Dr. Mark Hyman
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Indra Nooyi was the head of Pepsi, tried to improve them, got fired.
Mark Schneider, head of Nestle, tried to move towards regenerative and improving Nestle's food supply, got fired.
It's a litany of dead bodies in this industry.
I'll give you an example of malicious behavior.
There are a couple.
One, in California, there was a number of years ago, there was a number of cities like Berkeley started with soda taxes, which was very threatening to the food industry.
And then a bunch of other cities started Soda Texas.
And they work, and they work, and they improve the lot of the people in those communities because the money is then used to improve those communities, education, various programs.
They went to Governor Jerry Brown, and they said, we're putting together a ballot initiative, which they launched, to prohibit any law from being passed in the state of California unless it was a two-thirds majority.
And they were putting millions of dollars behind this campaign to pass the ballot and convince voters to vote for it.
had nothing to do with food.
It would have crippled the government of California, and they knew it.
So they went to Governor Brown, and there's a picture of all the food industry guys with Governor Jerry Brown, who is the most left kind of progressive governor in America that I think has ever been voted into office.
And they said, if you don't put a stop to the soda tax, if you don't put a prohibition against any further soda taxes in California, we're going to pass this ballot.
So he did that.
He did that.
In Washington State, there was a GMO bill to label GMO foods.
I mean, I think every country except Syria and the United States levels, including China and Russia, which are not known for transparency.
And a number of the big food companies and trade associations got together and colluded illegally to put together a campaign to β
make people vote against this ballot initiative to label GMO foods.