Rep. Massie Says Glyphosate Is Sprayed on Ripe Wheat to Dry It out Before Harvest

MASSIE: “Here's one place where I would never, ever use it, and I don't think it should be legal. They spray it on ripe wheat to dry it out before they harvest it. Like, this is the food you're going to eat. It's like the next step is to grind it and bake it into bread. And they are just one step away from you eating it, and they're spraying it with glyphosate, the whole plant, so that it will die quickly and dry out quickly and save them some money. Maybe they can get the next crop in there four days earlier into that land. And I've been -- and by the way, that's been banned in Europe, but not here in the United States. And they say, 'Oh, Congressman Massie, this is only used on 3 percent of the wheat crops in the United States.' First of all, I don't believe that. But if it is true, then why don't we just grow something else there in that 3 percent where it's too wet to grow wheat? Why don't we grow soybeans or something instead of wheat at that place, or something you don't need glyphosate to dry it out with? Or maybe you'll get 80 or 90 percent of the yield you would have gotten if you hadn't sprayed poison on it to dry it out quickly.”

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Rep. Massie Says Glyphosate Is Sprayed on Ripe Wheat to Dry It out Before Harvest‘What we’re talking about is the misapplication of it or the mislabeling of it’News & Politics,International,Health & FitnessEXCERPT:MASSIE: “Here's one place where I would never, ever use it, and I don't think it should be legal. They spray it on ripe wheat to dry it out before they harvest it. Like, this is the food you're going to eat. It's like the next step is to grind it and bake it into bread. And they are just one step away from you eating it, and they're spraying it with glyphosate, the whole plant, so that it will die quickly and dry out quickly and save them some money. Maybe they can get the next crop in there four days earlier into that land. And I've been -- and by the way, that's been banned in Europe, but not here in the United States. And they say, 'Oh, Congressman Massie, this is only used on 3 percent of the wheat crops in the United States.' First of all, I don't believe that. But if it is true, then why don't we just grow something else there in that 3 percent where it's too wet to grow wheat? Why don't we grow soybeans or something instead of wheat at that place, or something you don't need glyphosate to dry it out with? Or maybe you'll get 80 or 90 percent of the yield you would have gotten if you hadn't sprayed poison on it to dry it out quickly.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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