Vani Hari
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7 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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we gotta root out the corruption from our health agencies. We've gotta stop the conflicts of interest with big food and pharma and chemical corporations. We have close to 50% of the funding of the FDA coming from industry, and they say they're not gonna criticize the food industry.
So it's like, even if you just required the warning labels that they require in Europe on artificial food dyes, so American parents could know the harms of choosing that product and eating that ingredient,
They understand this. They can get it done. Just looking at RFK Jr. 's track record, how he won a historic $2.2 billion case against Monsanto and Roundup Wheat Killer, and it showed that it's strongly linked to cancer. I think seeing his determination, he's so incredibly passionate about this subject. And then when it comes to Dr. McCary, he's absolutely incredible. I mean, I've read his books.
He understands how corrupt medicine these institutions have been. And he also understands like looking at root cause analysis from a functional medicine perspective. And so I would much rather have someone in that position that gets these issues fundamentally. And by the way, publicly supported the fact that he's not buying Kellogg's because of this situation as well. I mean, I was floored.
I was like, yes, thank you, doctor. And it's incredible. So he gets it. He understands this.
These are simple changes we could make today that if our governments, leaders, and agencies put the hatred for each other away and just think about American children and think about how many people are on Adderall to help these issues, how fundamentally they can change American children and help improve their lives and their teachers' lives and their parents' lives.
And that's what we really need to be focused on.
38%.
There's this revolving door of people who are working for chemical and food corporations and then going to serve in government to kind of uphold their interests.
Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I've been a food activist for many years, for over 10 years. And I... have been wanting to hold American food companies accountable for using ingredients that are banned or heavily regulated in other countries for a long time. I think it's disgraceful. I think it's unethical. I think it is hypocritical.
I think it's immoral that an American food company can serve a better, safer version of their product for another country and not their own citizens and how when they find out they can make a product that's safe, they don't do it for all of their customers.
And so I've been working on this issue for a long time through petitions, through campaigns to get food companies to change because government regulators have been asleep at the wheel. They haven't held these food companies accountable. The conflicts of interest are riddled in the government that prevent them from enacting anything that would be helpful to safeguard ourselves from these chemicals.
And so when I was invited to be part of the Senate roundtable with Senator Ron Johnson, at first I said no, actually, because for many years I've been off the scene. I haven't been holding the food companies accountable in that big, bold way because I became a mom. I started a food company to change the food industry from within. I took kind of a backseat to this activist role because
You could say my nurturing phase of my life became more important to safeguard my kids. And when I was an activist and I hit the national level and the national stage, I was attacked. I was attacked by the media. I was attacked by paid for scientists. I was attacked by quote unquote independent experts who were actually getting paid by the food industry.
And to the point where I had to have security when I went to go speak at universities. I had people drive by my house. I had, you know, death threats, rape threats online. So that work going up against a trillion dollar industry kind of took a backseat when I became a mom and then- When did you become a mom? Almost eight years ago now.
Yeah. And so earlier this year, I was called upon to be part of this new kind of campaign to hold big food accountable. And my friend, Jason Karp, who was also at the Senate hearing yesterday, called me and says, Bonnie, this is something I really want to do. Let's get together and figure this out. And then we got together with Callie Means as well. And we started working together again.
And it was like my passion was reignited. And I realized that we really have an opportunity at this point in time that I never thought was possible in my entire career with the emergence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking these issues at the national level.
Nothing, nothing like it.
It really did. And, you know, for so much of my life, I was jaded about politics. I, you know, I was a... a Democrat delegate for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, I put him up on a pedestal. I thought he was gonna be the savior of our world. And when he got into office, I quickly realized that special interests, lobbyists, corporations,
were controlling him and controlling the message and controlling what he could get done. And then the two-party system itself allowed him not to get much done.
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