Your Lawn Is More Toxic Than You Think (+ Non-Toxic Lawn Alternatives) | Zen Honeycutt
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What is glyphosate and how does it affect farming?
If anybody's using glyphosate in America, American farmers are growing junk food. Glyphosate essentially gives a plant AIDS, an autoimmune disease. The normally harmless bacteria in the soil kills the plant because it has an autoimmune disease. And the amount of glyphosate that it takes to do all this is drift level only. We use a lot of glyphosate, 20 million just in our parks and playgrounds, 280 million pounds a year just in our food crops. Cancer is not a choice. Infertility is not a choice. But farming practices are a choice. And so I would like the farmers to consider that more often and now and make a choice that keeps the future generations of our country in mind.
Most Americans can tell you the ingredients in their protein powder. Far fewer can tell you what chemicals are being sprayed on the food they eat, the parks their kids play in, or the fields surrounding their communities. Yet those chemicals may have more impact on our health than almost anything else that we argue about online. Today's conversation takes us deep into pesticides, glyphosate, paraquat, atrazine, fluoride, big ag lobbying, and the growing movement of moms who are demanding answers about what's happening to America's food supply and public health. Joining me for a second time is my friend, Zen Honeycutt, founder and executive director of Moms Across America, author of Unstoppable, Transforming Sickness and Struggle into Triumph, Empowerment in a Celebration of Community, and one of the most influential grassroots voices in the Maha movement.
After watching her own family struggle with serious health challenges, Zen turned personal crisis into a national mission. Her organization, Moms Across America, initiated the very first glyphosate testing in America, successfully petitioned Costco to remove Roundup from its shelves, helped drive awareness about pesticides and toxic exposures, and empowered thousands of parents to become advocates for healthier communities. As always, Zen brings the heat. Watch on the real Alex Clark YouTube channel and Culture Apothecary on Spotify. Please leave a five-star review on Apple or Spotify before we get started. This helps us become more discoverable and look great to prospective guests you'd love for me to have.
Please welcome back Zen Hunnicutt to Culture Apothecary. You've been doing this activism work for how many years? Almost 14 years now. You are so OG. I mean, before Maha was even a blip on the radar, Zen was doing this. So my question for you is to start is like just looking over the landscape here and just culture of the last 14 years of you just, you know, banging on the walls about glyphosate. Do you feel like we're closer than we've ever been to basically glyphosate becoming a household name and people have at least heard about it and kind of know it's not good?
Yes. And you know what the amazing thing is about that is that I think Trump did for glyphosate what the COVID vaccine mandates did for vaccines. Meaning before the COVID vaccine mandates, the only people screaming about vaccines and the risks and all of that were the parents whose children were harmed. And so it was a small subgroup. And then the COVID vaccine mandate thing happened. And all of a sudden, firefighters, policemen, pilots, teachers, you know, all kinds of people were like, wait a second, should we really be being mandated to have these vaccines for our jobs? Right. So there was a huge amount of awareness. It was like a groundswell of awareness about vaccines, whether you like them or not.
Right. There was more awareness there. So when Trump did the glyphosate executive order, which I was extremely upset about, the flip side of that was all of a sudden, all these people knew about glyphosate. They're like, wait a second, a president is making a pesticide a national security asset? What is this? Why is it happening? What is glyphosate, right? So all of a sudden, so many people were aware of glyphosate. In fact, when he tweeted two days later that he was going to let the world know about UFOs and aliens and all that kind of stuff.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is glyphosate and how does it affect farming?
0:00–5:14
2
What health issues are linked to glyphosate exposure?
5:14–7:52
3
How did Zen Honeycutt's activism begin?
7:52–18:19
4
What alternatives to glyphosate exist for farmers?
18:19–20:27
5
What are the implications of the recent executive order on glyphosate?
20:27–25:14
6
How do pesticides impact public health and the environment?
25:14–28:12
7
What actions can individuals take to combat pesticide use?
28:12–38:10
8
How can understanding genetic factors influence dietary choices?
38:10–1:14:41
Speakers
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