In yet another blow to German chemical giant Bayer, a U.S. court recently dismissed the company’s proposed $2 billion settlement as unconscionable in seeking to prevent future legal claims from cancer victims exposed to Roundup.

Toxic chemicals are showing up in the wrappers of America’s favorite burgers. In 2020, consumer advocates released a report finding that several of the nation’s largest fast food chains all had packaging with elevated levels of fluorine, indicating treatment with chemicals called PFAS.

Our current agricultural system is characterized in large part by industrial-scale farms that grow only one species of crop at a time, with no or inadequate rotation. Although industrial agriculture over time the system has degraded the land, water, and other resources we depend on for life.