Oats are good for you, but not when they’re drenched with carcinogenic, gut-microbiome-destroying weed killers like Monsanto (now Bayer)’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup.
Oats aren’t “Roundup Ready” (genetically engineered to soak-up Roundup), but spraying oats with Roundup dries them out and makes them easier to harvest.
Pepsi-Co’s Quaker Oats have the highest Roundup residues.
Monsanto lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency to raise the acceptable levels of glyphosate residues on our food from 0.1 parts per million in 1993 to 30 parts per million today.
Our representatives in Congress, which Bayer spends $7.5 million lobbying every year, are asleep at the wheel. No bill to ban Roundup has ever been introduced in Congress and the only bill to address the pre-harvest spraying of Roundup hasn’t been reintroduced since it was first proposed in 2019.