Courtney Swan
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first heard Feb 2025
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And there's all this conversation politically right now about how we're wasting so much of our government funding going to these weird freaking freakish studies that no one even wants to have studies on anyways. Why are we not putting our money towards this? This is something that sustains our life. We eat three meals a day. This is what we need to live on this planet, and we're largely...
poisoning ourselves in so many different directions. So why are we not looking at that?
Yes. I've
I mean, I can take this two different directions. I feel like why, well, first of all, we know these foods are addictive, right? So would we, I mean, we're, there's this weird thing happening right now where we are encouraging people with needles and stuff. That's a whole different argument.
What I was going to say is why would we want to encourage drug addicts instead of give them, get them the education, let them know that this is actually doing to their body? Because I think largely, I don't think people really understand that. I think people are starting to kind of understand like, oh, you know, if I drink a bunch of sodas, it's probably not the best for me.
But I don't think they literally understand like this is the matter of you between you getting diabetes and like having your leg chopped off, like the difference between that or the difference between getting a rampant cancer and dying at a young age. I don't think that we're truly – as a population understanding the implications of these food products.
I think people think of it kind of in this way of like, oh, I'm being bad today, but it's fine. I also don't think people understand how much they're consuming these products now. You look at the standard American diet, and if people are not reading ingredient labels... They're eating upwards of, I don't even know how many additives and chemicals, 50 plus a day probably.
We haven't studied what all those different additives and chemicals are doing in conjunction together in the human body. So to answer your question, I think there's largely an education piece that needs to happen here where people really understand what's happening so they can demand better for themselves. Because I think at the end of the day, everybody wants to be healthy.
Nobody wants to feel sick. I think we also have a large problem where part of our population doesn't really feel well. A large portion of our population is metabolically unwell, and they don't know what it feels like to actually really feel well and healthy. So how can we get that education out to people that it's not hitting yet?
Because it's very much hit our world, but it's not largely hit the American population. So how can we get that education out there and then get them to actually be demanding better for their foods? And then also... Real food tastes good. There's this weird notion out there that if you're eating healthy, you're eating rice cakes and boiled chicken with no seasoning and broccoli that's bland.
I have a rule in my house. If it doesn't taste good, I don't eat it. Like I'm not choking down things just for the health of it. Eating real fresh food. I think you probably have the joy of knowing what it's like to go to a farmer's market here in California and get really fresh food and make a meal from that at home. Nothing tastes better than that.
And there's this notion that if we're going to take away people's ultra processed foods that we're taking away, you know, delicious, yummy tasting foods. I don't think any of those foods taste good. I tried Reese's Pieces last year. They used to be my favorite candy when I was younger. I spit them out. I thought they tasted absolutely disgusting.
So I think there needs to be this level of education around all of that and maybe slowly introducing people to healthier foods. Like how can we encourage them to want to do this for themselves and empower them to do that? Because people are largely addicted is essentially what I'm saying. And they don't know what it's like to eat real food and what it really tastes like.
Yeah.
Well, isn't it crazy that we don't teach children this? They should be learning this in kindergarten. I mean, I remember, did you ever watch that show Jamie Oliver when he went into our school system and he tried to clean up the food system?
They didn't even know what they were. Yeah. I feel like we have our priorities so backwards. Like this should be the first thing that we're teaching kids. Put a community garden in all of those schools and have them gardening when they're in kindergarten or elementary school. Help them make the connection with the foods that they're putting in their bodies.
There is literally nothing more important. Because without your health, you have nothing. You're not going to be here anymore without your health. You also don't or you're not going to have energy to show up for your life. Your body is not going to be functioning if you don't have your health. So why is this not our first priority and something that we teach kids at a young age?
And then, yeah, I mean, I see these photos circulating all over like Twitter and Instagram. All the schools across the globe, like Italy, Japan, these kids are getting real food, meals. And then you look at what our kids are getting, and it's all white foods. It's like fried chicken tenders and mashed potatoes and like maybe a couple green peas that the kids are probably throwing away anyways.
I heard this today on the Senate hearing, actually, where one of the senators said, if you go and you look at the trash cans of all these schools, they're largely throwing away all this food because it's all ultra processed garbage that they don't want to eat anyways. And then they're just going and buying snacks. And that's what they're eating for their meals.
They're buying the lays and the sodas. And and that's what they're eating because they don't even want to eat the food that we're giving them. It's like prison food.
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