- So all of the three sisters.

- Have been staple crops - for a vast array of cultures.

- And civilizations, both -ancient and current, -in the Americas and beyond.

-Maize in particular, -which we often call corn, - has, outside of its deep.

- Culinary traditions, spawned - a host of non-food.

- Related industries - and become -the most cultivated crop.

- In the United States.

- Unfortunately, the methods.

- Employed in growing - corn and other crops on such.

- An industrialized scale has been.

Oh, hey.

-What's up?

I'm just getting my notebook -to take some notes.

And you and Renee have.

What are you doing?

I'm freaking out.

Oh, yes, you are.

I'm having trouble -breathing.

- Do you think.

- I'm developing asthma?

- It looks more like you're.

- Having a panic attack.

It does?

- Yeah.

- What is going on?

Glyphoste.

- Sorry.

Have you.

- Ever heard of glyphosate?

No.

What about dicamba?

No.

Glyphosate is another.

Are you just making -up?

Where?

- Okay, I'm thinking -you might actually.

- Have a head injury here.

- Oh, no.

- You can keep that.

I'm good.

- You're going to need it.

- Okay, Renee.

- I'm fine.

- You clearly are not.

- So we're going.

- To take you to the doctor.

- Okay.

-They're all herbicides.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

Herbicides are yucky.

- Here's your jacket.

They change the crops -to make them resistant -to the herbicides.

-Okay, -but that doesn't make sense.

- Why would anyone do that?

- Right?

So they could spray -the field - indiscriminately.

- And kill everything.

- But they're stupid.

- Crops.

Right.

But they don't do that.

Because using herbicides on - that scale would wreak havoc.

- On ecological systems, - devastate wildlife, pollutes.

- The waterways, and probably have adverse - long term effects on human.

- Health.

It just.

- That'd be insanely.

- Irresponsible.

- Now let's.

- Get you to the hospital.

But they are doing it.

I don't think so.

Now it's pretty bright out.

- So I recommend.

- Wearing your sunglasses.

No.

Okay.

Don't wear them.

-Listen to me, Renee.

I've been listening to you.

- Everything you're saying.

- Sounds crazy.

Oh, you want crazy?

I'll give you crazy.

-So back in the 90s, -this big agro company starts developing their own -patented - strains of certain crops.

- Like corn and soybeans - that were unaffected.

- By glyphosate.

- Okay.

- It's a little farfetched.

When they got approved - by the USDA to begin.

- Growing them.

But over time, the weeds - they were trying to kill.

- With glyphosate - began developing.

- A resistance to it.

- Now, see, you're.

- Getting things mixed up.

- That's what's happening.

- With bacteria right now, which is developing -resistance - to antibiotics.

- Due to their overuse.

Exactly.

- Which meant.

- They had to develop - new strains of those crops.

- That could resist - other herbicides.

- On top of glyphosate.

- Okay.

-I, I think I see.

- Where this is going.

- The company realized that.

- Trying - to outpace -the development.

- Of resistance in the targeted weed species - by constantly.

- Making new strains of crops - that are themselves.

- Resistant to more and more dangerous -herbicides, - is a losing battle -and bad.

- For everyone in everything - who isn't profiting.

- Off their development.

- So instead of poisoning.

- The environment - with increasingly.

- Toxic chemicals, - they pulled the plug.

- On the whole thing -and returned to growing, -unmodified heirloom varieties.

Right.

- You think.

- A giant agricultural company - voluntarily abandoned.

- Billions of dollars in decades of development -because their products would -damage the environment?

- I think you might have.

- A concussion.

- Okay, look, -maybe that doesn't track.

- With modern capitalism, but.

What are you saying.

They're still making these -herbicide -resistant crops there.

- Now the majority of what's.

- Grown in this country.

Wait wait wait wait.

The majority.

Yeah.

As in more than half.

- It's a good thing.

- You have a head injury.

- Can you imagine.

- If that were actually true?

- 51% of corn.

- And soybeans in America are now resistant -to this list - of popular environmentally.

- Destructive herbicides.

It's not 51%.

Yeah I know.

- Look, you hit your head.

- At some point, - and now you're spiraling.

- In a dystopian fever dream.

- I'm just musing about.

- How terrifying it would be - if that were actually.

- Reality.

It's over 90%.

- No.

See, -this is where you start.

- Pursuing a narrative - that's not even kind.

- Of believable.

Look it up.

-Okay, -here, I'll make you a deal.

I'll look it up.

But then we go -to the hospital - to get your noggin checked.

- Out.

Okay?

Fine.

Great.

-All right.

Now, -how do you spell glyphosate?

Jeez.

Legal one.

Oh, look at that.

Glyphosate.

No.

No, no.

- Okay.

- What?

Yeah, yeah.

- My foot, my throat.

- Just got a little dry.

- Yeah.

-Yeah, -I think I, I think I just.

- Clicked on a bad article.

- Don't.

- Believe everything you read.

I'll just -check this one out.

Okay.

This.

No, that can't be right.

Ooh ooh.

It's okay.

Are you hot?

Yeah.

Why do they.

- Why do they make the words.

- On these websites so wiggly?

Maybe you should sit down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is a.

- These are.

- These are some good weeks.

Website and fake websites.

- I mean, is.

- This can't this isn't true.

I mean.

- Oh, don't don't don't.

- Don't say this isn't true.

-Look, -the internet says it's true, - but the internet lies.

- All the time.

-This is just -this is just some big, like, -conspiracy theory, right?

Fake news.

Renee.

You got me.

-That was a good one.

Okay, -but tell her.

Don't joke.

Tony.

This is fake news, right?

-I am sorry to say this, -Jean, but it is all true.

But, but but but, but but, Oh.