How Public Doubts About Food Quality Are Fuelling Growth Of Regenerative And Organic Food Production with Zen Honeycutt

Is your food safe to eat? Maybe less so than you think. Guest Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America, shares disturbing findings from her organization’s privately funded food testing in the United States. 

For impact investors, the episode highlights the potential to support and benefit from the small but accelerating movement towards regenerative agriculture.

Testing sponsored by Moms Across America found that foods produced through both industrial and organic farming processes are often contaminated with high levels of glyphosate and residue from other herbicides. These chemicals believed to cause cancer and other diseases. 

The chemicals also include high levels of heavy metals and other neurotoxins, even in school lunches and baby formulas. Organic foods sometimes contain surprising amounts of heavy metals because organic farmers use manure as fertilizer, and the manure is often contaminated by the food livestock eat.   

The solution, Zen says, has three elements: (1) Conduct more privately funded testing of foods. (2)  Educate the public about the health dangers and social costs of the food they eat. (3) Urge the public to pressure food brands to insist their growers use both regenerative and organic production methods. 

 

Mentioned in this Episode

Zen Honeycutt is the founder of Moms Across America and the author of the book Unstoppable. As a well-informed and tenacious mom committed to food safety, Zen has led efforts to test and publicize the contamination in the U.S. and global food supply. Her grassroots organization works with counterparts around the world to raise awareness and promote more healthful, safer food. 

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