Courtney Swan
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We know that they're linked to hyperactivity in children.
There's also concerning links to cancer.
Kids are, I mean, teachers, I get messages from teachers all the time saying, you would not believe the issues that we're having with children just focusing because they're getting all this ultra processed foods and then they're bouncing off the walls and they can't control them.
So that's largely a really big win that we're getting it out of that.
People are being served that in hospitals and nursing homes.
The ripple effect of it will actually be amazing.
And again, they should have never been there in the first place.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So that in my eyes is a really big win.
And it's kind of one of those things where it was low hanging fruit.
Great.
We caught, we crossed it off the list, you know, onto the next thing.
It needed to be done.
The gross loophole is another one that I'm really passionate about that needs to be fixed.
And Bobby said that he's working on that, which is, you know, generally recognized as safe, which is the loophole that has allowed a lot of these.
ultra processed ingredients, fillers, additives, all the crap that's in these ultra processed foods just to allow them to flood the market.
And the FDA has admitted themselves that they don't have the manpower or the money to manage all of these different ingredients that have ended up on our shelves.
And it's largely because Gross, the loophole, really let them all in.
So Bobby is reevaluating that right now.