Courtney Swan
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4 Feb
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In fact, I did a series on my podcast called Organic for Everyone. It was so much fun.
Yes. My producer and I would go and we would buy really popular fast food items and see how much the cost of that was. Like we did Taco Bell cheesy gordita crunch, for example. And then we also bought all the ingredients to make that at home. Every single ingredient was organic. We were buying it from super accessible stores like Walmart, Ralph's, Kroger.
Every single ingredient was organic. And then we made a copycat of that at home. And every single time it was cheaper to buy all organic groceries and make it at home than it was to go through the drive-thru.
I say this all the time. Convenience is killing us. It really is. And we think that it's so, I said this earlier, it has been so hammered into us. Oh, it's so expensive to eat healthy. It's so expensive. I am not, I'm by no means saying that I think that some of this stuff is not overpriced. And I know if you really start getting into ins and outs of it, it can get really expensive.
But if you are dire straits really on a budget, forget the organic, okay? That is concerning and I focus on it. But like if you are dire straits and you were just trying to eat more whole real foods, Just get ground beef, rice, beans, a big quart of yogurt. Normally, eggs are well-priced. I think they're going back down right now.
Oh, okay. I've been traveling, so I haven't gone to the grocery store recently. But focus on the basics like that. And like you said, get fruit and get yogurt and just focus on eating as many whole real foods as you can and dump all the convenience because it's expensive. Yeah.
Trash Panda where you can scan everything. So people can go and scan everything in the grocery store.
And then it'll tell you it rates it. And then they tell you all the ingredients that are red flag, why they're red flags. And then it'll, it'll give you, um, alternative options.
It's so cute.
It drives the consumer trends. Actually, during our Senate speech, Jason Karp, who's the founder of Hugh Kitchen, he actually said this, and he knows what it's like to be in those boardrooms with those companies. And he said that a company like, for example, Kellogg's General Mills, if they see just a 10% drop in their sales, they scramble. Just 10%. Do you know how little that is?
Exactly. But I mean, from our perspective of like, if we all of a sudden just decide, like, we're not going to buy it from their products anymore and we're going to buy from a smaller local farm or, you know, a smaller company that's actually doing right by us. That doesn't take that many people to see a huge shift like that.
And I mean, look at organic. Organic has absolutely exploded in the last 10 years and it's all driven by consumer trends.
We drive that with our money. I think people don't understand how much power we actually really have.
They're gonna be forced to make that change for everyone else too.
And these American companies are making these for other countries. That's what drives me nuts about it.
I know.
But you know what that is actually? So Jason Carpigan was talking about this at our Senate hearing, and he was emailing back and forth with one of these companies. And the issue is that they have realized that the brightly colored cereals and brightly colored fruit snacks or whatever it is that they're adding those dyes into make them more appealing and addictive to children.
And so that's why they do it. So Trix actually famously a couple years ago, they announced, we're taking out all the artificial colors.
Yeah. And they're like, we're going to use natural dyes, you know, to color them. Well, they're not as bright because they're colors made in nature. It's why when you see cereal, it's like fluorescent highlighter color. It's not colors.
Yeah. It's like highlighter colors. They actually saw a dramatic drop in their sales because Trix was the only one that was doing it. And so they brought them back. So this is a large part of the issue is that these companies are digging their heels in because they're like, no, we're going to lose money off of the profit of these cereals.
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