August 20, 2024: Repair and restore

The Fabulous 413

Today, we're awakening to some truths the plants in our lives can tell us about.

We’ll head around the corner to Jen’s Organics where Jenell Smith is bringing a more public face to her ongoing journey of flavorful veganism in Mason Square. We’ll find out what inspired her change of habit, and the challenges she’s facing in her new brick and mortar endeavor, and the many delicious surprises that have happened along the way. .

We then turn our attention to the plants and soil, and the people who tend them, who have been getting very very sick under our very noses and see a documentary that outlines one man’s legal fight against a massive corporation just to get answers, and find out that his struggle is connected to all of us. The film is called Into The Weeds and takes both a micro and macro look at Monsanto, the avalanche of legal troubles they’ve encountered, and the product at the core of it’s troubles: RoundUp or Glyphosate.

We talk with Carey Gillam, author of "The Monsanto Papers;" Jennifer Baishwal, director of the film itself, and Massachusetts State Representative Carmine Gentile, who is sponsoring a bill regulating pesticides in the Bay State, and who will be introducing the movie when it shows tonight at the Triplex in Great Barrington.