The Attack on Food Symposium + Solutions to Fight Back

The Attack on Food Symposium and Solutions to Fight Back

PROGRAMME GUIDE

Saturday, March 4 — 9am PT | 12pm ET

Hosted by Meryl Nass, M.D. Presented by Children's Health Defense TV

Opening Remarks

Session 1 Attacks on Food & Agriculture — Alexis Baden-Mayer | Benjamin Dobson | André Leu | Abby Rockefeller | Patrick Wood | James Corbett | Joe Mercola | Stephanie Seneff

Session 2 Solutions for Farmers — | Ronnie Cummins | André Leu | Mark Fulford | Bonnie Mallard

Session 3 Solutions for Individuals — | John Day | Beverly Johannson | Sara Woods Kender | Zen Honeycutt

Session 4 Societal Solutions — | Alexis Baden-Mayer | Heather Retberg | Ben Banks-Dobson

Show Links:

Demonstration Farms

Jubilee Justice Rodale Institute Polyface Farms Adam Chappell Adam Chappell TW Stone House Farm OCA Farm Map Billion Agave Project Regeneration International Organic Consumers Association

Community Connections

Weston A. Price Foundation Raw Milk Finder Neighborhood Food Network CSA Finder: Local Harvest Farmish App Farm Match Worldwide Opportunities of Organic Farms

Sovereignty

Food Freedom Foundation Maine Food Sovereignty Law Maine Food Sovereignty Law Legislative Document

Rep. Thomas Massie’s Bills:

Prime Act Interstate Milk Freedom Act

Alexis Baden-Mayer is a lawyer who has worked since 2005 as the Political Director of the Organic Consumers Association, a network of more than 1 million activists committed to creating a healthy, just, democratic and regenerative food system. Alexis is a key organizer of some of OCA's most popular campaigns, including the ‘Monsanto Makes Us Sick’ campaign to ban Roundup. Alexis isn't afraid to put her body on the line to call attention to the crisis in our food system.

In 2014, the US Health Freedom Congress awarded Alexis a Health Freedom Award for direct actions she's taken that resulted in her arrest, including shutting down the National Organic Standards Board meeting to protest the weakening of organic standards and entering the White House grounds to deliver a petition to First Lady Michelle Obama in support of GMO labels, one of Barack Obama's unfulfilled campaign pledges. Alexis's proudest moment as an activist came in 2016 when Bernie Sanders tweeted a CSPAN video clip of her dumping ‘Monsanto Money’ on the Senate floor to protest the corrupting influence of money in politics. Prior to COVID, Alexis was focused on Farm Bill reform and advocating for a Green New Deal that recognized regenerative organic agriculture as an essential climate solution.

Since COVID, Alexis has been investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 in “gain-of-function research,” a euphemism for genetically engineered bioweapons. She quickly learned that COVID wasn’t the first Plandemic. Precursors include the West African Ebola crisis of 2014, the 2001 anthrax attacks on the U.S. Senate (traced by the FBI back to U.S. biological weapons labs at Fort Detrick), and the 1976 swine flu scamdemic, the first time a pharmaceutical company, Merck (which launched the U.S. biological weapons program under President Franklin Roosevelt) was granted liability protections for a vaccine.

Alexis is currently exposing the merging of the agribusiness, pharmaceutical and biological weapons industries evidenced by the merger of Bayer and Monsanto, as well as the recent purchase of Metabiota by Ginkgo Bioworks.

Alexis is the host of Good Vibes Healing with Dr. Henry Ealy and The New MDS: Mothers, Doctors & Scientists with Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America, Dr. Michelle Perro and Dr. Stephanie Seneff. Alexis is a board member of the Virginia Chapter of Children’s Health Defense and a volunteer with COVIDorigins.org and CHD affiliate Health Choice Maryland.

Ben Dobson is the founder and president of Hudson Carbon where he facilitates the implementation of regenerative organic food and agro-ecological systems that provide healthy food for people, and positive ecological outcomes. Born on an organic farm in Hillsdale, New York, and has twenty years of experience operating organic farms at various scales in many settings.

From 2014 through 2020 Ben planned, implemented, and managed the transition of three thousand acres of conventional farmland in New York’s Hudson Valley to a regenerative organic grain and livestock system. This work resulted in the development of a local and organic grain supply chain that plays a critical role in the local food system in the Hudson Valley and western New England.

In 2018 Ben co-founded Hudson Hemp, demonstrating a regenerative organic model to the hemp industry and an important new crop to farms in his region. He continues his work with Hudson Hemp as a member of the board.

These experiences have informed the development of Hudson Carbon and its ability to use scientific methodologies to quantify and value the ecosystem services provided by regenerative organic farms and ecosystems as a means to bring financial value to these critical ecological assets.

Ben lives in Sheffield, Massachusetts with his wife Nalise Dobson and their five children.

Hudson Carbon Description

Hudson Carbon is a public benefit corporation dedicated to adoption of regenerative agricultural practices and systems, and their powerful potential to mitigate climate change, reverse environmental degradation, and rebuild communities across the globe.

We envision an economy based on ecosystems and the services they provide to the communities within them; a world in which regenerative agriculture is meeting the world’s demand for healthy food; and a world in which farmers are compensated for not only what they grow, but how they grow it.

We believe that integrated, bioregional food systems with regenerative organic supply chains are the best way to improve human health, bring proper function to ecosystems, and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.

Hudson Carbon was founded and built by farmers dedicated to harmonizing agriculture and ecology within a new economic model. Our leadership team is rooted in a deep understanding of agricultural systems, soil science, ecology, and environmental economics.

We identify regenerative agricultural systems and ecological management practices that have the greatest potential to protect biodiversity, sequester carbon, improve hydrological cycles, reduce methane levels, and limit nutrient pollution.

We then combine our agricultural and ecological management experience with state of the art in field technology, remote sensing, AI, and other innovative approaches to develop foundational datasets and management strategies that result in development of ecological assets, and payment for ecosystem services.

Hudson Carbon is currently managing projects in New York, Vermont, Montana, and Mexico and has partnered with the Regenerative Food Network to provide a holistic framework for the development of farmer owned regenerative supply chains that provide healthy food for people, positive ecological outcomes, and financial stability for farmers and land stewards.

Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda, Transhumanism and Technocracy. He is the author of The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism (2022), Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order (2018), Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.

Abby Rockefeller is a long time organic grower and recently the maker of a raw milk dairy.

The Corbett Report is edited, webmastered, written, produced and hosted by James Corbett. An award-winning investigative journalist, James Corbett has lectured on geopolitics at the University of Groningen's Studium Generale, and delivered presentations on open source journalism at The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation's fOSSa conference, at TedXGroningen and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series.

Dr. Mercola is a board certified family physician who is passionate about natural healing and exposing the fraud and corruption in the medical field. He founded the most visited natural health site on the web, Mercola.com 26 years ago and has authored 17 bestselling books.

Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She has a BS degree from MIT in biology and MS, EE and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science. Her recent interests have focused on the role of toxic chemicals and micronutrient deficiencies in health and disease, with a special emphasis on the pervasive herbicide, glyphosate, and the mineral, sulfur. Since 2008, she has authored over three dozen peer-reviewed journal papers on these topics. She is the author of a book on glyphosate, titled ‘Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment,’ which was released by Chelsea Green publishers on July 1 2021. This book was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best non-fiction books of 2021.

Ronnie Cummins is co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and its international affiliates Via Organica (Mexico) and Regeneration International (OCA) is a non-profit, U.S. based network of two million consumers, dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and land use. The OCA’s primary strategy is to work on national and global campaigns promoting health, justice, and climate stability that integrate public education, marketplace pressure, media work, litigation, and grassroots lobbying.

Cummins has been active as a writer and activist since the 1960s, with extensive experience in public education, grassroots mobilization, and marketplace pressure campaigns. In 2009 Cummins co-founded Via Organica, a network of organic consumers and farmers based in Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. In 2015 Cummins co-founded Regeneration International, a global network dedicated to mitigating and reversing climate change through regenerative food, farming and land use. Cummins is a frequent lecturer, both in the US and abroad as well as a regular contributor to online publications such as Organic Bytes, Mercola.com, and Regeneration International. Cummins is the author of a series of children’s books called Children of the World, as well as the book Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers (Marlowe & Company 2004). His 2020 book, Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal was published by Chelsea Green. Cummins’ latest book (Chelsea Green April 2021) The Truth About COVID-19, co-authored with Dr. Joseph Mercola, with an Introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, became an international best-seller on Amazon

Cummins lives with his wife and 25-year-old son in Finland, Minnesota and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Dr. André Leu is the International Director of Regeneration International, an organization that promotes food, farming, and land-use systems that regenerate and stabilize climate systems, the health of the planet, and people. Regeneration International has over 500 partners in 70 countries and works with numerous agricultural systems such as agroecology, organic, permaculture, ecological agriculture, holistic grazing, biological agriculture, organic agriculture, and agroforestry.

André is an expert in these fields, having spent over 50 years as an organic farmer specializing in tropical fruits. He has also spent more than 45 years working and visiting countries in the development of new crop systems across Asia, Europe, North American, South America, and Africa.

Andre has published three books entitled ‘Growing Life,’ ‘Poisoning our Children’ and the ‘Myths of Safe Pesticides,’

He has published extensively in magazines, newspapers, scientific journals, conference proceedings, newsletters, and websites and numerous media interviews for TV, radio, and online systems.

He lectures and teaches at universities, institutions, and workshops worldwide. He speaks at conferences, seminars, workshops, and United Nations events on every continent. He meets with governments, United Nations bodies, industry, farmers, consumers, and NGOs on the multi-functional benefits of regenerative agriculture.

Qualifications: Doctorate of Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resources, Rajamangala University of Technology, Chonburi, Thailand, 2022 Graduate Diploma in Adult Education, University of Technology Sydney, 1992
Bachelor of Arts Communications, with a Double Major in Social-Political Theory and Video Production, University of Technology Sydney, 1989

André and his wife Julia live on their organic tropical fruit farm in Daintree, Australia.

Mark Fulford is an independent farmer, farm consultant & boots-on-the-ground trouble shooter and Ag educator. Farming In Waldo County, Maine since 1979 Working till present promoting alternatives to mainstream agriculture in service of food sovereignty and soil repair. Currently developing Systems of Crop Intensification with local and global organizations while mentoring new farmers. Presenter, field researcher, and writer for revealing and healing the many missteps of corporate driven agriculture. Providing field days for hands on agricultural skills. Active throughout US and Puerto Rico, Globally travelled and self educated to bring truth and fresh approaches to farmers seeking self determination and farm integrity. Dedicated to exposing the willful destruction of our soils, water sheds, local and global food supplies. Promoting the removal of middlemen and agency interference as farmers seek to tell the real story of food production to consumers.

Dr. Mallard is Professor of Immunology and Immunogenetics; Dept Pathobiology, at the University of Guelph, Canada; CEO ImmunoCeutica Inc. With an undergraduate degree in agriculture, an MSc in quantitative genetics and animal breeding, along with a Ph.D. in immunogenetics, Professor Mallard is well positioned to discuss the impact of genetic and genomic regulation of the immune system on resistance to infectious disease in mammals. Her research focuses mainly on preventative approaches to improve health that are sustainable for the environment and that enhance both human and animal well-being.

John Day MD is a 64 year old Family Practice doctor, who has devoted his career to public health, including work on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, Rural Texax and Rural Hawaii and inpatient Psychiatry in the Texas State Hospital System, and Obstetrics, including teaching and supervising Family Practice Physicians in Training as an Obstetrical Fellow and a Family Practice Faculty Member.

He is the grateful Husband of Jenny, a School Librarian, Proud Father of four young adults: Holly, an Internal Medicine Physician, Steve and Jim, both Engineers, and Amber, who is a Mathemagician, with two Masters Degrees, and is who getting paid to do a PhD in Statistics.

He was an early treating physician at his federally qualified public health clinic in Austin, initially using hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, zinc and vitamin-D, until forbidden to prescribe hydroxychloroquine in August 2020, when the first good medical-studiy on ivermectin, zinc and doxycycline, with vitamin-D came out from Bangladesh, and he was able to treat people with that effective combination.

He was fired for COVID "vaccine" refusal on moral grounds, the creation of a lesser class of humans, while planting the winter vegetables in the garden he kept for his coworkers at the clinic, in October 2021.

He has been vegetable gardening since 2013, and has worked out a flexible succession-rotation gardening protocol , which helps keep pests and disease from building up in the beds, and puts some nitrogen into each bed every third year.

Since being fired he has been building in the "dream house" he designed and general contracted on, since the basic external structure was completed in early 2022. He learned a lot and it's now "finished".

Beverley Johansson is not your typical farmer! She started growing vegetables at the age of 60, with no prior gardening experience. Beverley grew up in the UK and Australia, studied Psychology at London University and took her MBA at Harvard Business School. She worked at Esso Petroleum in the UK and ran her own headhunting company in Sweden. In 2017, she and her husband moved to a small town north of Stockholm, Sweden, where they decided to learn about growing vegetables. They run a 500 sq m vegetable garden, have egg laying chickens and are now self-sufficient in fruit, vegetables and eggs.

Sara Woods Kender is a NH native, Clinical Herbalist, Reiki Master. She lives in an off-grid homestead with her husband of 22 years, two daughters, two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, and lots of chickens. She is an avid wild forager of medicinal plants and mushrooms and owns and operates an herbal Apothecary in her community. She has been practicing and teaching herbal medicine for over 15 years and specializes in heart and circulatory issues, Lyme Disease, digestive issues, and endocrine imbalances. Sara has formulated her own protocol for COVID and has empowered many along their path to health.

Zen Honeycutt, Founding Executive Director of Moms Across America, an 11 year old non-profit National Coalition of Unstoppable Moms. With the motto “Empowered Moms, Healthy Kids,” Moms Across America grew rapidly in just the first five years, with over 600 leaders that created 1,000+ community events in all 50 states to raise awareness about GMOs, toxins in the food supply and the benefits of organic. Zen has three boys with allergies and autism symptoms which greatly improved when they went GMO-Free and organic. She shared her journey in her book UNSTOPPABLE, Transforming Sickness and Struggle into Triumph, Empowerment, and Celebration of Community published in both the USA and Japan. Zen instigated the first consumer-funded glyphosate testing in America which sparked policy change in over 60 countries and hundreds of cities and towns in America. Costco stopped selling Roundup after MAA supporters petitioned them, and Monsanto, after years of consumer activ- ism and lawsuits, has paid out over 12 billion dollars to plaintiffs. Zen is a firm believer that con- sumer activism makes a difference and her organization works to empower community leaders to be global game changers Zen was also the director of a short film called “Communities Rising” and recently launched a new non-profit pilot program called “The Neighborhood Food Network” to create national food security, one street at a time.

U.S. Representative Thomas Massie entered Congress in November 2012 after serving as Lewis County Judge Executive. He represents Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District which stretches across Northern Kentucky and 280 miles of the Ohio River. U.S. Representative Massie attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. During school, he invented a technology that enabled people to interact with computers using their sense of touch and leveraged that technology to found SensAble Technologies, Inc., which raised over $32 million of venture capital, created 70 jobs, and obtained 29 patents. The hardware and software he developed is now used to design automobiles, jewelry, shoes, dental prosthetics, and even reconstructive implants for wounded soldiers. In Congress, Thomas serves on two committees: the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure and the House Judiciary Committee. The House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure has jurisdiction over roads, bridges, mass transit, railroads, aviation, maritime and waterborne transit. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over laws that affect intellectual property, industrial hemp, civil liberties, firearms, and other topics that were among the reasons Thomas ran for Congress! Thomas lives on a cattle farm in Kentucky with his wife and high school sweetheart, Rhonda, and they have four children. He’s honored to be able to serve the citizens of Kentucky’s 4th District.

Alexis Baden-Mayer is a lawyer who has worked since 2005 as the Political Director of the Organic Consumers Association, a network of more than 1 million activists committed to creating a healthy, just, democratic and regenerative food system. Alexis is a key organizer of some of OCA's most popular campaigns, including the ‘Monsanto Makes Us Sick’ campaign to ban Roundup. Alexis isn't afraid to put her body on the line to call attention to the crisis in our food system.

In 2014, the US Health Freedom Congress awarded Alexis a Health Freedom Award for direct actions she's taken that resulted in her arrest, including shutting down the National Organic Standards Board meeting to protest the weakening of organic standards and entering the White House grounds to deliver a petition to First Lady Michelle Obama in support of GMO labels, one of Barack Obama's unfulfilled campaign pledges. Alexis's proudest moment as an activist came in 2016 when Bernie Sanders tweeted a CSPAN video clip of her dumping ‘Monsanto Money’ on the Senate floor to protest the corrupting influence of money in politics. Prior to COVID, Alexis was focused on Farm Bill reform and advocating for a Green New Deal that recognized regenerative organic agriculture as an essential climate solution.

Since COVID, Alexis has been investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 in “gain-of-function research,” a euphemism for genetically engineered bioweapons. She quickly learned that COVID wasn’t the first Plandemic. Precursors include the West African Ebola crisis of 2014, the 2001 anthrax attacks on the U.S. Senate (traced by the FBI back to U.S. biological weapons labs at Fort Detrick), and the 1976 swine flu scamdemic, the first time a pharmaceutical company, Merck (which launched the U.S. biological weapons program under President Franklin Roosevelt) was granted liability protections for a vaccine.

Alexis is currently exposing the merging of the agribusiness, pharmaceutical and biological weapons industries evidenced by the merger of Bayer and Monsanto, as well as the recent purchase of Metabiota by Ginkgo Bioworks.

Alexis is the host of Good Vibes Healing with Dr. Henry Ealy and The New MDS: Mothers, Doctors & Scientists with Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America, Dr. Michelle Perro and Dr. Stephanie Seneff. Alexis is a board member of the Virginia Chapter of Children’s Health Defense and a volunteer with COVIDorigins.org and CHD affiliate Health Choice Maryland.

Heather Retberg is a farmer at Quill's End Farm in Penobscot, Maine, which she stewards together with her family. At Quill's End, the farming philosophy is simple: "All Flesh is Grass. All Grass is Soil." Additionally, she has served as a lead advocate for food sovereignty in Maine to protect legal space for traditional foodways and to ensure the right to food. She co-authored and advocated for local ordinances to ensure food sovereignty and food freedom that have now been adopted by 20% of Maine's municipalities. She co-authored, advocated for, and organized toward the passage of the Maine Food Sovereignty Act, which recognizes local control over food exchanges enacted by Maine's legislature in 2017. Together with Senator Craig Hickman, she co-authored Maine's constitutional amendment, now Article 25 of Maine's Declaration of Rights, enshrining the right to food in the first state constitution in the country. She worked for 6 years towards its passage in the state legislature and was the principal officer of the Right to Food for Maine campaign when it went to Maine’s ballot in 2021. She has worked intensively with her local and state Granges toward collaboratively rebuilding agriculture infrastructure and cultural, historical knowledge about food and farming. She serves on the board of Food for Maine's Future and is the principal organizer of Local Food RULES, which promotes a revolution in thinking and action about who should control our local food systems.