McKay Jenkins | GMOs, Pesticides, & Toxic America - The Higherside Chats | Conspiracy and Paranormal Podcast

Join host Greg Carlwood of The Higherside Chats podcast as he talks GMOs, Pesticides, and Toxic America with guest, McKay Jenkins. While many of us can agree that corporations such as Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and DuPont have had a negative effect on the health and well-being of citizens throughout the globe and their products have contributed to the decimation of bee and butterfly populations, pollution of our water supply, and poisoning of our environment -it can be difficult to fully understand the complete impact of their atrocities. And with many of us living in concrete jungles and cookie-cutter suburbs, slowly we have alienated ourselves from our food sources. So, due to the marginalizing local farms to the outskirts of communities, the subsidizing of inner city food deserts with factory farmed produce, and the bought-and-paid Washington lobbyist working on Big Agro’s behalf -we are left consuming a never-ending chain of bullshit that slowly chips away at our health, and leave us deficient and weak. While much of this comes as no surprise to many at The Higherside, today’s guest, McKay Jenkins, has taken this thread one step further. As an author of books such as “Food Fight” and “ContamiNation”, Jenkins has first hand knowledge of just has far this problem of toxicity spreads and the most impactful ways to effect change. 2:45 While a phrase like “GMO” is considered a loaded term, it is important to remember that the situation is extremely complex and in order to properly understand the entire picture, we must look at both the macro and micro ecosystems of our planet. Jenkins begins by addressing our relationship with consumption, our detachment from how our food is made, and our ignorance about the chemicals used in their production. He continues by discussing the evaporation of local farms and the subsequent effects this detachment to the food chain has caused. 11:11 With Big Agro hiding behind claims that GMOs are a necessity for solving world hunger and uplifting developing nations,