06/08/2026
“Glyphosate Free” oats? I was an oat grower for many years, and never met anyone that sprayed glyphosate on oats. I’m sorry, but this is just another fear based MARKETING narrative to sell you more expensive food products. Labels labels labels! They never end! 💸🤑 There is plenty of evidence that glyphosate does NOT cause cancer. Organic uses pesticides, too.
FYI - oats are NOT “roundup ready.” They are Non-GMO. Don’t believe the fear based marketing that it’s everywhere. The people telling you this are NOT farmers and don’t understand actual food production and how it works. The testing methodology is also usually quite flawed and detects false positives. These profitable labels are designed to scare you into their pockets.
Glyphosate happens to be the safest herbicide that farmers have ever had access to, which is what makes it so popular and available at any Home Depot or Walmart. The law firms are the ones making bank, while it’s pretty much impossible to end up in your food. In the US, we cannot and do not spray glyphosate on oats. I was an oat farmer for many years, and our family were oat buyers for Quaker.
In Canada, oat desiccation is a rare practice and oats (and other crops) are protected by husks, pods, shells, etc. The methodology that’s used by these very profitable “No Glyphosate” labels is generally flawed and can detect false positives.
While BS labels like Non GMO project, organic… and now glyphosate free are the latest food label boogeyman designed to sell you more expensive food. I don’t buy into any of it. I only buy GMO/conventional. Even IF glyphosate would be found in food (highly unlikely) the dose makes the poison. You’d need to eat thousands of servings in a single sitting in order to negatively impact you. When we sprayed it on our farm, it was one day a year…maybe 2. At a rate of 22 ounces per acre, which is like 2 beer cans on an area of land the size of a football field… long before the edible part is present.
Let’s not forget a lot of this is politically driven. Politicians want to give themselves a health halo by sharing false narratives like this to get elected (I am looking at YOU, Texas.) despite the fact this was never an issue to begin with. Follow the money - it’s easy to make billions off of convincing a jury or selling you something 🤑
Go ahead and destroy me in the comments and hate me if you want. This post is not sponsored, FYI. I do not make any profits by sharing this info with you.
But I DO share the truth on farming practices and what it ACTUALLY looks like to supply the entire world with constant food, and I’m proud of helping people to learn the facts and not FEAR FOOD. Farmers are 1% of the population and feeding everyone is complicated. It’s hard. Oats are very good for you, and I encourage people to eat them - without fear. If you understand food and farming practices, you should feel extremely comfortable asking questions and consuming oats!
Okay. Off to my conventional oatmeal breakfast now. Thanks for being here and learning about farm facts! 🥣
