The NHPPA Podcast

A conversation with Renato Persechino recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour event at Biker’s Church in Ottawa. Renato shares how his lifelong interest in health began in childhood after witnessing his grandfather’s rapid decline from lung cancer, leading him to study human performance, nutrition, and resilience. He describes his training in orthomolecular nutrition, homeopathy, and functional medicine, and explains his work supporting clients through lifestyle, movement, stress reduction, and targeted nutrient support. Renato discusses the critical role of independent health food stores, where well-trained staff provide guidance tailored to individual needs, contrasting this with big-box retail and online purchasing. He outlines how Health Canada regulations restrict staff from discussing effective nutrient dosages, using vitamin C as an example, despite its well-established role in immune function. Throughout the conversation, Renato emphasizes the importance of community-based health stores, ongoing staff education, and maintaining access to vital nutrients to prevent worsening chronic disease and rising mortality. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/join-the-tour/. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed about how you can educate and activate your community: https://nhppa.org/subscribe/

A discussion with Shawn Buckley and Teresa Buckley recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour in Saskatoon. Shawn and Teresa reflect on the purpose of the tour and the need for meaningful follow-through beyond awareness, emphasizing grassroots citizen engagement and exponential, person-to-person communication. Teresa outlines the importance of moving beyond “safe conversations” and actively instructing others to share information about health freedom and access to natural remedies. The discussion addresses widespread suffering, chronic malnutrition, limitations of current health policy, and the urgency of creating a critical mass of informed Canadians to support better health outcomes and personal responsibility. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/join-the-tour/. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed about how you can educate and activate your community: https://nhppa.org/subscribe/

In this episode, we explore the growing impact of poor nutrition on chronic conditions, the role of vitamins like vitamin D in preventing disease, and why many patients see profound improvements when underlying deficiencies are addressed. Dr. Malthouse also speaks candidly about the limitations of the conventional medical system and how integrative approaches can offer meaningful alternatives for patients seeking better outcomes.

In this segment, Shawn Buckley explains that the push to introduce cloned meat into Canada goes far beyond labeling or consumer choice. He walks through how Health Canada quietly removed cloned meat from the “novel food” category, allowing it to enter the food supply without proof of safety. Shawn explains that regulators cannot allow a public debate on whether cloned meat should exist at all, because once it is widely consumed, it can no longer be meaningfully regulated or challenged. Shawn also outlines why cloned livestock is essential to the long-term strategies of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, particularly their interest in using animals as platforms for biologics and other bioengineered products delivered through the food chain.
He explains how this shift enables mass exposure or treatment without public knowledge or consent and why media focus on labeling serves as a deliberate distraction from these structural goals. He concludes by warning that once cloned meat is normalized, Canadians lose the opportunity to question its safety, ethics, or necessity.
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In this segment, Shawn Buckley explains why Health Canada’s safety assessment of cloned meat is fundamentally inadequate and why key risks have been ignored.
Shawn walks through how Health Canada claims cloned meat is safe while explicitly refusing to assess the very risks that make cloning dangerous, including unpredictable genetic defects, anatomical abnormalities, and increased use of hormones, antibiotics, and other drugs.
He explains that Health Canada’s assessment ignores the reality that most cloned animals never survive to maturity and relies only on data from the small fraction that do.
Shawn compares this approach to evaluating seatbelts while refusing to consider car crashes, illustrating how the core danger is deliberately excluded from analysis.
He also explains that Health Canada relies on limited nutrient comparisons and selectively cites U.S. regulatory conclusions while failing to mention that the European Union has banned both cloned meat and the cloning of farm animals entirely.
Shawn outlines what a reasonable safety process would actually require, including large-scale, long-term animal studies, ethical human trials, screening for genetic defects and drug residues, and post-market surveillance—none of which currently exist.
He concludes by warning that Canadians are being asked to accept cloned meat without evidence of safety and urges viewers to recognize this as part of a broader manufactured consent process.
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A discussion with Adam Campbell recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour in Saskatoon. Adam shares his family’s experience navigating stroke recovery after his wife suffered multiple strokes, discussing the limits of conventional medical prognosis and the role of nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle in neurological recovery. He describes their use of a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet to support brain function, vitamin D supplementation, and their experience using DMSO in relation to speech and neurological improvement, while emphasizing caution, testing, and informed decision-making. Adam also addresses concerns about censorship, access to supplements, and the importance of the right to educate oneself and explore treatment options. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/join-the-tour/. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed about how you can educate and activate your community: https://nhppa.org/subscribe/

In this segment, Shawn Buckley explains why Canada is in the middle of a manufactured consent exercise designed to normalize the consumption of cloned meat—first with labeling, and eventually without it.
Shawn walks through Health Canada’s own opinion document and shows how regulators begin with a predetermined conclusion that cloned meat is “safe,” then work backwards to justify that claim. He explains that most cloned animals never survive to maturity due to genetic defects, organ damage, and developmental failures, yet safety claims rely only on the small fraction of animals that survive long enough to be studied.
Shawn details how Health Canada uses superficial comparisons, such as limited nutrient equivalence, while ignoring the core risks inherent to cloning itself, including unpredictable genetic abnormalities, increased illness, and the heavy use of hormones, antibiotics, and chemical drugs in cloned animals.
He also explains why these risks are never meaningfully addressed in the safety assessment and how similar genetic technologies have already produced unexpected harms in other contexts.
The segment concludes by showing how ignoring known dangers is a defining feature of manufactured consent, allowing regulators and media to promote cloned meat while discouraging genuine public scrutiny.
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Closing discussion with Shawn Buckley and Teresa Buckley recorded during the NHPPA Health Charter Tour live event in Lloydminster, Alberta. Shawn and Teresa outline the purpose of the tour, emphasizing grassroots citizen engagement, the need to communicate beyond existing circles, and the importance of exponential, person-to-person outreach. They discuss increasing censorship within the natural health community, recent changes to Health Canada enforcement penalties introduced through the 2023 federal budget, and the growing fear among practitioners and retailers. The conversation highlights the urgency of public education, collective action, and defending access to natural health products through the Charter of Health Freedom. Learn more about the NHPPA’s cross-Canada tour and the Charter of Health Freedom at nhppa.org/join-the-tour/. Subscribe to our free newsletter to stay informed about how you can educate and activate your community: https://nhppa.org/subscribe/

In this combined segment, Shawn reviews the animal studies that Health Canada relies on to justify the safety of cloned meat. He explains what these studies actually reveal: high rates of abnormalities, developmental failures, health complications, and premature deaths in cloned animals. Despite these outcomes, regulators present the data as proof of safety. Shawn shows how selective interpretation, omission, and reframing of evidence are used to manufacture an impression of confidence where none exists. He also explains why these animal studies raise serious unanswered questions about long-term human consumption. Find out more: https://nhppa.org/manufacturing-consent/ Read Shawn’s discussion paper: https://nhppa.org/manufacturing-consent/#discussion-consent Support this work with a donation: https://nhppa.org/donate

In this segment, Shawn exposes a critical fact buried beneath Health Canada’s messaging: there are no human safety studies for cloned meat.
Despite this, regulators claim the products are safe based on limited animal data, much of it unpublished, incomplete, or produced by the same corporations seeking approval.
Shawn explains why this absence of evidence matters, how the public is being guided to focus on labels instead of safety science, and why the goal is ultimately to normalize cloned meat to the point where labeling disappears altogether.
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