ארגון אימהות אמריקני שפועל לקידום מזון בריא ונקי מרעלים | ריאיון

Zen Honeycutt thank you so much for being with us at NTD today. So to start off for our viewers maybe at home who don't know much about you could you please just give us a short your story how you came to be with Moms Across America and how you got involved in this movement. Yeah great I'm I'm a mom just like millions of moms out there struggle I was struggling with my children's health issues, life-threatening allergies, over 20 different allergies each one of my three boys had autism one of them had autism symptoms, autoimmune issues, asthma at one point and my husband and I were completely baffled as to why this was happening we thought it can't just be our children there's got to be something else going on and so I looked into the food supply I learned about GMOs genetically modified organisms and glyphosate and I learned that our food supply had been changed at that point it was 17 years ago now it's been 30 years that genetically modified foods were introduced into our food without labeling and 80% of them are engineered to withstand glyphosate which is also known as Roundup it's a an herbicide that is sprayed on the crops and it kills the weeds but because the crops are genetically modified they survive and the weeds die it's also sprayed as a drying agent on crops before harvest such as wheat, peas, beans, legumes, lentils and so Americans are consuming and our export partners are consuming glyphosate at much higher levels than ever anticipated before and that pesticide is actually you know an herbicide is an endocrine disruptor or carcinogen a nervous system affects the nervous system the neurological system liver and kidney disease so I learned all these things about the food supply as I was researching what had happened to our food and I decided to create an organization first it was just an event Moms Across America March to label GMOs in 4th of July parades back in 2013 and we had 179 groups that joined in the 4th of July parades which are family-friendly fun they're not a protest right they're accessible they're easy they're affordable and we reached thousands locally and millions nationally in a single day and we went on to have 600 leaders create over 1,000 events in all 50 states so since then we know we became a nonprofit we've reached hundreds of millions of people and what we're sharing is that when our children and our family members switch to organic food and avoid GMOs and toxic pesticides we get better our health improves and so we think everybody should have access to non-toxic nutrient-dense food and we'll continue to raise awareness about many issues that impact our families and how they can improve their health and what is the relationship between Moms Across America and your work and the Maha movement more broadly as we're seeing this enter the the political sphere maybe more and more well I would I would sort of classify what's happening now with the Maha movement as Moms Across America and several other food groups and many other health freedom groups you know medical freedom mothers and parents that wanted just the right to be able to vaccinate their child or not right to be able to choose those two groups the health freedom and the food advocacy groups are like the tidal wave that is now impacting America regarding health and freedom and Maha is like the crest right like there are many of our moms that have been doing this for 20 or 30 years that they didn't call themselves Maha back then but now you know they're being classified as Maha so we're super excited that the Maha movement has sort of moved into the White House and the Hill I've never seen that in my lifetime where a grassroots group has sort of become adopted and accepted by an administration