A Report From The True Food Summit
By Mary Budinger
“I want to know where my food is coming from, and I want to know what’s in it.”
That led CHD Arizona chapter leader Ursula Conway and her team to put together an extraordinary gathering of food experts and health freedom advocates at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden January 11, 2025. 
Wanting to know what is in our food is much more than just curiosity for increasing numbers of people. But it is not easy to know because food labels can be as clear as mud. Some leaders in the health movement have called that lack of transparency the number one civil rights issue of our age.
Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense, told The True Food Summit audience that 90 percent of the U.S. health care budget is consumed by chronic disease. Big commercial farmers and politicians have prioritized yield and profit, not the nutritional content or health benefits of what we put in our bodies each day.
“There are big subsidies for corn and soy crops, but only two percent of subsidies go to vegetables and fruits,” Holland said. “We know genetically modified soy and high fructose corn syrup are dangerous foods. We simply must stop making so much cheap, unhealthy food.
She also pointed out that we have come to rely on Pharma products for health but we are not healthier for it. “Babies get 24 vaccines by 2 years of life, and 70 vaccines by the age of 18. The National Institutes for Health (NIH) has been a money sink for vaccine development; they did not look at root cause therapies,” she said.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OTHER CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:
“Arizona is the 3rd largest state for producing vegetables. Cows have been here since the 1690s. Yet today Arizona and California are letting their water be used to grow alfalfa for Saudia Arabia and other countries – that puts farmers out of business because it drives up the cost of feed. American hay goes to feed milk cows in China.
“We are drawing down the aquifers and the drought-depleted Colorado River. And Phoenix is growing so more agricultural land is lost for residential homes where people water their lawns recklessly. People need to learn how to water their grass from their own barrels of rainwater capture. You can return the desert to the blooming place of growth but you’re not going to do that by sucking water out of the ground.” – John Klar; farmer, attorney, author
“The University of Arizona tested curbside plants for toxicity. They found none in the fruit itself. The leaves took it up. In my yard, mushrooms in my woodchips took up the toxins. You can water your plants with rain runoff.” – Steven Monroe, ecological landscape designer
“We have a four-day food supply in Arizona. The average distance driven by a truck bringing ‘fresh food’ to the grocery stores travels 1500 miles. You can grow your own food, that is why I started the Queen Creek Botanical Garden where we have an income of $6.82 per square foot. People make 40 cents per square foot from traditional farming methods. The value of your yard? It is $10 per square foot. Be an owner, not a victim.” – Justin Rohner
“You can grow grass-fed lamb in a lot of places in America. Why are we importing 52% of our lamb from Australia and New Zealand where it is subsidized? Animals replenish soil. We could fix a lot of carbon issues by converting Big Ag to regenerative agriculture. And grass by another name is solar panels.” – John Klar; farmer, attorney, author
“I love how the MAHA [Make America Healthy Again] movement got the mainstream media to talk about food.” – Troy Casey, certified health nut
“We need to disentangle from the current health system. It is still enmeshed in germ theory. Beauchamp got it right with the terrain theory. Finland debunks Pasteur and has studies about healthy farm kids versus unhealthy city kids. It’s crazy that we can give kids 3 cans of Coke each day but not one tablespoon of raw milk. And we need to disentangle from the current food and social systems. We have far too many teen suicides and people with tiny attention spans.” – Joel Salatin
“Low levels of vitamin B3 creates aggression because the part of the brain that tells you to calm down, not to take the risk, that you’ve had too much alcohol – that part of the brain needs vitamin B to function well. This has obvious implications for young people. But also, I wonder what would happen to our prison overpopulation situation if we fed them healthy food?” – Zen Honeycutt, Moms Across America
“MAHA is also asking about all the chemicals around us; 12,034 PFAS [forever chemicals] identified by the FDA so far. For example, 80% of sampled fast foods are contaminated by phthalates. We are naïve if we think we can trust corporate America. The relatively few companies that control the bulk of the world’s food are all concentrated in the World Economic Forum, saying we all have to convert to industrial food systems to save the world from famine – they have to take over 500 peasant farms. But Bayer, Dow, and Zurich Insurance are not farmers. They want profit share, market share, and are pretending to be environmentally conscious providing ‘sustainable’ chemicals. – John Klar
“We have a lot of assaults on our food, but what is raining down on us from the sky?” – Robert Scott Bell; emcee, homeopathic practitioner, author, broadcaster
“You can’t Make America Healthy Again with dirty air and dirty water. Aluminum and barium are raining down on us from so called ‘solar radiation management.’ Geoengineering and vaccines are related because they are using the same ingredients. Aluminum when it rains down from the clouds gets in the soil and stunts plant growth. Fungi feed off the aluminum in the body. Now add 5G to that.” – Dr. Henry Ealy
“GMOS are in vaccines. We sent five vaccines to the lab and all 5 were positive for glyphosate. We tested school lunches; all were positive for heavy metals. And so were all the fast foods we tested – Panera bread tested highest for glyphosate and vitamins and minerals were way low. And 44 out of 46 samples of gluten free bread tested positive for glyphosate. Girl Scout cookies are full of heavy metals and genetically modified ingredients. We have a nutrient density problem in America.” – Zen Honeycutt, Moms Across America
“The new 401K plan is to live near people who know how to build, grow, create things. Disentangle from the lifestyle of consumerism, fashion, lust, clothes. Be proud to be a cheapskate. Make home the center of your life. Buy in bulk, can your own food, plant trees.” – Joel Salatin
“I didn’t have any knowledge of this 30 years ago. It was only because I got sick and started farming. All the speakers too – I didn’t expect that – most are here today because they got sick and had to find the truth.” – John Klar
RESOURCES:
Agriscaping – Elegant, Edible, Landscaping; Justin Rohner
Book – “Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival” by John Klar
Book – “Unlock The Power To Heal” by Robert Scott Bell and Ty Bollinger
Energetic Health Institute, Dr. Henry Ealy
Moms Across America, Zen Honeycutt
Polyface Farms, Joel Salatin
The Rain Harvester, Stephen Monroe