The Damaging (& Insidious) Effects Of Glyphosate And What Bayer Is Doing To Avoid Liability With Kelly Ryerson

🖨️ Print post

Glyphosate is a toxic carcinogenic chemical found in RoundUp, a weedkiller that is routinely sprayed on our lawns and crops. But the bad news doesn’t stop there! It is making its way into the food we eat, the air, and the water. Worse still, the maker of glyphosate, Bayer, is working on passing liability shield legislation so that they cannot be sued for the way the poison in their products is affecting the nation!

Today, Kelly Ryerson, known as the Glyphosate Girl, explains why she is working so hard to inform the public about the dangers of glyphosate and the company that wants to protect itself from the fallout of the harm it is causing.

Kelly goes over the legislation that is being considered in various states across the country. She also explains why glyphosate is so damaging, how it personally affected her own life, and how a General Mills whistleblower helped her to connect the dots about it all.

Update: The liability legislation being considered in North Dakota, at the time of the interview, has since been passed in that state.

Visit Kelly’s websites: americanregeneration.org and glyphosatefacts.com

Become a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation (and use the code pod10)

Check out our sponsors: Arvoti and Lumiram

—

Listen to the podcast here

 

Episode Transcript

Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Kelly Ryerson.

We can’t let this one slide. Bayer is working on passing legislation around the United States in various states to protect themselves from liability when customers want to sue them for poisoning them. This is episode 526, and our guest is Kelly Ryerson. She’s known as the Glyphosate Girl. She is a woman focused on defending us from one of the most toxic carcinogenic ingredients that we may ever encounter, and it is routinely sprayed on our lawns and crops.

In this episode, Kelly unpacks what’s going on and why Bayer, the company that makes Roundup, is trying to pass bills in every state to protect them from lawsuits. Among other things, Kelly explains why glyphosate is so damaging, how it personally affected her own life, and how an encounter with a General Mills whistleblower helped her connect the dots about it all. Kelly also explains the scary truth that when glyphosate is taken off the market, more damaging pesticides may take glyphosate’s place.

Before we get into the conversation, I want to invite you to become a member of the Weston A. Price Family. Join hands with us. It’s only $30 for the year. Go to The Weston A. Price Foundation. Click on the Join Now button. By becoming a member using the Code POD10, you may be eligible to win some free gifts. We have partnered with some Weston A. Price-friendly companies who want to offer you a gift of gratitude.

Along the way, you’ll get the peace of mind that comes with helping us support the work, education, research, and activism. Go to The Weston A. Price Foundation, click on the Join Now button, use the code POD10, and join us for only $30 for the year. Thank you so much in advance. We appreciate your partnership, and welcome to the family.

‐‐‐

Welcome to the show, Kelly.

Thank you. I’m so glad this is working out.

Glyphosate And Its Pursuit Of A Liability Shield

Me, too. I am so curious. How is it that the manufacturers of glyphosate are looking for some kind of liability shield similar to what pharmaceutical companies have when it comes to vaccines?

It’s shocking. Hardly anyone knows that it’s even happening, so I’m so glad you want to talk about it. This is a situation that’s been coming for several years. Bayer, which manufactures glyphosate, which is the active ingredient in Roundup, is the most widely used pesticide of all time. You might have seen that there are a lot of cancer lawsuits that are going on because it’s been connected with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

These lawsuits keep coming. There are something like 177,000 outstanding lawsuits still going on. It’s a huge problem that the stock price for Bayer has crashed. They are having major financial difficulties at Bayer because of glyphosate litigation. They stand to go bankrupt. We also have a situation where Paraquat is manufactured by ChemChina, a government-owned chemical company. It is a pesticide that’s very connected to Parkinson’s disease.

I interviewed someone who said she got sick because she was walking barefoot in China, and she got paraquat in her system.

That’s interesting.

It was Nicole Masters. I’m remembering.

This is crazy because they banned Paraquat in China. It wasn’t all that late. It could have happened before they banned it.

Maybe she wasn’t walking in China. Maybe I got that part wrong, but I do know that she absorbed it through her skin. She is the author of For the Love of Soil. She was like, “Why am I so sick?” She thought, “Isn’t it interesting? My life’s mission is to make the soil healthy so we’ll be healthier, and yet I got sick from something that we were spraying all over the place.” How does Paraquat enter into this story?

Paraquat enters. It’s interesting. Chem China is one of the major foreign manufacturers of pesticides. That will stand to benefit from this liability shield. These paraquat lawsuits are exploding throughout the United States. China does not allow for paraquat to be sprayed in China, but they want to be sure they can keep on spraying it here and making us sick with no liability for making us sick with Parkinson’s.

They outlawed it in their own country, but they’re exporting it to us.

They want a liability shield for it.

I’m sure everybody wants a liability shield.

It’s 16,000 different chemicals that will fall under this liability shield, but it is primarily driven by this glyphosate litigation and the power that Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, has. Our entire agriculture system is effectively built upon Bayer’s products, so it gets even more complicated. They’re asking for a liability shield because they are claiming that American agriculture can’t continue if we still have this liability issue.

Do the judges and the people who might pass this legislation, the legislators, believe this argument?

What’s shocking is they tried to pass it first in the Farm Bill and a different spending bill at a federal level, and make it true for all of the United States. It did not get through because we didn’t have a Farm Bill. They’ll try and slide it in again. Every year, we think there should be a Farm Bill, and it’s delayed by two years. It hasn’t passed with that.

It’s a bipartisan push by certain bought-out legislators. They’re clearly being bribed in some way to come to bat for Bear in the Farm Bill. It’s some Democrats and some Republicans. Overall, the sentiment was that Democrats weren’t going to want this liability shield in there, but they were willing to trade more SNAP dollars for potentially having a liability shield and negotiate that. That’s so shortsighted.

These are the wheeling and dealing things that a lot of us aren’t aware of because they happen behind closed doors.

That’s exactly it. That didn’t pass at a federal level. Meanwhile, Bayer’s stock price keeps going down. There’s a new CEO. He comes out and he’s saying, “Something needs to change right now.” They will not put a cancer label. This could all go away by saying, “It has been shown by IARC to cause cancer,” on the side of the glyphosate bottle. They would no longer be sued because they would’ve warned in that case that it could be.

They don’t want to put that on there.

They would rather withdraw their pesticides entirely than put that cancer label on there, which is very interesting. It wasn’t working federally, so they are going state by state to 21 different states and trying to pass it at the state level.

How’s that going?

Fortunately, it has been a big movement. We have gotten some passionate people, a lot of people from the MAHA Movement, who are very aware of what happened with the vaccine liability shield. They have hopped on and they’re making phone calls. We got it defeated in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Montana, I believe, Wyoming, and Iowa. It is in passing there. However, this is on the desk of two governors, the governor of Georgia, Governor Kemp, and the governor of North Dakota, Governor Armstrong. Both have an opportunity to veto this bill that has already passed through their state legislatures.

It has already been approved at one level, and it’s up to them whether they are going to veto it or approve it. That’s so scary. Didn’t you have your people on the ground in those states?

North Dakota is hard because there aren’t that many people, so that’s been harder. People from out of state have been calling a lot. In Georgia, there are a lot of very passionate people. The problem is that Governor Kemp ran on the idea that he wants to decrease mass tort litigation so that lawyers stop getting rich from these kinds of lawsuits.

That’s a problem because that’s what you could consider this in many ways, this big glyphosate lawsuit that tons of lawyers have piled onto to try and get their share. It’s a conflict there. I don’t know what he’s going to do. If anyone out there knows anyone who knows Governor Kemp, tell me because I’ve been talking to family friends of the Kemps and all this stuff, trying to tell him, “You don’t realize this is not a pro-farmer bill. That’s what they’re saying it is.”

How do they frame it that way? What are some of their arguments in that?

They have billboards up. It’s crazy. They have radio ads, which are where most of the farmers listen, and TV ads. They’re saying, “We are here to protect the food supply. You need to have these chemicals. Our farmers need these chemicals in order to feed the world,” the same old argument that’s always made. If you believe in farmers, then you should support this bill.

Meanwhile, I’m thinking of all the farmers I personally know who have cancer, Parkinson’s, or poor Gabe Brown with ALS. It is awful. It is not pro-farmer. It’s frustrating. Will Harris joined for a call. He is a very famous farmer in Georgia. It’s wonderful because he’s willing to speak out about this. The more cotton growers and all that can come out and say, “This is not a pro-farmer bill,” the better.

If your child gets sick with cancer, infertility, and all of these things connected to glyphosate, you will have no recourse to come back and sue the company for damages if they have total liability.

You said Georgia and North Dakota have it nearly passed, but are there others on the horizon, too?

There are. Florida has started going a bit. Fortunately, with Florida, the activists are maybe the most active that there are in this country. When I was asking for volunteers, the list filled out. It was so fantastic. I can’t imagine it passing there because they won’t have it. It has also been proposed in Texas,  Indiana, and Illinois, but I haven’t seen it advance there yet. There’s a whole team that’s watching to see when those bills are introduced so that people can activate.

How Glyphosate Hurts You

Why should people activate? What if I were to say, “It’s just a farming thing. It doesn’t have that much to do with me. Why is glyphosate so bad anyway?” What would you say to that?

It’s so interesting because they’ve made this conversation about farming. It’s so much more than that. For example, in California, there is a pediatric cancer pocket in an area where glyphosate has been sprayed. It’s terrible. This was in a school park. It is horrific. This won’t even apply to that. If your child gets sick with cancer, infertility, or all these things that are connected to glyphosate, then you will have no recourse to be able to come back and sue the company for damages because they will have total liability. Not only that, it’ll be the same thing as it was with the vaccine manufacturers. They have no responsibility. They can make this product more toxic if they want to because they know that there’s no cap to stopping the damage.

They think, “We could keep going because no one’s going to stop us. No one’s going to sue us.” I understand that glyphosate or the weed killer, Roundup, is used more frequently on lawns than on farms. In other words, in terms of quantity, it’s used most commonly on lawns.

The vast majority is agriculture. 10% is on parks, lawns, and schools. When you think about the actual land that’s being used, that’s much more broadly spread, not where it’s highly populated on farms. We’re impacted by the food we eat, but when you think about the actual dermal contact, which is how a lot of these people get cancer, and you see kids walking around barefoot or touching things, and you know it’s going right through their skin, it’s so upsetting. Dog and cat lymphoma is also through the roof.

That’s true. I’m like, “Why are our pets getting cancer?” I’ve been asking myself that question.

A lot of vets think that it’s because the dogs and cats are walking on the sidewalk and ground where the glyphosate has been sprayed. When it impacts the skin, so the absorption through the skin, those animals became very sick with cancer in the studies. You think about our poor little pups and everything walking on this. It’s the same thing up through their paws.

Even if you’re not walking in the soil or even if you’re not a farmer, when we eat wheat, sometimes it’s been sprayed with glyphosate to help desiccate it so that it can be milled and then turned into the bread that we eat. People are getting a lot of glyphosate in their system. I understand that when you do a urine analysis in some families in some households, they’ve got glyphosate in their urine.

Even if I eat fully organically, it goes down, but I still have some.

How do you know?

You can do a urine test through HRI Labs. Dr. John Fagan is there. He’s a brilliant toxicologist. You can go to the website and send in your sample, and he can tell you where your levels are. You can watch it over time, and then you send in a second sample. What’s shocking is that during my investigation, I started madwondering, because glyphosate is everywhere, whether or not it’s in semen, because I’d seen a study that it kills sperm. I’d been concerned about this 50% decrease in sperm counts, so I sent in 3 different semen samples from 3 different guys.

All three came back positive for glyphosate in the semen. We know that it kills sperm. I dug further and talked to some researchers. They said, “It’s been shown to cross the blood-testis barrier. Fortunately, I told Bobby Kennedy about this. He’s aware. I went to the EPA last September 2024 because they had made a fraudulent claim that there’s no endocrine disruption from glyphosate exposure. They based it fully on industry research.

Why would they say that?

I said, “Here’s the list. Can I have these studies?” They said, “They’re proprietary to Bayer Monsanto.” It’s terrible. They’re connected. It’s connected with miscarriages, a decrease in estrogen, a decrease in testosterone, and semen issues. We have such a fertility crisis in this country. It’s so shocking that this continues. I know that they know at Monsanto because some of the internal documents we’re talking about are connected to women’s fertility.  It makes me so mad. The heartbreak of not being able to have a child, and many of my friends have suffered with that. I can’t stand it. Knowing this information and knowing why it’s happening.

If glyphosate’s liability shield gets passed in certain states, it will immediately halt lawsuits.

Going back to where we might come in contact with it,  it’s in the soil and our food. I’ve heard it’s also in the air. Is that right?

It is in the air, particularly if you’re in an area that’s been sprayed. It also ends up in the rain because it collects, and then it is rained down on us. It’s also in our water supply. A lot of municipalities don’t even test for it. In fact, I don’t even know if any. You’re exposed to that. You’re also exposed to any cotton products that are not organic. Things like tampons, pads, and diapers can have glyphosate in them. Oh.

How Kelly Became Active In This Fight

This is so crazy. I can understand your concern, but tell me personally what motivated you to get involved in this issue about glyphosate and this possible liability shield.

I became interested because I had an autoimmune condition. It was autoimmune-like and not diagnosable. I knew that I felt horrible. I was layered with medications to try and help all my many symptoms. It was terrible. I finally started turning a corner when I gave up gluten and started eating clean. I did a deep dive into gluten sensitivity and the increase in it.

I went to a conference at Columbia University where they were talking about this increased incidence of gluten sensitivity. I’m like, “What the heck?” They said, “We don’t even know if it’s gluten. We think it might be something else.” I’m like, “I wonder if it’s something on the farm.” I went up and asked the question, “Could it be something that’s on the farm?” They said no. Someone from General Mills found me at the conference and said, “You should check it out because Roundup is sprayed on our oats, our wheat, and all these grains right before harvest. You might want to see.”

Why would that person tell you that?

He was a whistleblower. Isn’t that amazing? I was like, “What are you talking about? Roundup? The kinds at Home Depot? We’re eating it? Don’t you think that’s connected?” He’s like, “I don’t know.” Around that time, the cancer litigation was starting in San Francisco, where I live. I went up because I was going to protest Monsanto. I ended up finding no protestors and no journalists.

I walked right into the courtroom and sat down with Bobby Kennedy, who was suing. I was like, “I am Kelly.” I didn’t know who he was. I then realized no one was going to be covering the day-to-day, so I quit my job at the time and named myself Glyphosate Girl. It tried to stay anonymous and wrote every day all these horrible things that the EPA was doing, including with Monsanto. I knew it was never going to make it to mainstream media.

That courtroom that you walked into, was that the school landscaper?

Yes. Lee Johnson.

Tell us his story a little bit. Remind me.

It’s so sad. He was a landscaper, or he was a pesticide applicator for schools. In his school district in California, he would go and apply it. He had a few accidents where the backpack sprayer had a leak. He went and washed it off. He very rapidly developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a severe, awful case of it.

When he did that spraying, did he have to wear almost a hazmat suit?

Yes. He had one, but it goes right through it. Even when he washed it off quickly after, it was too late. It’s shocking. He tried to call Monsanto during that time to their doctor who was there and said, “I see some evidence that it might be connected to my cancer. What do you think?” They didn’t get back to him, and then they saw him in court.

Everybody is bringing their litigation to the fore because they’ve also been affected, probably.

I have lots of people reach out to me and are like, “My parent died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. They sprayed it all the time. What do you think?” It’s bad.

What Happens If The Liability Pushes Through

This liability shield, if it gets passed in certain states, will it have any way to stop these lawsuits, or is that unstoppable?

 

It will stop it. It will halt it immediately if these are passed. There’ll be no more cancer lawsuits. Anyone’s opportunity to get any kind of recourse is gone.

I know you don’t have a crystal ball, but what do you expect to happen? Do you think Bayer slash Monsanto is going to keep pushing for this liability shield, even in the states where it’s been defeated?

It’s interesting because the Senate and Congress, not all of them, but with 17 senators and probably close to 40 maybe Congress people they wrote a letter to Kennedy, Brooke Rollins, who’s head of the USDA, and Lee Zeldin, who’s head of the EPA. He begged them not to listen to any of the activists and their shoddy science when it comes to pesticides.

Not to listen to any of the activists because what?

We all present this shoddy science, and it will lead to horrible health in the United States. This is what they’re saying. I’m like, “This is helpful now we have the list of who’s bought off by Bayer.” It’s so obvious. I couldn’t even believe my eyes. This is all tied because they’re losing these liability shield things in the states. They’re like, “What are we going to do now we have to come back and get Congress to pressure our regulators, which, in this administration, they do not have the same grip on. Bayer does not have the same grip on Kennedy, and I don’t think with either of the other two either. They’re freaking out.

The CEO came out and said, “We may be pulling glyphosate from the United States.” I was like, “What happens in that case?” I founded a group called American Regeneration. We’re working on getting different policies passed in the government. We were doing this brainstorming exercise. We were like, “If glyphosate is pulled, this will be mayhem because all the GMO seeds are connected to it.” This is so interesting. It’s a brilliant system that Monsanto developed. They are called Roundup Ready GMOs. Most of the GMOs that we grow in this country are resistant to the effects of Roundup and glyphosate.

You want those crops to stay strong, and you want to kill the weeds with Roundup, right?

Exactly. You can spray a field, and the crops keep growing, and the weeds around the crops will die because they are not resistant to glyphosate. This is true for our corn, our soy, and our cotton. This is going to be a huge thing not to have glyphosate, and they know that. It’s interesting watching this. We were going through the mind exercise. Let’s say they did pull it because Bayer doesn’t want to go bankrupt. Then what? Are we going to use biologicals for our soil? How do we rapidly start regenerating? A lot of the replacement pesticides are much more expensive than glyphosate, so it would be cost-prohibitive. It’s a fascinating thing to watch.

Do you think that’s possible?

I would’ve said never ever, but I’m wondering maybe so.

My concern, honestly, is that it will be replaced with something that’s as damaging, but we don’t know it yet.

That could be true. What happened is that the Roundup product that you buy at Home Depot, they pulled glyphosate from it because most of these lawsuits are from home users. They pulled glyphosate, but the actual new toxicity of the new Roundup product is 40 times more toxic than what it was with glyphosate.

What’s in there? Do you know?

They put in diquat, which is a worse, more toxic pesticide than glyphosate.

What are they thinking? They’re looking for a loophole to keep those products on the shelves.

Most people don’t even know they’ve replaced the chemical. It’s the same bottle. They changed one of the ingredients that’s listed there. That’s it.

These people applying it to their lawns at home certainly are not doing what Lee did. They’re not putting on a hazmat suit. They’re doing it because they don’t know any different. They’re not protecting themselves is what I’m getting at.

It is quite stressful for people to assess what they are doing in their own yard, in their own life, and in their own diet.

It’s what they do when they plant their spring gardens. They’re like, “Here’s the thing.” You see people out in shorts and stuff, and you see it blowing up. When I see it, I go over and warn them. I’m the crazy neighbor. You don’t want that.

This reminds me of a big scandal some years ago about BPA, a certain chemical in plastic that people were saying was an endocrine disruptor. It’s been replaced by BPF and BPS, which are nearly identical in how they affect our genes, but this is worse.

The herbicide that is the second most used is called atrazine. If you don’t know about atrazine, it’s more disturbing than glyphosate. It’s banned everywhere else. We still spray it. It’s in drinking water. Have you ever heard of the frogs turning gay?

I’ve heard that.

That is Tyrone Hayes, who is a scientist at Berkeley. He found it to be so severely endocrine-disrupting that there was a full, massive endocrine disruption in sexuality. That is why Europe banned it. It was our number one most-used pesticide until glyphosate came along. If that suddenly gets a boost, that’s also not good.

Speaking of Europe, I’ve heard people say over and over again, “I went to Italy. I ate pasta and bread to my heart’s content. I was fine.” Do you think it’s the glyphosate factor?

It’s multifaceted. Glyphosate is part of it. They are much less frequent pre-harvest desiccators. You have been legally allowed to do it, but a lot of farmers haven’t. You have a different fermentation process. When you let the wheat naturally dry on the field as it should, it has time to become less inflammatory.

When you’re hastening harvest and spraying it, the gluten itself stays more inflammatory and more damaging to our bodies. A lot of times, it’s as simple as that, letting the wheat do its natural thing as we always had. I’m going to France. I’m so excited because I’m one of those people. I can eat gluten there and be fine.

We always think that we can improve on Mother Nature and make things more efficient, cost-effective, and all the things. It was in which, for example, we fatten cattle, but then it ends up being detrimental to the beast and to us. In this case, we’re thinking, “Let’s improve on Mother Nature. Let’s speed up this desiccation process.” We’re messing things up.

We’re messing things up so much. This only started in 2005, the pre-harvest desiccation. When you look at the numbers of the chronic disease, not just me but many scientists are looking and are like, “This is connected.” Understand also that glyphosate is an antibiotic. It kills beneficial gut bacteria while allowing detrimental bacteria to proliferate. It’s a weird antibiotic, and that only hits the good stuff.

We have this huge crash in bifidobacteria in these other very important things. It’s one of those things like, “This is a low-hanging fruit. Can you change this pre-harvest spraying issue and stop it?” 80% of our dietary exposure is from pre-harvest desiccation. 80%, at least. It could be more. You think that would be so easy. All you need to do is get swathers back into the hands of the farmers, do it like you did in 2005, and restore our health.

We’re together because we were at the big press event at HHS, where Kennedy was saying, “We are going to be phasing out petroleum-based dyes in our food system.” He wanted to see glyphosate.

I’m so wanting glyphosate phased out, too. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? My recommendation to them was, “Can we get pre-harvest desiccation out? Is this something that everyone could agree with? There might be an appetite for it, which is great, because it’s not touching the GMO situation that’s so entrenched in subsidies and everything. It is its own thing.

Addressing The Doubts And Naysayers

It’s a separate thing. I’m curious. As we start to wrap up, do you have that neighbor person saying, “Leave me alone. I know what I’m doing.” I love to see my tulips come out without any weeds around them.” Other people think you’ve taken it too far.

I’m pretty sure that I know that they think that I have. I live in a suburb. My front lawn is not big, but I did pull it out, so I have veggies growing. I’m the only one in the neighborhood who has that. I have a big sign that says No Pesticides. My kids are mortified. It’s like a big scene. There are some people who love it. They’re like, “How are you doing that?”

I’m doing my own little mini regenerative situation. I tolerate weeds. I’m like, “That’s fine. That’s part of nature,” which we all need to wrap our heads around. It is hard. I’m not going to lie. I have lost friends over this issue. It’s a stressful thing for people to feel judged when they know what I do. I hate that because I don’t judge. It makes people assess what they’re doing in their own yard, their own life, or what they’re eating. It makes people stressed.

I’m sure the reader can relate. I know I can. By making a simple food choice, suddenly, the people around me feel threatened, like I’m giving them a hard time. It is not about them at all. It is for myself and staying healthy. That makes me feel bad because you never want to shame other people. You want to make the healthiest choice you can. You’re trying to help other people be empowered with knowledge, which I love.

 

That’s what I’m trying. I can speak from my own experience that cleaning up my diet and the gluten-free thing was completely life-changing. I was maybe on an early death path. It was so extreme how sick I was. I’m looking, and I see people coming down with these severe autoimmune conditions or whatever it is. It’s very hard. I can see what they’re putting in their body and know what’s happening.

Have you worked at all with Zen Honeycutt? I know she’s done some investigation about the levels of glyphosate even in our school lunches.

In fact, we have spent a lot of time in DC together, going from office to office and talking about glyphosate, fertility, cancer, and the toxicity of our food supply. It’s interesting. We do feel like we have some takers when we convey that information. JD Vance’s Chief of Staff is my very favorite. I’m glad he kept going with JD Vance. We met with him, and he was a sponge. He was writing every last detail and shaking his head like, “This is terrible. The senator’s going to be very interested in this.” When I see JD Vance, I’m like, “I know he knows,” and it makes me relieved.

How does your family feel? Your children, know you said they’re embarrassed by the little No Pesticide sign. Are you feeding them the way you fed yourself? Are you keeping them alert about what’s going on with this issue?

I am so excited because I’ve been a nagging parent. My son is a freshman at the University of Michigan. He is an opinion columnist for the Michigan Daily, and he is the MAHA Regenerative Farming columnist. He has been writing about these things, and I am so excited to see it. When they were growing up, I was so annoying, and then he suddenly started saying, “Hey.” Maybe there’s something to it. I’m like, “It stuck.”

My daughter, on the other hand, was embarrassed. because the school newspaper reached out to her and said, “We’re doing a story on students who have ingredient households.” I was like, “No.” She was like, “Mom, they know that we’re an ingredient household. No processed foods in there.”

That’s so funny. Maybe she’ll come around in a few years, too, and be proud of that and wear that badge proudly.

There we go. You will always have hope.

Kelly’s Health Tip: Get A Water Filter

As we wrap up, I want to pose you the question I love to pose at the end. If the reader could only do one thing to improve their health, it may be related to avoiding glyphosate or not, but if they could do one thing to improve their health, what would you recommend that they do?

The number one thing you can do is get a water filter. I am so passionate. I tell as many people as I can, “I have an under-the-counter water filter from Clearly Filtered. It takes out atrazine, glyphosate, and all these things that a lot of these water filters don’t even test for.

I imagine they wouldn’t.

I had to look far and wide, and I finally found this one. It was interesting because I filled my dog’s water bottle with water bowl with this new water. I have never seen them drink so much. I was like, “They’re loving this so much.” I was like, “You guys can tell this is super clean water.”

That’s awesome.

Isn’t that amazing? We will filter our water and pay attention to these chemicals that may not even be measured by our current filters.

Thank you for your time. On behalf of the Weston A. Price Foundation, it’s been a pleasure.

It’s so great. Thank you.

—

Our guest was Kelly Ryerson. For more information, you can visit her website, American Regeneration. For a review from Apple Podcasts, Pania81 says this, “I love this podcast. This podcast helps me continue learning about my health and how important the correct foods and practices are in my everyday life. I am an avid listener and member. Thank you for continuing to bring this information.”

It is my pleasure. Thank you so much for leaving us this review. You, too, can leave us a rating and review.  Go to Apple Podcasts and click on the stars. Give us as many as you like and tell the world what the show has done for you. I am so thankful for you. Thank you for tuning in. Stay well, and remember to keep your feet on the ground and your face to the sun.

 

About Kelly Ryerson

Kelly Ryerson works at the intersection of agriculture and health. She regularly collaborates with regenerative farmers, scientists, policymakers and media to address agrochemical damage to our soil and bodies. Kelly is the co-Executive Director of American Regeneration and also founded the news site Glyphosate Facts. Kelly has contributed to numerous podcasts, publications, and documentaries including the recent award winning documentary Common Ground. She is an Ambassador for The Rodale Institute. Kelly has a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and completed training in integrative health coaching at Duke Integrative Medicine.

 

 

Important Links

• American Regeneration
• Glyphosate Facts
• For the Love of Soil
• Become a member of The Weston A. Price Foundation (and use the code pod10)

 

Episode Sponsors

• Arvoti
• Lumiram

 

 

🖨️ Print post