What began for investigative journalist Carey Gillam as "just an assignment" on food and agriculture grew to be not only her passion, but the focus of her reporting for the last twenty years. Carey's intimate knowledge of food and farming in the U.S. comes from time spent with row crop farmers, ranchers, vegetable growers and orchard operators from the Dakotas to Texas, and from California to the Southeast. She has been welcomed inside the high-tech laboratories, greenhouses and corporate offices of some of the largest U.S. agribusinesses. And Carey has spent countless hours interviewing key U.S. regulators, lawmakers, and scientists involved in food and agriculture. Her book "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science", was published in October 2017, and has been compared to Rachel Carson's famously hard-hitting expose on DDT, "Silent Spring".