The modern grocery store is the only place on earth where you can buy an apple grown in South America, washed in Asia, packaged in Europe, and recalled in Ohio. Meanwhile, your morning oatmeal has been sprayed with glyphosate right before harvest. And the seeds for next year’s crops are patented—meaning farmers can’t save them without getting sued.
Kristy Allen exposes the corporate takeover of America’s food supply. From the salmonella outbreak traced back to Sinaloa, Mexico, to the Roundup Ready seeds that turned farming into a software subscription model, she reveals how a handful of multinational corporations have turned the natural life cycle into a paywalled system.
Glyphosate wasn’t just sprayed on GMO crops—it became standard practice to spray non-GMO wheat, oats, and barley right before harvest as a drying agent. Your organic pear? Environmental drift means the same chemical cocktail blown onto conventional fields likely landed on it too. The strict boundary between organic and conventional food dissolves under the reality of wind, rain, and cross-pollination.
Bayer acquired Monsanto for $63 billion and retired the brand name, but the lawsuits keep coming—over $10 billion in settlements for non-Hodgkin lymphoma linked to Roundup. Yet the spraying continues.
