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Glyphosate, the “Wheat killer,” is discussed as a herbicide associated with food safety concerns. The speaker notes that the FDA, in its reports for studies on different foods, omitted oats for some reason. They say we don’t have to worry about that because Monsanto, the creator of glyphosate, did their own studies and claimed that it’s completely safe. So we don’t really have to worry about that. But of course, the World Health Organization did say that glyphosate is a carcinogen, and there was a lawsuit that was won in court by someone being exposed to glyphosate and winning millions of dollars because they developed cancer. And the type of cancer apparently increases the risk for is called non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But another organization called EWG, which I’ll put a link down below, when they found traces of glyphosate, wheat killer, and over 95% of samples of oat products. And it’s not that this oat is genetically modified. They use glyphosate as a pre harvest drying agent because it can kill the plant really quick and dry it up. And that’s what they use not only in oats, but in wheat.