Toxic Harvest: Kelly Ryerson of 'Common Ground' Unpacks Glyphosate Toxicity & Regenerative Hope
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this eye-opening bonus episode, originally aired on Nutrition Without Compromise, host Corinna Bellizzi interviews Kelly Ryerson—better known as Glyphosate Girl. Together, they expose the hidden toxicity of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup), its role in chronic illness, microbiome destruction, and environmental collapse. Kelly shares her personal health journey, dives into courtroom dramas from the Monsanto trials, and offers practical tips to reduce glyphosate exposure through conscious food choices.
Kelly is also featured in Common Ground, the award-winning documentary on regenerative agriculture—a powerful sequel to Kiss the Ground—now streaming on Amazon. She appears alongside notable voices like Rosario Dawson, Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Ian Somerhalder, and Woody Harrelson, helping drive awareness of regenerative solutions for our health and the planet.
Topics Covered:
- Why glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor and probable carcinogen
- How it affects soil health and the human microbiome
- GMO crops, superweeds, and the rise of pesticide-resistant agriculture
- Food labeling confusion: Organic vs Non-GMO
- Environmental justice and glyphosate runoff
- How to reduce exposure at home, and what to buy organic
- The connection between glyphosate and global fishery collapse
Resources & Links:
- GlyphosateFacts.com – Kelly’s information hub
- @GlyphosateGirl on Instagram
- Watch Common Ground on Amazon Prime
- The New Fish – Simen Saetre
- Rodale Institute
- Mendocino Grain Project
About Our Guest:
Kelly Ryerson (Glyphosate Girl) is an independent journalist, speaker, and advocate who bridges the worlds of agriculture, policy, and chronic illness. She has contributed to documentaries—including Common Ground, where she appears alongside Rosario Dawson, Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, and Woody Harrelson—co-hosts a daily show on CHDtv, and serves as an ambassador for the Rodale Institute.
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| 0:00.0 | Climate change is making it really, really hard to have even ripening of crops. It's just really hard |
| 0:05.3 | because typically before we had a lot of weather fluctuation, you could cut the crops down and |
| 0:10.1 | they could dry on the field and then they'd be brought in. But now if you leave, say, the wheat |
| 0:15.6 | on the field like that, there's a risk of weather damage and then early sprouting and all kinds of things that can go wrong. |
| 0:22.9 | So the ideal situation is to have a very even harvest with even field of equally dried out grains. |
| 0:30.4 | And that just doesn't typically happen naturally. |
| 0:33.5 | So to decrease the risk of losing the crop, they decided they could spray roundup on it and |
| 0:39.1 | kill off the crop all at one time so that then when they go and they harvest, they haven't lost |
| 0:44.1 | any of the crop and they can get it all in one big sweep and one day and harvest it all at the |
| 0:49.0 | same time. But unfortunately, in doing so, glyphosate is a systemic herbicide, so it's not like you can wash it off. |
| 0:55.7 | It actually goes into the food itself and into whatever the fruit is of the crop. |
| 1:00.9 | Welcome to Nutrition Without Compromise, a podcast brought to you by Orlo Nutrition. |
| 1:06.5 | We believe that nutrition shouldn't be in either or, that you should never have to sacrifice |
| 1:11.2 | your morals for your health or that of our home planet. |
| 1:14.9 | Join Natural Products veteran Karina Belizei and experts from around the globe as they discuss |
| 1:20.3 | healthy solutions that are better for you and better for the planet. |
| 1:26.0 | Welcome to another interview episode of Nutrition Without Compromise. I'm your host, |
| 1:31.0 | Karina Fulisi. I'm sure by now that you've all heard of the plant killer herbicide commonly |
| 1:37.5 | referred to as Roundup. Roundup contains glyphosate. It's a chemical that was engineered to be |
| 1:43.8 | sprayed onto plants, but that |
| 1:45.7 | would kill common weeds. In some cases, it's even engineered directly into the food. |
| 1:50.6 | You've likely heard that this chemical is generally a bad thing, but you may not understand why. |
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