Started on august 28, against all odds. Basically we have done this for a year now and we see healthy kids and kids they care about the land and kids that are learning about the garden and starting a farm on their campus. I think it goes back to each one of us had a passion and we each realized that we had a purpose and that our voices were just as powerful as anybody elses and why not you go i think for my daughter and i, our motto is dream and do, and we teach that to every single student we work with. If you can dream and do something realistically to change the world, you dont have a choice. So, deborah, right out of the box symphony of the soil. Can you talk about the state of our soil . What is, what did you learn from this film . What did you bring through in the film . What is happening with soil . And if you could talk about the World Congress of soil, where you just spoke last week . One of the interesting things, i could not have told anybody about soil before a learned about it. The United States is gifted with a really High Percentage of very good soil. 40 of our soils are excellent soils. We have these resources. And what we would do in america is we would use up the soil and move west. Use it up and move west. There was always so much. There was always more. It actually shaped our character because we dont like limits. When people say to americans, you have to accept limits, we say that is unamerican. The leaves fall from the tree, and the microorganisms break that down, which can feed the plant that grows, so there is a cycle in nature of giving back. You have to feed the soil. Industrial agriculture takes and takes and takes and does not give back. The soil becomes more depleted, and you have to use more fertilizer, and it depletes the soil. It can kill the soil, and it can deform it. I think in our society, we have mirrored this. Society now, a lot of people just take and take and take you and they dont have to give back, and i think that we need to change this whole system in america to actually bring out this other quality that we have, which is this is a really difficult challenge, and we have to be really smart and really courageous to face it, because we might not be able to do it. And that americans are, we can do it, so i think we need to shift this idea of what it is to be american, to be patriotic. Lets do the right thing for the right reasons, so, yes, they symphony of the soil film, it is a really wonderful film, and we will be selling it afterwards. It is being shown at whole foods, farming festivals, and communities use it. We have sold 30 copies just to schools in iowa, and they show it, the belly of the beast, and they are showing it to farmers at the National Resources conservation service, which is the soil service of the government, part of the department of agriculture, and they have bought copies to show farmers how to do things like planting things like cover crops, turning them back into the soil, and it returns nutrients to the soil so you do not have to use synthetic nitrogen, if any, and so i am happy about that. I like making films that i am passionate about that will change things, because i think a lot of the problems people have withheld health is as they have been saying, we are not growing food in the right way, and even without the toxins, we are not returning nutrients to the soil, so a lot of our food is not nutrient dense. It is just junk. So i was in korea a few weeks ago, sharing the film with the korean conference, the big thing for the planet, and 2400 soil scientists are there, with cuban pants, wonderful people there, so i was there, and the film was shown as a cultural centerpiece of the conference, which was really an honor, so what made me feel really good, because the film is collaborative, so you can brag about it. I was putting up a poster where it was showing, and so i am putting up the poster, and this woman walks by, and she says, are you deborah . And she said, i am dead were also. I am from brazil, and i teach soil science, and i use your film in our classes. It is great, and i said that is great. And another person said, are you deborah . And she was from europe, and she said, i use your film in classes, and she named all at least soil scientists, and i am, right on, and it is being shown at whole foods, because it is kind of like the next level, and my philosophy is smart enough. Do not dumb down. Give people information a way that they can take it in and feel empowered and get it, and then you think, yes, i get it therefore, i am going to eat organic, or i am not going to put that in my garden, or i am going to show this film at thanksgiving dinner next year so we can all be on the same page and understand it, because soil science is cutting edge, and if we change the way we do agriculture, not only is it healthy for our bodies and our planet, we can put a whole lot of carbon back in the soil, and that will help with global warming, and that will move towards soil conscious. We are all creatures of the soil, and we should treat the soil as if it is part of us, which, in fact, it is. Thank you. And speaking of soil and then, a perfect segue, because one of the things that you and moms all across the country have educated themselves and know what is going on, and they have seen it in their families and children, and one of the number one things with our soil is chemicals and what is going into the soil, so you are specifically around antigmo and what that means, so can you talk about the passion you have around that, and moms who are all around the country can hear this . Yes. Just to clarify, gmos are genetically engineered to withstand pesticide. It either is a pesticide, the pesticide is inside the food itself, or it is genetically engineered to withstand pesticides, so last year, there was an increase in roundup, which is the number one herbicide used in the world, and the active ingredient, glyphosate, you talk about taking, taking, taking, it actually takes from the soil. It is a chelator, which means it draws out the nutrients of any living thing it touches. It is indiscriminate, therefore causing vitamin deficiency and mineral deficiency of any living thing it touches. As a doctor said, it essentially gives a plant aims, so a normally harmless bacteria in the soil kills the lead, so what is it doing to our children, right, is our question, and glyphosate is being used millions of pounds per year, 500 Million Pounds around the world, and, in fact, they just dont use it on the soil before the crop is planted, and they dont just use it on gmos. They actually spray it as a drying agent on our rice, our sugar, our dry peas, the garbanzo beans. It is on your tea. It is on your stevia, and the levels are far above what has been shown to destroy gut bacteria in chickens. It is scientifically proven, and we allow on our food, three parts per million on seed potatoes, five parts per million on regular potatoes, four parts per million on the canola oils they cook with in the restaurants, and it is on the grains that the animals eat that we consume, and the soil is getting inundated with glyphosate. It is sprayed on gmos, on the soil, as a drying agent, and we are extremely concerned about the health risks for our children, and what were seeing now is that one out of to of our children has some sort of chronic illness. And this actually goes to the point of a vary highly respected researcher from m. I. T. , who just recently came out with some very alarming statistics, and she said at todays rate, by 2025, one out of two children will be autistic, and she is able to absolutely map glyphosate use and autism, and she has a chart that shows one on one exactly the use of that. And it is not just scientists. We have testimonials from hundreds of moms. Moms across america, we launched last february, and within months, we were reaching hundreds of thousands per week, and we have thousands of people who come to our website. And we have hundreds of testimonies about how their kids get better when they get off of gmos, and, for example, one woman found out about her son who was 11, and they went organic, and within weeks, they asked, do you have him on a new drug, and they said, no, we just have him on organic. He entered high school, and not one of his teachers could see that he was autistic, and we had another to had asthma, issues across the board. And one had astigmatism in his eyes. He no longer needs glasses, and the doctor said it mustve been there was some sort of inflammation, and she said, i know what the inflammation is. We moms know what is happening. Judi, please talk about what youre doing in the schools. You have so much reach, but now, you are doing something different, and you said this feels like the most important work of your life right now and when you are engaged in. Can you talk about that . Just sitting and listening to you allows me to know more about why we are doing what we are doing. Moms can attempt to take care of their children when they are not home, but they are in school a big chunk of their lives, and 16 years, at least, and they are being fed gmo food. A are being fed the worst food they possibly can, and everybody thinks that is ok, and what we are trying to do is mobilize campuses and encourage kids to fight the fight. One of the things we dreamed was a nongmo pantry, and the goal of that was to show chefs on campuses and in restaurants the differences they can make just by eliminating foreign, soy, canola, and transferring it to what it means to be, nongmo, and that can illuminate about 90 of the impacts we are having, but i think part of what we all have to do as responsible citizens, and i think especially moms, if we have to fight the fight in our schools, and we cannot hear that we cannot do this. We are killing off our kids. We are killing off the next generation. We are in pairing their ability to have children, and i think if each of us is responsible citizens, it really works in the sphere, whether it is in the local schools or the local communities, stopping this being sprayed in our parks and everywhere else, then we are reducing the impacts that our kids are feeling, and for us personally, if we change the way we are feeding our children, and we did it this year for 150 kids in our school, but the most underserved, the kids eating the worst food three meals a day, so i personally wanted to start there, because he can make a difference, and in all of our communities, there are populations that look like that, and what is our responsibility as citizens in the community to take care of these kids . And it has been interesting, because our whole career, we typically work with wealthier white people, and people are always saying, why arent you working with the underserved populations, and my response is that were all underserved. When it comes to these issues, nobody is not underserved. I think the opportunity to know that you can affect change, and now my opportunity to stand in front of people and say you can do this in your schools, you can do it within budget, you can do it within usda guidelines, you can do it in public schools, you do not have to do it in private schools is a really important next step for us, so we can all go back to the superintendents and leaders of School Districts and say stop, and i think more of this information, deborah is talking about soil, the most vital piece of our lives, and we are talking about the autism rates, who is going to take care of all of these kids with autism . Who is going to school them . And the externalities, what we are paying at the end of the day, we might not be spending the money now, but we will so spend it later, and it is getting worse, and for me, the food is the core issue and the seminal issue in our lives, and we all look back, and that is what we try to do everyday. How important this is, there are actually 31 million gmo meals that are served every day in our schools, so what judi is doing is just crucial just to the integrity of our entire culture and the survival of our culture, so we are going to be promoting the whole entire process, with moms across america, to our moms across the country. We have had 200 46 leaders in 44 states, and we want to get this out in the fall in our backtoschool campaign, and it is just crucial that they are empowered. That all of us are empowered in our hometowns to do what you are doing, judi, to make it real, and we can. And i have this dream, a map with red dots for every Single School at has gone gmo free. Ours is the first to be gmo free, but i know within the year, we are going to start seeing dots all over this map, and i think if we see it, and it is tangible, and it makes the next person brave and courageous, there will be a ripple effect, and the world will change. Moms. Lets take moms. I am involved in a moms project, and i am just astounded at the moms and their power, so i have had people say, talking about how we are represented in the press, in the media, so, first, we are women, but what does she know, she is just a mom, and i have been meeting with moms who are the mothers of autistic children who go to bed at night with a medical text and cant speak to a mitochondrial problem and a heartbeat like nobodys business, so this thing that the media trail of just moms or just women, we run 85 of the spending of the home. That is spent by the woman. So can we talk about moms and their power and how women have power, and how are we gaining it . Are we at a standstill . Are there things blocking us . What about this . There is a huge move of moms right now, and i just want to say historically, moms have been the one to determine longevity of the human race. Now, that might be a bold statement, but i say it because fathers provided. They protected, and they would provide for the tribe or the community, but mothers are the ones who decided what the tribe or the community each, and if they did not trust their instincts, if they fed the tribe rotten meat or poison or questionable berries, their entire tribe would perish, some others have been able to trust their instincts up until about 20 years ago, i which is when they introduced pesticides and gmo into the food without knowing it. Mothers have not known. Therefore, this attributes to the decline of the American Health in our population. We are now 17th on the list, the bottom of the 17 most developed countries. We have rates across the board. As he said, one out of two of our children are suffering from chronic illness. Our babies are dying at astronomical rates. We are number one in the usa of infant death on day one. We have 50 more babies that die on day one then the rest of the industrial world combined, and we have so many friends with miscarriages, birth defects, and with this happening in the world, and we are standing up, and we are saying something about it, and i believe that the world is starting to take notice, and we are not going to stop because the love for our children will never end. And you had how many thousands of women call the epa . So what we did, we were fed up with this glyphosate possibly affecting our kids with allergies and autoimmune, and we asked our doctors to test, and they did not have any test, but i got after them, and we found one lap who would test for it, and we asked moms to send in their water, their urine, and their breast milk, and we found it at 1600 times higher than that is allowed in the Drinking Water in europe. Astronomical levels, and these are higher than the levels that were shown to destroy gut bacteria in chickens, and a chicken is about the same size as an infant. This is not ok with us. We set the report to the epa. They did not get back to us within a month, so we did a fiveday calling campaign to recall roundup, because when a product does not do what they said it would do, because they said it would pass harmlessly through the body, so seemingly accumulating in breast milk, it should be recalled, and the epa did not respond, so we did the fiveday campaign, and by wednesday, they said, can you please stop . 10,000 women have called, and by friday, they said, we have to do our jobs, and i said, your job is to recall roundup, and they said their job was to meet with principles. We are going to go back next week, and we are going to stand outside the epa and offer them free glyphosate testing, so we will see, and we will continue to demand to recall roundup. There is a researcher of pesticides, and when he found out people, he says one of the things that glyphosate does is basically ties your hand behind your back so the other chemicals and pesticides that are in your food, like atrosine, become more powerful, so there is a combination of these chemicals, and there was a certain level of roundup that they allowed on food, and roundup kills everything green. And the thing that is chemically engineered. They had to up the amount that they would allow on plants because they were spraying so much roundup that they were exceeding the original standards. That does not wash off. And it does not cook off. And the reason why the first genetically engineered product that monsanto brought up was roundup, because there was a patent, so they had to figure out a way to continue their monopoly on roundup, which was very popular, which was supposed to be so harmless, which obviously wasnt true, so they decided to create seeds that you would have, by contract, have to use roundup on these seeds, so it makes it easy to read, so you can weed 1000 acres, a person on a tractor can weed 1000 acres by spraying roundup, so they did it to be able to stipulate and make people continue to buy specifically roundup rather than just the generic brand. And, by the way, it is patented as a antibiotic, so it is a known antibiotic. It is also known by the epa to be an endocrine disruptor, and that means it causes birth defects, infertility, sterility, and as we mentioned before, it is a chelator, so there are many effects of glyphosate that we do not know. We are not talking about little children that are being impacted. We are talking about young women youre going to be giving birth in the nottoodistant future and know what that is going to look like. We are talking about students who want to make other choices, and i think between the moms and the army of students, the thousands and thousands of students all over the country, so loud. Yes. This is interesting also, because, debra, i wanted to talk to you about the power of being a filmmaker, and today, so many have access to the equipment, everything to make films, so are we diluting our power, are we gaining power through film . How is that today . Film it is a powerful medium, and because of technology, filmmaking has become an issue. And i love the craft of film, so my films are highly crafted. And i see film as being an emotional medium, but it also impacts people emotionally so it transforms them so they want to make changes. There is all kinds of films. There are some films that are so powerful that they move people, but i love making films. I like, for example, i like the challenge of taking soil, which is dark and seemingly inert, and film, which is about light and movement, and bringing them together into a film that people like seeing. So i think film is a po