011 / Carey Gillam

Today I am talking with Carey Gillam, author and an investigative
journalist for 25 years both with Reuters and The Guardian. She is
also the researcher director for US Right to Know, the most
effective non-profit research organization exposing how corporate
funding of Public agricultural Universities like UC Davis and Uni
of Florida corrupt the research about the danger of agro chemicals.
Her research of industrial agricultural practices and the chemicals
it requires has taken her throughout rural America. She has spent
time with row crop farmers, ranchers, vegetable growers and orchard
operators from the Dakotas to Texas, and from California to the
Southeast. She has been welcomed inside the high-tech laboratories,
greenhouses and corporate offices of some of the largest U.S.
agribusinesses. And she has spent countless hours interviewing key
U.S. regulators, academics, lawmakers, and scientists. With years
of this behind-the-scenes reporting, Gillam has developed deep
insight into the risks and rewards of the modern-day food system,
and hopes to share that knowledge with others who care about the
food they eat and feed to their families. Carey has just finished
her second book, The Monsanto Papers; Deadly Secrets, Corporate
Corruption and One Mans Search for Justice. To Quote a Barnes and
Noble review, “With enough money and influence, could a company
endanger its customers, hide evidence, manipulate regulators, and
get away with it all—for decades?”