Ban Glyphosate. This one simple move would add trillions of dollars to our economy and extend millions of American lives. Think about It: the industrial farming industry argues that our food system is so dysfunctional that we must spray truckloads of this neurotoxin over everything we eat. Glyphosate is the lynchpin of the food/pharma Devil's Bargain that is making us sick. Since the beginning of farming, a diverse array of food and animals were raised in one plot - this biodiversity fostered soil health, created natural pesticides and actually produced a higher crop output per acre than any other framing method. We moved to a mono-cropping system so tractors could automate simple functions over long plots of land. This practice started with good intentions but has led to disaster. This practice necessitates the need for pesticides. This led to glyphosate and seeds that are genetically modified to resist this carcinogen chemical. The same company (@Bayer) owns both. The barrage of toxins and lack of bio-diversity has poisoned our soil, leading food to be significantly (50%+) less nutrient-dense than it was 100 years ago. Estimates say we have 40 harvests of useable soil left. Through hundreds of millions in lobbying, we have let this glyphosate-addicted farming system take hold - creating foods that is destroying our microbiome and bodies - leading directly to our chronic disease crisis. Taking away glyphosate (as the EU is doing) necessitates a move to more natural farming practices. It incentivizes using technology to improve regenerative farming instead of monocropping. Regenerative farming produces higher crop outputs and non-poisoned food, and we have the tools to make this shift. We have a farming system designed for tractors created 120 years ago but we now have robotic technology that can efficiently harvest plots of land with biodiversity. People say solutions to our health crisis are hard. They're not. Simple actions attacking the lynchpin of our sick-care system - like banning glyphosate - would have a profound impact. We just need leadership.
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