeah, it is. Is Trump's glyphosate order good or bad? Joel Salatin answers. This is three days three days ago, or so it's fresh, it's new. It's on his farm like a lunatic with Joel Salatin channel. I will try to remember to link it in the show notes, but he I do recommend watching it. 23 minute video. He made some excellent, excellent points to this. So, first of all, you have to understand that how why the EPA even states that glyphosate is safe. Is whenever this was up to ⁓ to for the EPA to determine the labeling, like can we is this actually a safe chemical to use? Just like things with the FDA, how what that comes from is the EPA themselves do not do tests. The company that is trying to profit off of a product does test and research, and then they present it to the EPA, and the EPA can look at them be like, Yeah, that looks good. Like, what is the point of you? Okay. Sure. No, no, I'm sure. I'm sure a multi-million dollar company where there are millions and millions and millions of dollars on the line. I'm pretty certain they will be completely honest and not want to buy bias their findings in the slightest. What what could possibly go wrong? And so that's first of all how they have they have they don't have the label that this is cancer causing is because the EPA says they don't have to. Fantastic. ⁓ contrast to the fact that the World Health Organization, I want to say this was back in 2015. I'm trying to find my notes here because the World Health Organization actually did state that it there is a chance that it does link to cancer. But one thing I want to point out that Joel Salatin mentioned in his video is yeah, ⁓ at the time. So let's pretend that Monsanto was 100% honest, like God-fearing people here who would never lie about anything. So let's pretend we live in that delusional reality and let's give him the benefit of the doubt. ⁓ so yeah, maybe when they were studying it, no cancer was happening. Okay, people weren't getting cancer. It is safe. Except one thing that Joe Salatin pointed out is that it can sometimes take decades for us to actually see the results of using this. Like, okay. We're using we are now dousing our soil and our crops with glyphosate. What does that look like 10, 20, 30 years down the line? 40 years down the line. We're now down the line. Okay. And we're now seeing it. ⁓ and so that's the infuriating thing about this is like they're over here, like, no, it doesn't call cancer. Well, are we actually doing new research? And that's the thing, is people are. People are doing their independent research. And that's how these lawsuits were able able to be won is because people are doing ⁓ these independent lawsuits. And so yeah, so you have that thing right there. First of all, it's not fair to just stick our heads in the sand and be like, well, they did research and it said it doesn't, there is no link to cancer. Well, what about now? What about someone who's been using it for 20 years? What about someone who, you know, these migrant farm workers, for example, who are in the fields, you know, working. alongside of this, like when the fields have been just sprayed, like anyone following up with them, like all of these cases. ⁓ recently I did actually in lieu of since this came out, I actually recently saw a post. This was like incredible. And I have to share it. Again, this is grains and great extra gritty. So we kind of we kind of go off the rabbit trails here. So I'm just gonna find it because I want to say it was by I know it was Trim Healthy Mama. But it was Serena Pyrrhic. There it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you follow them on Instagram, they did post this probably on their Facebook as well. But I followed Trim Healthy Mama and they shared a story of, I think it was Serena's son, where ⁓ her healthy young son, 18 years old, 18 years old, six foot five, big guy. ⁓ he got cancer within a matter of weeks because he was. ⁓ using glyphosate. ⁓ I read the you gotta read both stories. They have two stories. One is the original where they talked about it. And then the second one was like clarifying because they got pinged by daring to say that glyphosate causes cancer. So he she they stated, let me, I'm trying to find it here. So he took a job spraying under power line. So like I said, that's a big place that it's used for. And then one morning with the weed killer strapped to his back. So he had one of those packs and I guess just spraying it. And one one day it unfortunately ⁓ he jumped over a fence and the glyphosate tipped and actually poured over his neck and his shoulders. And I will try to post this up here again. This is the Trim Healthy Mama's Instagram. And all that he could do at that time was he rinsed it with his water bottle, but couldn't shower until that night. And then just a few weeks later, like weeks later, he stopped sleeping, night sweats, sore throat, weight loss, all of this stuff. And he was told he had cancer. And his oncologist called it the worst case he'd ever seen. The tumors on his neck and shoulders, right where the glyphosate spilled, grew so large they opened, they almost took over his face. First stage to four in to okay, it went from first stage cancer to fourth stage in just months. And then it took him seven years of absolute hell to get out of this. ⁓ he even he even became chemo resistant. ⁓ like it was just bad. They went seven through seven years of this. And it's really a slap in the face to people like this who went through I can't imagine as a mama, like seeing your healthy, vibrant 18 year old son go through something like this. I I cannot imagine. I mean, I I've seen it with my husband since he was shot and paralyzed. ⁓ his const he's getting stronger and his constitution is much better than what it was at first. And but he's a man, not my son. Like he's my husband, not my son. It was still hard, but like. And it's been hard. ⁓ but I can't imagine it being my son and something like this life-threatening. Like this is insane. So here he gets glyphosate spilt on his skin. ⁓ but coincidence, pure coincidence that only a few months later, ⁓ he has all these tumors and this rapid growing cancer that's happening. And one thing that I think I get the impression that they were flagged about. was because they were stating that, ⁓ well, this type of cancer isn't fast. Like there's there's no way this would have come the you know this is from glyphosate because it was so fast. I'm sorry, but like I think anyone who's wanting to be honest, that was a that was an incredible coincidence. Okay. This was a bad, bad cancer. And the fact that all of these tumors were growing right where it fell, like I'm sorry. Sorry. So again, this is that was such a rabbit trail. But I wanted to share with y'all that y'all have to ⁓ you you you really need to go read those posts. That's again Trim Healthy Mama. ⁓ they had two posts. You'll on Instagram, you'll see him. ⁓ a picture of, I mean, you'll you'll know, you'll know when it was like ⁓ good looking guy, 18 years old, you know, like before and after type thing. So and then him with his mama, his pretty, beautiful mama. So this is again such a slap in the face, and there's only How many more people are out there with those stories? And they're being silenced because God forbid you actually state that glyphosate causes cancer. Like people get flagged, their posts get flagged. Like this is not a legal claim. ⁓ even though it's like again, again, this is the messed up system. This is how messed up of a system we have, is because I mean, just the money that is involved. I mean, there's okay, I'm gonna try to back up. Okay. There's just so again, there's so much to this. There's so much in my brain. But the biggest thing is that this was a huge betrayal to Maha. Okay. The Make America Healthy Again. So, again, if you've been living under a rock, ⁓ this ⁓ this last Trump campaign, President Trump's campaign was different than his first, in that we now had the big Maha movement. MAGA was still there. Make America great again. That was still there, but now. We have this other movement, Maha. That was when he brought RFK Junior online. And that's whenever I was like, okay, okay, there is potential here. There's excitement here. I have a list. Okay. There's a list. Because we also, I mean, because this was good. This was good that we were wanting to make America, America healthy again, because I think we're all aware of big pharma. ⁓ the fact that people are sick. We are sick. I mean, that's why I talk about on this channel about where I how I can just focus on grains is because wheat alone, okay, the fact that people have been consuming fake enriched wheat all their life alone has been causing health issues and just changing the bread, just switching to milling your own grains and having bread and grains the way that God intended, how life-changing that is for people. So the country, I think so many people were already waking up. To the fact that so many of our diseases and health issues are lifestyle and food related. So when, you know, and then you know, with Maha, you're bringing in a lot of people, especially moms, especially moms coming together. You have the vaccine issues, you know, autism, ⁓ you know, the healthy eating, the healthy living, like all of these people. And frankly, if I was to sum up Maha, there are like two issues, okay. That are probably at the forefront, and that was vaccines and glyphosate. And you know, I say vaccines, doesn't matter which side that you're on, but the bottom line is I think whether ⁓ vaccines was a huge issue, more like let us choose, you know, let us as parents make those decisions for our children, don't force us to take vaccines, don't mandate vaccines, you know, all that stuff. And then the glyphosate was a huge issue. Again, it's one of the biggest myths that I Kind kind of myths I should say that I deal with on this channel is ⁓ we should avoid wheat because it's all sprayed with glyphosate. And that is not true. ⁓ less wheat than you think is sprayed with glyphosate, but it is used, but it is less than 30% of wheat in the US that is sprayed with glyphosate. And you can avoid that by milling yourself, buying directly from a farmer that you know, biorganic, all that stuff. That's a rabbit trail. So, but that's kind of one of the big reasons people say to avoid wheat is because of the glyphosate. And even here in Florida, ⁓ because that's where I'm at, my our first lady. ⁓ so Governor DeSantis is my governor and First Lady she recently did, like they have their own thing going. And they even recently did a study of like breads from the store and showing how high, shockingly, that they were testing for glyphosate, even the organic, like Dave's killer bread. And I did do a video all about that. It was quite surprising. So glyphosate, it's an issue. Okay. It is in our food. We now have these studies coming out where it can be linked. To cancer at the very least. Okay. At the very least, y'all. It is a synthetic man-made chemical. God did not create it. So we should automatically kind of hit a big question mark. Okay. Let's not immediately like, yay, let's just throw this on our food and we'll be fine. No, no, no. Let's ⁓ take a step back and be cautious about it and also question hmm, this thing is a powerful killer. Of plants. I mean, you ⁓ I don't know if y'all see it in the city. I don't know how they do it in the city, but here out in the country with the power lines, there will be times like you can tell when they have gone and they have sprayed the the trees and the plants and stuff ⁓ to kill it ⁓ under the power lines. I guess this is in lieu of having to get trucks out there to cut them down, they now spray it and all of that has actually gone brown. ⁓ that actually reminds me, something I completely forgot about until now. ⁓ even more so, we had to tell this was at our first homestead. And so we had less land back then. ⁓ and so they had to also come further onto our property to hit the power lines. And we had to tell them they're not allowed to spray glyphosate because we noticed now at the time, I'm only assuming it was Roundup. It probably is Roundup that they were using because that's pretty much the most common one that they use. But whatever they were using, we noticed. Okay, we see all of the dead plantation, you know, the dead ⁓ branches and and shrubs and things like that. Okay, they clearly sprayed. And then soon after that, we started losing livestock because we were free ranging our chickens and like that. I had ⁓ like four or five chickens that just dropped dead. And we just kind of looked at us like, you know, ⁓ they're free ranging and they were out spraying and and they would go down the driveway a bit and and things like that. So We had to tell the power company, like, look, you can't spray, you have to tell us. Okay. Or at the very least, you need to tell us because we need to keep our chickens locked up. Because it was our chickens and like they were not predators. I know what it looks like when a chicken ⁓ you know, is attacked. It's very obvious. It was not like that they were just dropping dead and they were healthy, they were the prime of their life, they were laying just fine. And that was just a correlation that we made. And so we, if we knew that they were coming, we just kept our chickens up because it was farther away. We just kept them up for a few weeks. So they weren't going there. Yeah, well, I completely forgot about that. So don't tell me that there's that Roundup is perfectly safe and it's not causing health issues. Y'all, it is. Okay. And everyone knows it. And I'm going to say it. And if I, you know, FDA, EPA, whatever wants to come after me about that, okay. But there's so many other there's so much research out there, independent research. Just because our EPA decides to be bought off and not actually put a label on it, for heaven's sakes, that doesn't make it safe. When did we think that just because the gov the government doesn't put You know, ⁓ well, the government says that it's safe, so it's totally fine. Really? Really? This is 2026, y'all. We have the internet, okay? You should not be thinking that. Okay. No one should be thinking that our government is flawless. Okay. No one should be thinking that Trump is a perfect man because he's still a man. No one should be thinking about that about RFK Jr. Or, you know, don't think that Joe Salatin is perfect or that I'm perfect. Like we're all human beings that are flawed. Okay. And no one should think that a government Actually, it has the best interest in every single person's case. Okay. That's not that's not the way it is anymore, y'all. This country is run by corporations, people who millions of dollars, big pharma. One thing, another thing that Joel Salatin put out in his video is that truth, some sort of group that is all about truth finding and you know, they do like the Freedom of Information Act, you know, the really Deep diving deep and stuff. And they showed, I want to say it was 40, it may be 20, but either way, it was wait, it's one more the higher than it should have been. I want to say we'll go with a smaller number. It may be higher though. But he said like 20 people surrounding the Trump administration closely, one of them being Susie Wiles, which is which was Trump's campaign manager of his last campaign, and he it's his current chief of staff, has been paid by Bayer. They've gotten money from Bayer, and then lo and behold. This administration, all these people surrounding Trump having all this money paid by Bayer. And then, like this, ⁓ look, not only was this the first blow against Maha concerning glyphosate, this was actually the second one. This Supreme Court decision is the second blow. The first one was the executive order that I talked about that came out at the beginning of the Iran war conflict, kerfuffle, whatever you want to call it, that we're having with Iran right now. But whenever that started. Trump issued an executive order demanding an increased production in glyphosate and phosphate for national security reasons. It's like we put things under national security and then boom, it's good. So this is the second blow ⁓ for Maha as far as glyphosate. And again, I'm going back because I said that this was such a huge issue. And frankly, I'm gonna say it. This is a huge betrayal to Maha. Major, major, major betrayal. Now. ⁓ you know, the Supreme Court, Trump does not or shouldn't be influencing the Supreme Court. However, ⁓ you know, he did make that executive order ⁓ to increase glyphosate. And it was even more betrayal that RFK Jr. backed him up on that. And that was horrible. Like this is horrible. And a third thing that Joel Salatin put out is, and I did a podcast about this when that executive order was issued, I did a podcast addressing this. Because I do understand that just like cold turkey cutoff glyphosate would be absolute crazy and a big, big issue because of the massive systems that we have now. But one thing that Joel Salatin actually pointed out that I hadn't quite thought about is he did mention that, yeah, ⁓ so Roundup Ready soybeans, like that's one of the number one crop that glyphosate is used on. Roundup ready soybeans. So dove, they're using Roundup. Number one crop. He said 50% of our soybeans actually go overseas. So you could literally stop using glyphosate today or tomorrow, you know, you could pretty much stop using it. And okay, so we dropped 50% in our soybean production, but that would be fine for feeding us, for feeding America. ⁓ we don't have to export our food. But as far because one of the the ⁓ blank arguments. One of the arguments that we need glyphosate is well, we can't feed ourselves without glyphosate. And so the fact that he said that like ⁓ half of the soybeans alone go overseas. So like as far as feeding the United States, that simply is not true. Okay. It's not, it's not just that. It is more to that. And so I found that very, very interesting ⁓ and an excellent point that he made. And so Yeah, this is a huge betrayal. And one one big question that I have, ⁓ I don't want to say fear because it's not like you know, I'm scared of it or I'm fearful of it because as a Christian, I should not live in fear, but concern that would be a good word, a huge concern I have is that this is gonna be another vaccine 1986 debacle, which if you don't know what happened back in 1986. As far as vaccines go, is during the Reagan administration. ⁓ in 1986, a landslide, excuse me. Sorry, I had a cough there. I'm muted. so in 1986, Reagan administration, a landslide. I want to say this is another Supreme Court decision. It's been a while since I looked at this. So I want to say it's Supreme Court, not legislation. And I assume Supreme Court because I think the pattern is the same. Where basically it was ruled that in 1986, vaccine manufacturers could no longer be held liable or responsible for any ⁓ adverse reactions to vaccines. So if your child or you ⁓ say came, you know, got autism from vaccines or had some sort of like, you know, brain damage or adverse, they they reacted to it in a bad way and now they have a serious medical condition. And if you don't think this has happened, stop, stop living under a rock, get your head out of the sand because there are thousands and thousands of documented cases of vaccine injury ⁓ children. Okay. It just is. Just because it didn't happen to you, it didn't happen to me, that doesn't mean it didn't happen to other people. It happens. So accept it, move on. but nineteen eighty-six, it was now ruled that people could no longer sue the vaccine manufacturers for failing to warn people that this could be an a reaction to the vaccine. So we have there's a reason why we have labels on everything of like side effects. Okay. There's a reason for that. Is so if it happens, we're like, well, we told you when you made the decision to still take it, eat it, drink it, whatever. We told you this could happen. That's on you. But at least say, like they warned us. Well, hmm, they're not warning people. So how liable are they? So that happened in 1996 in the vaccines. And then if you look at the vaccine schedule, it then started skyrocketing. With how many vaccines were given to children. And again, you can think that's a great thing or a bad thing. It doesn't matter. I'm look, I'm telling you, I'm I'm wanting you to see like what happened because of that result. Is so vaccine manufacturers no longer can be held liable. They can no longer be sued for whatever reaction people have from vaccines. And so lo and behold, we just started throwing vaccines at kids at an alarming rate. And so the amount that is like on the CDC schedule now for children is insane. Like I'm 40 years old. So I was born in 1986 whenever this happened. And so, like for me, you know, I was vaccinated. My parents vaccinated us. They didn't have a problem with that. So, like the recommended schedule for me was like a grand total of I think three vaccines, like hepatitis B, the MMR, ⁓ I think like the tetanus. And ⁓ yeah, pretty sure that was it. I mean, that's like way three. Okay, whenever I'm just a few weeks old, as opposed to now, ha like how many they're given now. Like I think it's up to like 18 in just the first month or two of life, which is insane. I mean, now you have like flu vaccines, chicken pox vaccines, COVID vaccines, ⁓ you know, all the boosters with all of these things. Like there's a million, there's so many more vaccines that are now on that schedule. ⁓ so coincidence that we're having more problems with our kids. I'll leave it there. But anyway, that's what happened with vaccines. And now I'm concerned that this is gonna happen with glyphosate as well. So that was a long rabbit trail to to put park it here because this is what happened in 1986. So now are we gonna start seeing glyphosate? ⁓ are we gonna start seeing the use of glyphosate go through the roof? And that is a huge, huge concern that. Is why you should be concerned. is are is this gonna have the same effect as the vaccine schedule? Now again, completely different areas. You know, it's not like anyone is told, like, ⁓ you know, newborn, you need to be spraying glyphosate. Like, I understand, like, it's a completely different thing. But, you know, is this gonna affect this? Are we now gonna see an increase in it and thus an increase in health issues or You know, is it now going to be testing more in our foods that we find at the store? Because unfortunately, we live, I mean, fortunately, slash unfortunately, you know, we live in a global type world, a way like the way that God created plants to be is, you know, what about the farmer who is choosing to use glyphosate, but yet next door to someone who's trying to be organic, but the wind blows, you know, or plants cross-pollinate. ⁓ glyphosate gets in the water. And that water is also, you know, if it's especially if it's like a river or a ⁓ seeping into the levels where like whales wells are coming from. And, you know, is it still getting into those organic fields? And that's why I think back in ⁓ several months ago when I did that podcast and that study came out that was done here in Florida showing glyphosate even in organic bread. And I think it's just because glyphosate is now. Out there in our environment, and there's no way that we can 110% get rid of it no matter how much organic farming and stuff that you're trying to do. It's definitely way less, okay, than the Kim Mitchell. I mean, it definitely helps. ⁓ but ⁓ that's that's my that's a big concern that I have. And so yeah, I'm ⁓ I'm angry about this because I'm like, what what happened to Maha? Okay. All this whole Maha thing, what? What you gave us a food pyramid that also. Got rid of grains. That's a thing for me. Okay. And I talked about that too. Okay. Okay. So we did a new food pyramid. Well, I disagree with that too. Okay. And and now this glyphosate. Yep. We should just increase it. No problem. Really? ⁓ And then on top of that, and on top of that, ⁓ they just came back with mandating the flu vaccine for those in the military. So we we've already gone back. We're going backwards. We're going backwards to ⁓ You know, now we are mandating vaccines. Again, that was just for military members. ⁓ so maybe you're totally cool with that, whatever. But the fact that it's mandated, that's what people don't want is people don't want to be told, take this or lose your job. Take this so you can't come into my store. Like put something in your body or you're not allowed to work, you don't even deserve to live. Yeah, that's that's what people have problems with. Okay. And like we, y'all, we are here about to celebrate our 250th year. ⁓ since the Declaration of Independence, since we seceded from England, by the way, it was a secession cry. ⁓ that's a whole history thing, if you know, you know. But ⁓ here we are. Like, think of the freedoms that our forefathers fought and died for to give to us. Hmm all for our nation now to really, I mean, it is it is disheartening because, like, yep, yep, big farm, big ag, ⁓ you know, or big pharma, big ag ⁓ big ⁓ military industrial complex. ⁓ these are the people that actually control and run the government. And there's more to that list, but I'm trying to be nice and not super political. ⁓ but This is the times that we live in now. So, in saying that, what can we do about it? Okay. Because I understand we can be angry. Angry is definitely an emotion to process. But I'm also the type of person, like, okay, okay, you know, you're angry about it. You can yell, you can cuss, you can scream, you can throw things, whatever, but that's actually not solving the problem. So, like for me. So, looking at this, what what can we do about this? Okay. It is what it is. There may be an increase in glyphosate. So here, here are things to consider. And these are principles that can go across many different types of fields, not just this. One, you focus on yourself and your own home and your own people. What can you do for your home? I, one person, cannot change the world. Okay. But God has given me, ⁓ He has blessed me where I have a husband. And he has blessed me with a whole mess of children. Okay. He's blessed me with land and a homestead and my house. ⁓ you know, this YouTube channel. So what can I do with what I have to bring glory to the Lord and also make the world a better place? ⁓ you know, leave the world better off than when I when I came in. Like you leave something behind that makes the world better just for you being in it. I've heard that a quote before and I loved it. ⁓ so what can I do? Well, what can I do is to raise my children ⁓ well, ⁓ to love the Lord, to know scripture, to do right no matter what, when the stars rain down to teach them healthy eating, like this is real food, this is not real food, this is the dangers of glyphosate and using these chemicals. Hey, we are gardening and this is why we aren't using these chemicals on our plants. This is what we use because this, you know, we use. Cow manure or chicken manure because this is the fertilizer that God created. And we make compost from this. And this is what's healthy because we know this is something God created. And so I don't have to understand exactly all the science behind it, but I know that it's something the Lord gave us. And I know that it's probably going to be the best way to do things. And so doing things God's way, teaching our kids to do that, loving my husband, loving my family, taking care of my home and doing what I can here. This also involves, you know, I vote with my dollars. Okay. Yes, big, huge corporations with millions of dollars at stake is choosing to sell us chemicals, choosing to sell us ultra-processed food because ultimately, in the end of the day, that's what makes them money. So, what's going to happen if they're no longer making money? Because people aren't buying their products. They're going to change. And that's what happens. So you may be one person, but if we are all doing these little things, it's how we got. It's how we got the high fructose corn syrup out of a lot of the foods that we have in the store. See, now you actually see foods and they state like no high fructose corn syrup used because that's that's how we made a change. Because what they will listen to is their their little chart going down. Okay. That little line chart that shows their profits, it going down. And that's whenever they'll start paying attention because people are no longer buying that product. Well, why aren't they buying that product? Because it's not safe. Because they don't want it, because they don't think that it will make them safe. Now, this can backfire. Okay. It backfired with the whole gluten-free thing. And that's why we have now gluten-free highly processed food, because which is now a multi-million dollar industry. So, you know, I mean, it can go crazy, but capitalism, and I'm not against capitalism. ⁓ but that that is what happens. ⁓ so we, you know, but that is how we change the world is we try to do what we can in those little ways. And one, of course, milling your own grains, baking bread. Okay, because in doing so, here's here's the beauty of milling your own wheat and using that in your house instead of store-bought flour. One, you have far more control over your health and the food that you're making by choosing just if you choose the flour that you are using by milling yourself. It is whole grain and you are getting all of those beneficial nutrients. They are it's such a super food. Real whole grains is such a super food. And it's actually still cheap. Okay. It is still cheap. And my phone is ringing. Sorry. Okay. ⁓ I think I just hung up on my dad. Sorry, dad, if you're listening to this. ⁓ but ⁓ yeah, let me go back. Okay. Yeah, he's still calling me. Let me let me knock my phone. Okay. And I and my watch will ring too. And I I thought I silenced it and I did not. So let me sorry, pause. Okay, now it's silence. Okay. ⁓ so Back to the grains. So ⁓ with milling grains, superfood, you can control it. You can even go even further because it goes beyond just choosing what name brand flour to buy from the store. Because when you mill, you're buying the whole wheat yourself. You can actually then buy directly from our farmer, our wonderful, amazing farmers who work there about off to ⁓ to give us these good, delicious grains. You can now buy directly from them. And doing that, okay. Buying from these farmers like Four Generations Organic Farms, Grant Teton Ancient Grains. We have Palouse Heritage, ⁓ Neutramil, Palouse, Azure Standard would be another one. I'm just off the ⁓ come top of my head. So buying directly, I mentioned neutramil, they're not farmers, sorry. ⁓ ignore them, grain mills from neutramil, but ⁓ so buying directly from these farmers. ⁓ you're cutting out the middleman. It's more money into their pocket. And all of these farmers that I mentioned are typically now not pollute. They are not organic farmers, but they are conventional farmers that choose not to use glyphosate, desiccants, or any of those harmful chemicals. They choose not to do that because they know that their customers do not want it. And they are going to be far more willing to listen to you as a customer one-on-one. them than say a big huge massive corporation with a board, you know, a big board, and they have these all of these processed foods. Like they're not actually involved in the farming and stuff. Most of these farmers, I know, ⁓ you know, speaking with Adam, with Grant Teton, Bob from Four Generations Organic Farms, like they are still very much in the process of the farming. Like they still have their hands in the actual farming and planting and they're walking through their reef fields, they're checking on it's a much smaller operation. And they're gonna be far more in tune to it than the big CEO who just sits in a boardroom, flies his, you know, his second plane to his fourth home in the Bahamas, you know, for example. And so ⁓ that's what we can do. And I think it is a huge thing to do because if you look at some of the dominating blank, I went blank crops, sorry. The dominating crops in this country that are grown, they're grains. Corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton, cotton's not a grain. But those are huge products. And if you start buying your corn that is organic, ⁓ non-GMO, we, you know, buy that, focus on that. Buy your wheats that are non-GMO, mill them yourself. And enough people start doing that, we can change these industries. If enough people are saying no, I don't want genetically modified whatever, I don't want glyphosate sprayed whatever, they're gonna change their tactics because otherwise they're not gonna make money. Okay. And that's the cold hard truth. So these are things that you can do. Do not fear and don't stress so much, like, yes, I said that I'm angry about this decision, and I am, okay. I am angry because I also feel like saying I told you so for all the people who think like government or is actually truly gonna fix something. They're not. They never will. Okay. I've never seen where government truly in the long run made something better. Usually it gets jacked up and maybe fine temporarily and then just way off the railings. Okay. And so, ⁓ yeah, once again, it's like, I told you so, I told you, like you think this is like. Gonna change everything, but no. And also we still have to be diligent of no matter who's in office, they're still gonna jack up. So we need to be paying attention and we need to be, you know, still contact, you know, senators or representatives and be like, nope, I don't want this. Thankfully, it does work because they did try to squeeze this in. They did try to squeeze in ⁓ this where Bayer could not, where any company could not be held liable. For this, so glyphosate could not be held liable for cancer and and others. They tried to sneak that into the big farm bill that was passing. Thankfully, people caught wind of it. Big brew ha ha maha people came in, you know, as in like the voters, not the actual people in there. I don't think, but enough attention was put on it to where they did take it out, thankfully. But they have been trying and we must stay diligent. ⁓ unfortunately, this was a big loss for us. ⁓ but these are things to look out for. So continue. Supporting your your farmers in any way possible, as much as you can. Support your farmers who are not using glyphosate, who are farming the way that you want them to farm. ⁓ how can we how are we supporting farmers that are going to actually help ⁓ our children and our grandchildren and our great grandchildren's generation? Is there gonna be something left for them? What kind of world are we leaving them? And also focus on focus on your family. Okay. Love those that God has given you. Okay. Take care of them. If you're still in the I'm raising children. Phase, ⁓ raise them well for the Lord. If you're a grandparent, raise you still have an effect on your grandchildren. Okay. You still have that authority in their life. You still have an impact. Don't stop. Okay. I know grandparents now we're seeing more where grandparents are like, I raise my kids, I'm opting out. No, okay. You still have so much that you can teach your children. Even if it's just, you know, grandma, grandpa, you bring your grandchild in the kitchen. Let's mill some wheat and bake some cookies. Okay. Like that's awesome. That's teaching them. And you're making memories with them. These are the things that we can do. And if enough people do them, have their head on straight and do them, and we're diligent in the things that God has given us, this is how we make the world a better place. Okay. So I know that this one was long, y'all. I would love to hear your comments and thoughts about this. But otherwise, I'm gonna cut it off here. ⁓ again, do watch that Joel Salatin interview. It is wonderful, eye-opening, again, much shorter than this own podcast. And as always, y'all, I hope that y'all have a wonderful day and I'll talk to you later. Bye.