Courtney Swan
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they probably wouldn't even know where it came from. They wouldn't even be able to tell you just by looking at it. Like, oh, I know that that is from potatoes. They would be like, what is that? That would be something that would be ultra processed foods. Ultra processed foods are made with a bunch of ingredients that you would not normally have in your kitchen.
There are a bunch of ingredients that you find in factories. And my argument and the whole reason that I started Real Foodology, my whole thing was when I came up with that name 14 years ago is I sat down and I thought, what's gonna stand the test of time when it comes to nutrition and health? We always need to be coming back to eating real food.
And that has been the basis of my entire business and my message is that we need to be getting back to eating real food. And right now, the majority of our calories are coming from these ultra-processed foods.
I don't think people understand how detrimental it is actually.
Yeah. So I largely believe that most of this stuff started with good intention. The problem is that now that we have the data and the science and we know that these chemicals and certain processing things that we're doing with our food, we now know that they are harming people. And now it is to the point where it is becoming sinister, in my opinion. But I don't think it started out that way.
largely a lot of what we're dealing with now, which is an industrialization of our food system, was started because of the war. After the war, there was famine. Our president was genuinely concerned about getting enough food to people, having it be cheap, accessible, fast.
So that's when we started paying subsidies to farmers because they thought, okay, what crops can we grow just rows and rows and rows of, grow them really fast, and then commoditize them?
Commoditize them. Why was that so hard for me to get out?
Infantilize maybe?
It's fun. I've been trying to broaden my words.
I'd be like, oh, Gary got that from me.
And there was also this notion, which we're still seeing today, is that they wanted to feed the world. So this is when we started introducing things like glyphosate, for example, which is one that I really am hyper-focused on right now. I'm incredibly concerned about glyphosate. over 90% of Americans were finding glyphosate in their urine. And it's coming up in placenta.
It's coming up in breast milk.
Yeah. Even those of us that are eating organic and we're doing really hard and we're doing saunas and we're detoxing, we are all finding it in our blood. And it is... So incredibly concerning. So glyphosate is an herbicide. It's also known as Roundup, which was created by Monsanto.
Now, in 2018, Bayer, which is a pharmaceutical company, bought Monsanto, and now they are also a agrochemical company, and they own a majority of our food system now because they have patented genetically modified seeds, which are corn, wheat, and, or sorry, sorry, we just started genetically modifying wheat recently, but corn and soy are the majority of those.
Now, during the war, what we did is we started paying subsidies to farmers. What are subsidies? These come from taxpayer dollars, and it's money that we give to farmers in order to incentivize them to grow specific crops. Now, some of the crops that we do with that are corn and soy.
Now, it's why I would encourage everybody listening, if you have any ultra-processed foods in your cabinet, I would go and I would read the label, and I would argue that almost every single one of them that you pick up, it's going to say, may contain corn, wheat, and soy.
They're in everything because we are paying farmers to grow them. So we have them in surplus and it's cheaper. It's more accessible. It's more affordable. Again, we have it in excess. So we're using it in everything. And so not only is it being pushed into our ultra processed foods in the forms of, you know, vegetable oils, all of our processed grains, corn syrup is a really big one.
Yeah, we're also using that to feed our livestock. So we're also getting it on the other end in our meat, our dairy, and our eggs. And glyphosate is incredibly concerning. It has very concerning backstories. So this is actually what I did my Senate speech on. I was so grateful to be a part of this roundtable, this nutrition roundtable.
It was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson back in September, and it was with Vani Hari and Michaela Peterson, Jordan Peterson, RFK Jr., Callie and Casey Means.
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