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As Mother’s Day approaches, sons, daughters, and husbands wonder what mom wants. Food manufacturers, product developers, and major corporations who sell millions of products around this time are wondering the same. As the director of Moms Across America, I’ve interacted with thousands of mothers over the past ten years. I’ve come up with a top ten list of what moms want for Mother’s Day. You can buy some of them on a shelf. Most you cannot. But manufacturers who wish to sell many products for mothers may want to take heed and ask themselves if their products embody these values.

On abril 18, 2022, Moms Across America launched a new Neighborhood Food Network pilot program. The invitation to participate in this new initiative was shared on the Monday night Moms Connect Call with the preview of the www.NeighborhoodFoodNetwork.com website. 

Hershey’s Chocolate Found to have 4X Higher Levels of Glyphosate than YouTuber, MrBeast’s Chocolate

Two months ago, the second most popular YouTube creator in America, a 23-year-old known as MrBeast, launched a line of chocolates with a Willy Wonka-style golden ticket in the wrapper. The lucky ticket holder will win one million dollars. After ten years of making videos, MrBeast has close to 100 million followers. His fans are primary teens and early twenty-something who flock to his channel to see his latest antics, primarily consisting of giving away money and challenging himself and his fans. He is a humorous young man with what many teens call “a good heart,” doing things like funding the planting of trees, paying people’s rent, and giving money and cars away. His choice to make two out of four of the ingredients for his chocolates organic was a welcome surprise that we at Moms Across America applaud. Sixteen-year-old Bodee Honeycutt brought this line of chocolate to our attention, saying, “We should test MrBeast's chocolate for glyphosate to show that using organic ingredients is better.”

Moms Across America’s Fourth Meeting with EPA Pesticide Review Board

On marzo 3, 2022, Moms Across America and a team of highly reputable scientists and experts met with the Pesticide Review Board of the US Environmental Protection Agency regarding the EPA's review of glyphosate. The presenters intended to provide new evidence to support the revocation of glyphosate's license. The Moms Across America presenters were: 

• Dr. Shanna Swan, author of Countdown and numerous papers on glyphosate
• Dr. Don Huber, Professor Emeritus of Perdue University, 50-year plant pathologist and glyphosate expert, and US Defense Military Consultant
• Dr. Zach Bush, Triple Board-certified physician and founder of Farmers Footprint
• Robin Mesnage Ph.D. Consultant to Kings College University
• Mary Lou McDonald LL.B. and President of Safe Food Matters
• Kelly Ryerson, board member of Moms Across America and reporter (aka Glyphosate Girl)
• Zen Honeycutt, Founding Executive Director of Moms Across America and author of Unstoppable.

Están sucediendo tantas cosas que a veces no nos tomamos el tiempo para dar un paso atrás y ver el panorama general. Tomemos un momento para ver las noticias de las últimas semanas. Podemos ver un cambio significativo en la perspectiva: Big Ag y Big Pharma están siendo expuestos por comportamiento corrupto, y personas en todo el mundo, incluidos cada vez más medios, los están denunciando.

People have had enough. Exposure to this corruption is making a difference.

We suspect toxic GMO agrochemical farming is killing our babies. Will you help us to hold mega corporations accountable?

This week, the FDA announced that they advise consumers not to use Abbot Baby Formula brands Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare powdered formulas due to a connection to 5 recorded hospitalizations and two deaths after consuming these formulas. The babies developed Cronobacter sakazakii y Salmonella Newport infections, leading to their hospitalizations and/or deaths. 

The FDA has not taken the responsibility of ordering a recall. They continue to allow this product to be sold. 

If you are giving your baby formula or know someone who is, we ask you to look at the container immediately.

On febrero 22, 2022, in Asheville, NC, a Civil Services Board Grievance Hearing was held regarding the firing of five city employees, including sanitation, Parks and Rec workers, police, and a firefighter, for not complying with the human resource policy of providing proof of vaccination or submitting to weekly testing. Testing is required at the employee's expense, on their own time. Because the five employees freely admitted that they did not comply with the policy, the City Attorney, John Maddux, argued in the hearing that the case should be dismissed. However, to provide an overabundance of caution, he brought two witnesses to testify about the policy and justification for the firings.

The first witness was Stacie Saunders, the Buncombe County Department of Public Health director. After giving her background, which was not that of a doctor but a public health expert, she quoted pharmaceutical talking points. She extolled the virtues of vaccination as "one of the greatest human achievements." She invoked fear about COVID by stating that "since the beginning of COVID, there have been 4.4 million hospitalizations." Not clarifying, however, if those hospitalizations were from or with COVID.

Big News!

febrero 22, 2022, Asheville NC.,- A hearing opposing the Asheville city employee vaccine and testing mandates begins today, febrero 22, 9 am ET online. Lawfirm Lakota R. Denton and Associates filed the appeal to the mandates and loss of employment on behalf of five city employees, including frontline firefighters. 

The firefighters have decades of combined years of service to the community of Asheville. Counsel is seeking reinstatement of the firefighter's positions and back pay. This hearing, which is likely the first in the nation regarding this issue, is expected to be held from 9 am ET until 12 noon, reconvene at 2 pm until 5 pm on febrero 22, 23, and 24th. Expert witnesses and firefighters will testify.

The hearing can be viewed by the press and public on Children's Health Defense TV Live.

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/asheville-nc-civil-service-board-hearing-for-fired-city-employees

Moms Across America has received test results from a Canadian farmer showing that Canadian whole wheat flour has up to 300 ppb while Canadian wheat bran has up to 3,162 ppb of glyphosate residues. These are unacceptable and dangerous levels. This news comes at a time when the Government of Canada is in the process of reassessing its review processes for determining its approval of glyphosate and the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs). This review was as ordered by the Federal Court of Appeals after a suit was filed by Safe Food Matters.

Glyphosate herbicides are commonly sprayed as a weed killer before planting and also before harvest, especially in wetter, northern regions, as a drying agent. Canada exports agricultural products to 95 countries and is the third top exporter of wheat, behind Russia and the US, exporting 6.3 billion dollars of wheat a year, or 14.1% of the world’s wheat.

Samples of wheat bran, whole wheat flour, and unbleached all-purpose flour from a Winnipeg supermarket. (first and second section of results) All were produced from Canadian wheat. The second set of samples (third chart)  are from a research project being done at a farm in Manitoba.

Ten years ago, Moms Across America launched our website and Facebook page, inviting mothers and others to join into julio 4, 2013, Independence Day parades. Our Facebook page was organically reaching 300,000 people a week within four months. With banners that read Moms Across America March to Label GMOs and informational flyers, mothers and families joined into 179 parades in 37 states, reaching thousands locally and millions nationally in a single day.