Courtney Swan
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And you don't actually know what's in them.
I mean, there was this really famous- That's the problem.
There's no way to find out.
And what I'm discovering, because I'm starting to work on my own products right now, is that a lot of the manufacturers, so it's become really popular to have very simple ingredients on your label.
So objectively, you look at the Chobani label and you're like, oh my gosh, this is three ingredients.
This is great.
They could have 20 ingredients hiding under natural flavors and you just don't know.
And the manufacturers, what they're doing is they know how to do this.
They know how to cheat the system.
They say, oh, we'll just put all these ingredients under natural flavors.
And then you can have this really clean label and it has, you know, oh my God, it has three ingredients in it.
I wouldn't.
And I'll tell people for a couple reasons.
First and foremost, I don't want to put my money into the CAFOs, which are factory farms.
If you just look up the living conditions for these cows, it's absolutely horrible.
We should have never done this in the first place.
And then you look at it from a health standpoint, you're getting milk from sick animals.
I don't know how else to put it.
You are getting milk from sick animals.
Yep, they put them on antibiotics prophylactically, meaning preventatively, because they're loaded in these horrible, dirty conditions, living on top of each other.