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Moms Across America

Moms Across America (MAA) is a US-based 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and empower mothers and others with actions and solutions to create healthy communities. The organization focuses on identifying and testing the toxins in the food supply and environmental harms such as wireless radiation and industrial pollutants.

History: MAA was instigated in Irvine, CA, in December of 2012 after the Prop 37 GMO Labeling initiative did not pass in California. The group’s first initiative was the Moms Across America March to Label GMOs event. The group’s volunteer hosts and supporters joined 179 Independence Day parades in hometowns in 37 states across the nation on July 4, 2013. Within five years of their first event, over 600 MAA leaders initiated over 1000 events in all 50 states to raise awareness about GMOs and toxins in the food supply while promoting the health benefits of organic food. The event reached thousands locally and millions nationally in a single day, sparking a movement of mothers and supporters that passed out over half a million flyers and reached over one million a month on social media.

The organization was founded and directed by Zen Honeycutt, a mother of three young boys whose health recovered when they switched from the standard American diet, which contains GMOs and glyphosate, to non-GMO and organic food. Initial supporters of this nationwide movement included Pamm Larry, Kathleen Hallal, Bob McFarland, the California State Grange (later renamed the California Guild), and thousands of supporters across the United States. The current board members are Carol Grieve, Kelly Ryerson, and Natalie Paffrath. The current advisors are Ruth Westreich, George Klabin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Don Huber, and Beth Lambert.

Notable events:

Zen Honeycutt and Moms Across America initiated the first citizen-funded glyphosate testing project in America in December of 2013. They released results in April 2014 showing glyphosate in tap water, children’s urine, and breast milk at levels thousands of times higher than has been shown to cause sex hormone changes and health issues in animal studies.

Moms Across America received sponsorship to post five separate ads promoting organic food’s benefits on 191 billboards across 13 states and 35 cities from September 2015 to September 2016.

Moms Across America director Zen Honeycutt and representatives spoke before the Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, and Dupont shareholder meetings or with directors 2015-2107. Moms Across America initiated a petition for Costco to stop selling Roundup, which was successful in 2018.

Since the initiation of glyphosate tap water, urine, and breastmilk testing, over 60 countries, hundreds of cities, and school districts have either revoked or restricted the use of glyphosate.

Other groups have tested and found glyphosate in thousands of different types of food, sparking policy change and enormous growth in the organic food movement.

In 2017 Moms Across America tested five childhood vaccines, which likely contained GMO ingredients, for glyphosate, and all five were positive. This could be explained because of the animal ingredients in vaccines ( bovine serum, gelatin made from pig tendons) and the animals being fed GMO grains sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent. Glyphosate residues are absorbed into crops and do not wash off, they absorb into animal tendons, blood, and bones. Glyphosate has been found to be carcinogenic, a reproductive effector, cause nervous system damage, cause liver and kidney disease, damage sperm, and androgenize baby girls.

In October 2022 Moms Across America initiated a National School Lunch testing program, testing 43 school lunch samples from 18 cities in 15 states across the United States. Results were: glyphosate/AMPA found in 95.3% of samples, 29 other, different pesticides found in 74% of samples, 100% of samples had concerning levels of heavy metals, up to 6923 X higher than the EPA's allowable levels in drinking water, 9 samples had veterinary drugs and hormones, and all samples were sorely low in nutrients.

Moms Across America has expanded to Mothers Across the World, with strong ties to Japanese consumer groups and South Korean, Australian, and New Zealand food movements.

Note: Moms Across America support primarily comes from individual supporters, foundations, and fundraising from mom-vetted health solutions that primarily support a healthy gut and body, fulfilling the mission to create healthy communities.

References:

Moms Across America data page: https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/data

About Moms Across America - first parade events- https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/about

National Organic Billboard Campaign: https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/national_health_billboard_campaign

Monsanto shareholder meeting:https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/full_account_of_monsanto_shareholder_meeting

Costco Stops Selling Roundup: https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/costco_stops_selling_roundup2019

Glyphosate test results in a variety of foods and products:https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/glyphosate_testing_results

Glyphosate found in childhood vaccines: https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/glyphosate_found_in_childhood_vaccines

National School Lunch Testing Results: https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/national_school_lunch_testing_program