Syngenta

And also the Paraquat Parkinson's disease litigation, which has me tied up pretty heavily now.

I'm working on a new expert report that's due in about a week on a next round of cases that Syngenta is facing over Paraquat and Parkinson's disease.

So I've been deeply involved in the science and regulatory issues of chlorpyrifos, which was the major OP insecticide and the most important pesticide in the whole debate about the Food Quality Protection Act.

Glyphosate and non-haunches of FOMA, which, of course, has been the most significant pesticide litigation ever.

It's a massive, hugely significant body of litigation.

And paraquat and Parkinson's disease is also very significant.

And I mention all this because I've now had an opportunity spanning almost 15 years to study in detail how Dow AgroSciences in the context of chlorpyrifos, Syngenta and its predecessor companies in its stewardship of Paraquat, and Monsanto, Bayer with Roundup and non-Hodges of FOMA, I've seen how the chemical companies when faced with significant public health impacts and litigation, how they respond and what they do and how over the years they try to insulate themselves from legal liability for poisoning people, making people sick.

And they're very good at it.

This has allowed them to maintain chokeholds on our own food supply, given them opportunities for intellectual property theft, and granted them leverage to use our products to address their own food insecurity.

One such case is that of Syngenta, a seed and crop protection company masquerading as a Swiss organization, which is in actuality controlled by Beijing, and the subject of a new report from the America First Policy Institute, Choke Points, How to Counter China's Control of American Agriculture.

Today, we're excited to be joined by its author.

Adam Savit serves as director for China Policy at the America First Policy Institute.

Thanks for that outlook of kind of the background to this.

I'd love to zero in on the subject here.

You focus on one company in particular, Syngenta, and go ahead and explain to us who they are, what they do, and what that connection to Beijing you were alluding to is.

Right.