Dangers Of The Vegan Diet, Glyphosate, And Vaccines With Zen Honeycutt

Shots, nutrient-deficient diets, and pesticides are negatively impacting our children’s health…and have been for some time. Today, Zen Honeycutt, founder and president of Moms Across America, offers startling insights on the serious damage and repercussions of all of the above. She discusses studies that points to the fact that our children are getting more toxins than nutrients in their lunches, and she shares her own personal heartbreaking loss and why this is making her more determined than ever to fight on behalf of our nation’s children. She also shares where she aligns with the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement and where she sees a need for improvement.

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Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Zen Honeycutt.

School lunches with more toxins than nutrients, the implications of glyphosate and high concentrations in childhood vaccines, and the connections between all of the above and our physical and mental health and well-being. This is episode 548, and our guest is Zen Honeycutt, the Founder and Executive Director of Moms Across America.

Zen has been a longtime advocate for cleaning up our food system, including eliminating GMOs and pesticides from our diets. When she came to DC, we met for an impromptu interview where she connected the dots between these problematic toxins in our food and our environment to our children’s physical and mental health.

Zen shares her passion for all of the above and how she has been affected in a very profound and personal way. She sounds the alarm about our need to take serious action to eliminate glyphosate and other toxins from our food, and even from our vaccines. She gives us concrete action steps for doing so in our homes, our communities, and on a larger scale. Talk about an activist.

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Welcome to the show, Zen.

Thank you for having me.

How The MAHA Movement Advocates For Healthier Food

You are an amazing activist and defender of children’s health. I’m so glad that you came downtown for this latest commission report release. To be clear, the Weston A. Price Foundation is not necessarily super MAHA aligned, but they’ve been at the forefront of this movement for well-being for 25 years. Tell us. We want to get from you a bird’s-eye view of what has been happening in the MAHA movement related to vaccines, pesticides, and children’s health. Where do you want to start?

I’d like to start with the fact that the Weston A. Price Foundation is one of the reasons for the MAHA movement, along with Moms Across America and many other groups that have been working very hard. The moms and the parents have been speaking out about how their children have been harmed from toxins, diet issues, the lack of nutrition, and the pesticides and toxins in the food supply for decades.

Many of them are very clear about why their children have autism, allergies, autoimmune issues, asthma, and all of that, as are our moms. We’re all in this together. I want to thank the Weston A. Price Foundation, which has been a champion for good health and good eating for a very long time. That is first and foremost.

The MAHA Movement, I believe, is a grassroots result of all of those people who have been speaking up about health, like yourself, for a very long time. It’s quite miraculous. Think about a grassroots movement. For moms, we’ve been creating healthy communities. That’s been our goal for thirteen years. That’s basically Make America Healthy Again.

Wise Traditions | Zen Honeycutt | Glyphosate — Glyphosate: The MAHA Movement is a grassroots result of all of those people who have been speaking up about health for a very long time.

Many other groups have been doing the same thing. You’ve been advocating in Weston A. Price chapters. People have been working tirelessly to spread the word about where they can buy local food and where they can connect with other people who are like-minded and want to do something else besides vaccines, like herbal remedies and other things. That type of movement is in the White House. The movement is an actual governmental entity. That is miraculous. That shows the power of moms, parents, people, and health advocates who have been speaking up for decades.

I want to interject. Bobby Kennedy was a keynote speaker at the Weston A. Price Foundation conference a few years ago. This was a time before it all bubbled up completely to the surface, where people regarded his advocacy for children’s health and the Weston A. Price Foundation as fringe. People were on the edge, like, “You guys are weird,” so to see him as the head of HHS and in such an influential position. You’re right. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It is a grassroots movement that has bubbled up to the top.

That’s exactly what has happened. Every single Weston A. Price Foundation member, every reader of your show, and every Moms Across America supporter should be very proud that they have had a part in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being at the head of the HHS and of this not just national, but internationally recognized movement.

I’m getting people from Japan, France, and the UK. I’m getting people from around the world who are saying, “We’re so glad that Kennedy got into the HHS. We’re cheering for you. How are you guys doing this? What is happening?” It’s something that we are very proud of on behalf of all the moms and parents who have been working very hard.

Finding Harmful Toxins In School Lunches

Some people say that Bobby and his team are political posturing, that they’re talking heads that aren’t making things happen. I believe I have seen this, but I want to hear your point of view. Have you seen some genuine inroads when it comes to, for example, changing our kids’ lunches or the awareness in the public about ultra-processed foods, the food dyes, and so forth?

There are several states, like Utah, West Virginia, Texas, and California, that have passed laws that will remove food dyes and other types of other harmful chemicals from school lunches. This is amazing. I have to say that every single person who is working on a state level is supporting this to happen on a federal level. Your work does make a difference, not just for your state and the children at your local school, but on a federal level.

That’s the number one thing that we’re hearing from this administration. When you guys take action on a state level, that compels us on a federal level to also take action. They don’t want patchwork regulations. They want to have a unification of regulation. In some ways, that can be a good thing, and in some ways, that could not be a good thing, but we do know that it does make a difference when activists pass laws on a state level. It does make a difference on a federal level as well.

There’s been a credible amount of action happening there. I don’t know the exact number, but there are dozens of companies that have said, “We’re going to remove food dyes by 2026 or 2027.” This is voluntary. These are not bans. This is a voluntary action to remove food dyes from the food. I have to say that it makes a big difference.

We have moms and dads who have told us that their children eat, for instance, red food dyes in the ice cream from the food truck on Fridays when grandma would come over. She would buy her grandson a strawberry shortcake ice cream in the food truck. Every Friday, that’s when the sun-punched holes evulse. We know that these red food dyes particularly cause a rash.

We have seen this over and over again in our supporters. We have been advocating to eat organic food because organic food not only is safer, has less pesticides, and all of that, but it also doesn’t allow these toxic food dyes. If you eat organic, you’re not getting exposed to these food dyes. That’s what we’ve been advocating for for thirteen years.

If you eat organic food, you will not get exposed to pesticides and food dyes.

I love that. Moms Across America, and I’m thinking of friends of ours like Vani Hari, the Food Babe, have been advocating, not because they’re out there buying Fruit Loops, but because so many people still are. They’re not going organic, so it’s like, “Let’s help them and any way we can.” Making some shifts in the regular food supply might be a good place to start.

We’re so grateful. To Vani Hari’s advocacy, the whole Food Babe Army, and many groups out there that are raising awareness. We are grateful to all the social media influencers who are getting the word out there. It’s a very special tool that we have. Social media reaches hundreds of millions of people in a day, given the different influencers that are putting a word out. Please do share, comment, like, and all of that with your social media influencers who are raising awareness about these issues. It’s very important.

What is it about this movement, though, that is making people angry or afraid?

It’s a lot. Every time you get on Instagram, I don’t know about you, but it seems like almost every post is about some type of food that is contaminated. It’s like, “What can we eat?” It seems like we can’t eat anything because it’s all contaminated. Contributing to that with the data and the information that we’ve been releasing, it can be very overwhelming. I understand that, but it’s more important to know the truth. We release the information, and we give solutions, actions, and things that you can do to resolve that issue. Sometimes, it’s challenging, though. We have new information. Can I give you some new information?

Yes, but let’s go in order first. You did a study of school lunches. What did you find in the school lunch?

First of all, Moms Across America initiated the first glyphosate testing in 2013. You can go to our website and find all this information that I’m about to discuss. We found glyphosate in tap water, our children’s urine, and in breast milk. In breast milk, it is 3000 times higher than has been shown to cause sex hormone changes and liver and kidney damage.

This was made into international news. In Europe, it was translated into seven languages. It’s part of the reason why, from what I hear from activists in Europe who are amazing, a lot of the farmers in France and Germany, in particular, stopped using glyphosate as a drying agent because they didn’t want it to show up in their wives’ breast milk. They were very smart to do that. That’s why when you go to Europe, you can eat croissants, delicious pasta, and bread, and not get rashes and headaches like you do here in the United States.

People are thinking, “I have these things because I’m gluten intolerant,” but they’re glyphosate intolerant, right?

Yeah. They’re reacting to glyphosate. Nobody should be tolerant of glyphosate. It’s like an allergy. That’s part of the initial testing that we did, and then we branched out from testing all kinds of things, orange juice, milk, and various foods. Other organizations have tested a lot of foods for glyphosate. We started testing for pesticides, heavy metals, veterinary drugs, hormones, and all types of vitamins, minerals, and things like that.

We, within the past couple of years, tested school lunches from 18 different locations. We had 43 different samples. 93% of them were positive for glyphosate. We tested fast food because fast food suppliers supply school lunches in America, which is horrible. I think we could do better. 100% of those fast food samples were positive for glyphosate.

100% of both of them were positive for heavy metals, with some levels up to 6900% higher than what has been deemed safe by the EPA in drinking water. I have to say drinking water, not food, because the FDA doesn’t regulate heavy metals in food. The FDA only regulates baby food, applesauce, and candy for some heavy metals. They don’t regulate our entire food supply for heavy metals at all. Isn’t that scary?

That’s crazy.

We found very high levels of heavy metals in our fast food and our school lunches. We found veterinary drugs and hormones because the animals are given veterinary drugs, which contain hormones. For instance, we found an avian contraceptive in four school lunches and in Chick-fil-A sandwiches. We found butanediol, which is a central nervous system drug that causes combativeness and aggression. It’s in the meat because it increases muscle growth, but it also causes combativeness and aggression.

The person driving the car next to you who has road rage could have gone to Jack in the Box, and they’re jacked up on butanediol. It could be your kid’s sports coach. It could be your husband who’s doing domestic abuse or child abuse. There are some things going on in the American food supply that are completely outrageous. If anybody were to say that was coming from a foreign country, we would call it chemical warfare. This is chemical warfare on our children and our families, and for some reason, our government is allowing it.

We tested fourteen children’s samples for pesticides here in America. Eleven out of fourteen had a banned chemical or pesticide in them. It’s called chlormequat. We were testing for diquat and paraquat. They’re using more of that instead of glyphosate. Chlormequat is highly toxic to the reproductive organs. It was found in 11 out of 14 of the most popular children’s cereals. We looked at why, and we believe it’s because in 2018, the regulations were loosened for imports. It’s banned in the US for use, but the regulations were loosened so that imported grains could contain chlormequat. We don’t know why that’s happening.

We could buy pasta off the shelf or some cookies from some other country, and unwittingly be taking in these very strong chemicals that are harmful.

They’re banned here in the United States. Here in the United States, we use 86 pesticides that have been banned in other countries. We are probably exporting a lot of grains and products to other countries where they have banned the chemicals, and we are still using them. That could be impinged upon foreign trade agreements. I don’t think that’s advisable at all. We should not be using those pesticides at all.

How The Latest MAHA Commission Report Backpedaled

Interestingly, in the latest MAHA commission report, they backpedaled a little bit. What I mean by that is they didn’t call out these things that you’re discussing, did they?

No, they didn’t. I’m very sad about that. The MAHA commission report is an amazing historical document that addresses a dozen different environmental toxins. I would’ve been happy with them addressing one. Any amount of progress is extraordinary, and we’re very grateful for it. Bobby Kennedy is up against some incredibly powerful forces and is doing the best he can. I have utmost respect for him.

There were fourteen people on the commission report, and many of them have differing opinions, I’m sure, than he does. He had to, I’m sure, make some compromises. I’m sure the fourteen people on the panel are also getting information from the hugely powerful chemical companies that may also be influencing in untoward ways. I don’t know. The MAHA commission report failed to mention glyphosate and atrazine. They did in the 1st report, but they did not in the 2nd report. To me, that is a glaring example of chemical company corruption. I’m very disappointed that the two most widely used herbicides in the world were not mentioned.

I’d also hope to see some mention of the fact that glyphosate could be in vaccines. Years ago, Moms Across America tested five childhood vaccines and found glyphosate in every single one of them. We tested this because one day, on social media, I saw the ingredients of vaccines. Somebody posted the ingredients of vaccines.

To be honest with you, my son was nine years old, almost fully vaccinated, and I had never read them. I’d never read the ingredients. I trusted my doctor. I gave him the vaccines that were supposed to happen at the childhood wellness schedule, which is sometimes 5 of them in 1 shot or 3 diseases in 1. It’s a lot. I trusted my doctor, and my son had those vaccines. He also had twenty different food allergies. He had febrile seizures. He had gluten intolerance and all kinds of autoimmune issues.

When I saw the ingredients, which were bovine serum and chicken serum, there was some sucrose or fructose. I was like, “Those are ingredients derived from animals that would be eating GMO grains, which are sprayed with glyphosate.” We all know 80% of GMOs are engineered to withstand glyphosate, which is Roundup. It doesn’t wash, dry, or crook off. It entirely absorbs into the grains. That means there’s probably glyphosate in these vaccines.

I sent 5 childhood vaccines to be tested for glyphosate, and every single 1 of them was positive. Statistically, this is not likely. We sent 20 samples of PediaSure feeding tube liquid that children get when they have cancer to be tested for glyphosate, and 6 of them were positive. It was not every single one of them. I suspected that if glyphosate was in there, it would’ve been maybe one vaccine, but it was every single one of them.

The one that had the highest levels, which was 25 times higher than the other vaccines, was the MMR vaccine. The MMR vaccine is the one that Andy Wakefield was vilified for. He lost his career because he attributed the vaccine to gut dysbiosis. He didn’t say that the MMR vaccine caused autism. He said it caused gut dysbiosis, which is extremely prevalent across the board in children with autism.

The interesting thing about that is that the MMR vaccine is a live virus. Twenty-five percent of that vaccine has to be gelatin. Gelatin comes from where? Pigs eat what? GMO grains sprayed with glyphosate. We know from Monica Cooper’s study in Germany that glyphosate goes into tendons, muscles, and bone marrow, and remains in the animal. We believe that glyphosate is in the childhood vaccines, especially in MMR vaccines, because of the high percentage of gelatin in that vaccine.

Another man, Anthony Samsel, tested 14 childhood vaccines for glyphosate and found glyphosate present in 12 of them. The MMR vaccine had 34 times the amount of glyphosate in that vaccine. His testing corroborated ours. The terrible thing about glyphosate being in vaccines is that it doesn’t sound like a good idea. The way glyphosate functions is that it breaks through the blood-brain barrier. It’s also a chelator. Meaning, it can grab onto the aluminum that’s in the vaccines or in our food, like other heavy metals, other toxins, and any environmental toxin. It can chelate, grab it, and deposit it into the brain.

It’s escorting it into places where it can cause more havoc.

It breaks down the dam and allows the toxins in. Dr. Christopher Exley, who also has been vilified, has found higher levels of aluminum in particular parts of the brains of deceased patients with autism and adults with Alzheimer’s. He says that aluminum is causative in causing autism and Alzheimer’s. It’s in conjunction with glyphosate being present in vaccines and in our food.

The opposition would love to negate this information. However, Monsanto’s only toxicologist, Dr. Donna Farmer, was asked, “Do you test the final formulation of Roundup?” She said, “No, we don’t run the studies on the final formulation because we did that one time. The rats have very delicate stomach linings. Roundup tore up the stomach linings, and the rats died. You can’t do studies on animals that die. We did studies only on one ingredient, which is glyphosate. The only way that showed harm was when it was injected.” We all know it’s not injected.

She has gone on record saying this.

It causes harm when it’s injected. We know it’s injected. When they say studies, they mean short-term studies. They don’t require long-term studies. Monsanto’s own lead toxicologist admitted that glyphosate causes harm when it’s injected. I believe that this is one of the primary reasons for the autism epidemic in America. We gave this information to the administration, and they said they were going to follow up and test for glyphosate in vaccines. I was hoping that information would be in the MAHA report, but it was not. Maybe it may still be pending.

Glyphosate causes harm when it is injected. It might be one of the primary reasons for the autism epidemic in America.

Kennedy said in September 2025, they were going to give a report.

Remembering Zen’s Eldest Son

By the time this comes out, perhaps there will be more information, but right now, we don’t have that information. We’ve been waiting nine years for someone in any administration to do anything about this. It’s difficult to sleep sometimes because we know the amount of chemicals that our kids are being impacted by.

You’re speaking from experience, too. I know.

My eldest son, the one who was the reason for starting Moms Across America with his life-threatening allergies and the one whom I gave almost all of the vaccines to, did get better when we fed him all organic food. He ate all organic except for a little bit of Chipotle for ten years. His health issues got better. He didn’t have to go to a doctor for any type of allergy, chronic autoimmune issue, or anything like that. However, he chose to eat vegan despite the fact that I disagreed with that.

He read the book How Not to Die by Michael Greger when he was fourteen. He also watched the movie Okja, which is about a GMO pig. You get very attached to the pig. They show a slaughterhouse and all that. He didn’t like that. He decided to go vegan. He was vegan for seven years. The levels in his body of the toxins that were primarily from the vegan diet, I believe, are what led to his mental health issues and suicide ideation.

That sounds very disturbing, so I’m going to tell you a little bit more about what we know. We got functional medicine testing and extensive testing the year before he passed because I sensed a change in his mood and behavior. I had heard that people who eat vegan diets often can go into depression, so I tried to preempt that and get testing done.

We did find that he had high levels of thallium. Thallium is a heavy metal that’s industrial. It’s also a tasteless poison that can be used criminally to poison and kill people. I don’t know or believe that that’s what happened because I do know that it can be found in leafy greens. Ben ate a huge salad of leafy greens every day. That may be the source of where he got thallium from. Thallium can cause DNA breakage and mental illness.

He also had very high levels of mycotoxins. Mycotoxins are very commonly found in beans, and he ate two cans of beans every day because he was not eating meat. He had very high levels of candida. We believe that’s because he was taking yeast as a nutritional supplement because he wasn’t getting B12 from meat. He was getting the B12 from the yeast. Candida can lead to mental illness and suicide ideation.

He also had high levels of DDT. We don’t know why that was. That’s a chemical that’s been banned for decades. It can be very toxic. He also had very low levels of cholesterol, which can lead to hormone changes, a lack of production of testosterone, and feeling depressed. He had low levels of other vitamins, too, like vitamin D and E, iron, and other things like that. He did have glyphosate in his body as well. Glyphosate is very problematic, not just because of the toxic, harmful effects in vaccines, but it also reduces the nutrient uptake into the roots and chutes of plants by 80% to 95%.

It gets in the way.

It’s a chelator. It blocks the nutrients in the food, and therefore, you don’t get the nutrients that help your brain function and that help your organs work. You have these very low levels of nutrients in food that normally should be quite nutrient-dense. He wasn’t getting the nutrients that his body needed as well. Glyphosate, back to the mycotoxins, causes the production of mycotoxins in our crops.

Glyphosate, at very low levels, has been shown to cause the production of Aspergillus. The byproduct of Aspergillus, which is a mold, is mycotoxins. The mycotoxins have been connected with mental health issues, depression, and suicide ideation. Glyphosate, even at the drift level, only reduces the nutrient uptake by 80% to 95%. Low levels also cause the growth of mycotoxins.

You mean drift level only, like coming from another far as far?

Drift level only exposure to glyphosate reduces the nutrient uptake into the crop by 80% to 95%. That means we cannot make America healthy again with any use of glyphosate. This is why I am so upset that glyphosate was not mentioned in the MAHA commission report. It’s crucial that glyphosate is discontinued for use if we want to make America healthy again, and the powers that be are fighting this. I understand that it would be very inconvenient for farmers, but suicide, cancer, and our children with chronic health issues are extremely inconvenient as well.

How Farmers Are Transitioning To Organic Farming

I did see in the commission report that they were talking about moving or transitioning farmers over to organic farming. I hope it would mean they would discontinue the use of glyphosate.

I was very happy to see the focus on supporting more organic farming, as well as the formation of a task force that is going to study the environmental impacts on your children. You cannot study environmental impacts without studying glyphosate. It’s the most widely used herbicide in the world. There are indications in a report that there will be further testing, research, and policies perhaps made regarding glyphosate. I believe that the key to that is to support farmers to transition to regenerative organic first. It is having things in place that support them so that they feel that they can make a living.

Our wonderful movie, Food Beware: The French Organic Food Revolution, gives us an actual template. In that movie, in a very small town in Barjac, the mayor saw the spraying of orchards with chemicals. He saw the children getting cancer, and he decided to shift the money from the chemical farmers to the schools and say, “This is for organic food.” He created a guaranteed marketplace of organic food. The farmers switched to organic, and the children were able to have access to organic food.

I would like to see that type of solution here in the United States. I would like to see our children, whether they eat vegan, vegetarian, paleo, keto, carnivore, or a good old-fashioned varied diet incorporating meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, and whole foods, that those types of foods are nutrient-dense and non-toxic. That would require regulation. That would require accountability, responsibility, and testing to ensure that these foods do not have heavy metals, mycotoxins, pesticides, and veterinary drugs and hormones.

You can’t just trust that it’s okay or assume that it’s okay. You have to trust and verify. That’s what needs to happen. I do trust that the farmers can shift because they’re ingenious, and because we have evidence of thousands of years of generations of farmers farming without toxic chemicals and GMOs. I do believe that the farmers can do it. I also believe that they need support. We don’t need to be giving the $90 billion to GMO monocrop chemical farmers. We need to transition.

You cannot just trust or assume that your food is okay. You have to trust and verify.

Finding Glyphosate In Cereals

We’ve got to start wrapping up, but I want to ask you this. A moment ago, you were going to show us some new effort. Is that a new study?

We have conducted some new testing. We did glyphosate, heavy metals, and pesticides. We only have the glyphosate results back on USA, UK, French, and German cereals. The results are very disturbing. France’s Nestlé Cookie Crisp cereal tested at 732 parts per billion. That’s 7,300 times higher than levels that have been shown to cause organ damage and sex hormone disruption. 732 parts per billion of glyphosate in a French children’s cereal. The UK Quaker Oat cereal contained 513 parts per billion of glyphosate. That’s over 500,000 times higher than known to cause levels of harm. That is extremely disturbing as well.

The US cereals were contaminated as well. There were some organic options. Cascadian Farms and another one that were organic versions were positive for glyphosate. Two organic cereals had high levels of glyphosate. You can still find them on our website. With these levels, for instance, the Nestlé Cookie Crisp in France, the 732 is 7 times higher than their maximum residue level that’s allowed in France. That’s an illegal level of glyphosate in their children’s cereal. Germany had very low levels. We were glad to see that. There was only 1 that had about 50 parts per billion.

We were disturbed to find any amount of glyphosate in the cereals in France and Germany. We had hoped there would be none, where we’d say, “Look what they’re doing. How are they doing it, and we’re not doing that? How can we follow their example?” We don’t know if those grains were imported to France to make those cereals. We don’t know if those grains were being sprayed illegally or if there’s a drift level that’s happening. Clearly, more testing needs to be done. We have a global glyphosate problem.

How Can We Advocate For Healthier Food

For the regular person, someone reading, who’s shaking their head. They’re like me. They’re gasping. They’re like, “I can’t believe this is happening.” Is there something we can do apart from eating organic for a family to advocate for more awareness, more testing, and so forth, as you’re suggesting?

Yes. What they can do is to eat less processed food and less cereal for breakfast. That’s one. They can eat more eggs, meat, and protein for breakfast. Japanese people eat vegetables a lot. They eat fermented foods for breakfast.

Also, how can we advocate? What can we do? Who can we contact? I know that there was a protest in front of Kellogg’s. Is that the thing we need to do?

We need to contact our senators and our representatives, and we need to let them know that the use of glyphosate and these toxic chemicals is no longer acceptable. They need to hear from us. They’re hearing from chemical company lobbyists. They’re hearing from farmers. They’re hearing from people who make a lot of money from this agrochemical system. That needs to change. It’s not going to change until more people, unfortunately, experience harm in their families.

I want to circle back to mental illness, depression, and my son’s decision to take his own life. I believe that would not have happened if he hadn’t had these toxins in his body, but finding them means that we can raise awareness with other people. I want every vegan to know that there are massive risks with limiting your diet in that way. There are very beneficial elements of meat, dairy, and eggs, as Weston A. Price Foundation advocates for, that are crucial to the way your brain functions and the way your hormones impact your organs and allow your body to work.

I’m very angry that vegans are not being told this information. They’re also not being advised to get their blood levels tested for these vitamins and minerals. Across the board, I’m angry that food in general in the United States and around the world is not being regulated for these heavy metals, toxins, and pesticides. They’re not testing.

If I can spend a couple thousand dollars to test and find these things in food or in my son’s body, anybody can. The federal government, which has a $7.2 billion budget for the FDA, can test, identify, find the source, and take steps to eliminate these foreign foods. These types of situations are unnecessary and needless early deaths. It has to stop.

Eat Organic, Get Tested, And Start Detoxing

I’m so thankful that you’ve spoken up. I’m so sorry for the loss of your son. I’m grateful that you are a passionate activist on behalf of all of our children and future generations. I’m thankful for that. Thank you for speaking with us. I want to ask you the question I always ask at the end. You’ve probably already answered it. If the reader could do one thing to improve their health, what would you recommend that they do?

I would still say to eat organic. Maybe I should add one thing to that, which is to get tested. What’s in your body? What type of minerals, vitamins, heavy metals, toxins, and pesticides are in your body? Find out what’s in your body, and then detox. That was it. The problem with my son is that he did not believe in supplements. He thought you could get all your nutrients from food. He did not believe in supplements, so even when we found the toxins in his body, he wouldn’t detox. I thought he was taking the supplements, and he wasn’t.

Find out what’s in your body and then take the actions necessary to supplement your body or change your diet. Do what’s necessary. We have to stop assuming that everything is going to be okay, that the food will sort it out, and that nutrients will magically show up in our food. As we’ve told you with the school lunch or the fast food testing, the labs said there were more toxins than nutrients in that food.

We have a nutrient-deficient junk food diet in America. Even though the farmers want to feed the world and even though they’re farming as best they can, drift level exposure of glyphosate alone is causing 80% to 95% less nutrients in our food supply. We are eating junk food. We cannot expect our brains and our organs to function. We can’t expect our bodies, our hormones, and all of that to operate with 80% to 95% less nutrients.

We’re short-changing our bodies.

We have to speak up. We have to tell our elected officials that we cannot continue to allow glyphosate and other toxic chemicals to be used as a drying agent on our crops or on our food altogether. We have to push for whole, organic, non-toxic, nutrient-dense food in our schools. We had the Safe School Meals Coalition, which we’ve done with several other groups.

We have to tell our elected officials that we cannot continue to allow glyphosate and other toxic chemicals to be used as a drying agent on our crops or on our food altogether.

Come to our Moms Connect Calls on Monday nights and join us on those Safe School Meal Coalition calls. Lastly, I would ask everybody to be present with their loved ones. Spend twenty minutes a day, looking into their eyes, talking with them, finding out how they are, and listening to them. That would go a long way in preventing mental health issues.

Thank you.

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Our guest was Zen Honeycutt. Visit her website, Moms Across America, to learn more. A reminder that you can find this shoe on your favorite app. As a matter of fact, click on Follow so you don’t miss a thing. Thank you so much for tuning in. Stay well, and remember to keep your feet on the ground and your face to the sun.

About Zen Honeycutt

Zen Honeycutt is the Founding Executive Director of the non-profit, Moms Across America (MAA), a National Coalition of Unstoppable Moms with the motto “Empowered Moms, Healthy Kids.” And the legislative arm, The Moms Across America Movement. She is also an international speaker and the author of UNSTOPPABLE – Transforming Sickness and Struggle into Triumph, Empowerment, and a Celebration of Community.

More: Moms Across America’s mission is to educate and empower mothers and others with actions and solutions to create healthy communities. Zen Honeycutt and Moms Across America initiated the first glyphosate testing in America, successfully petitioned Costco to remove Roundup from their shelves, supported multiple legislative bills, and have initiated numerous campaigns that have led the way in increasing awareness and massive growth in marketplace offerings of organic food.

Zen has been featured in over a dozen documentaries such as BOUGHT, Secret Ingredients, Modified, and Common Ground, in hundreds of podcasts, and other mainstream and alternative media outlets, such as CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, The Highwire, Aubrey Marcus Podcast, The Culture Apothecary, and NPR. She is a former consumer representative on the Organic Products Advisory Committee to the California Secretary of Agriculture and is a board member of GMOScience.org and the MAHA Moms Coalition.