Vani Hari
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539 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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But it makes people uncomfortable in some settings, which I find so interesting. And maybe you can comment on that because it's really interesting that it makes people uncomfortable. Yeah.
Like Senator Ron Johnson, for example, like when he announced, you know, that I was about to give my testimony.
He's like, I didn't come up with the name food, babe. Right. He just didn't want to take responsibility for it.
That's right. And so... Where?
WordPress.
In 2011.
And I gave up television to find time to blog outside of work.
Yeah, I gave up watching television.
Oh, it was great. It was the best thing I ever did. So I found time to research and write and I started to just have this insatiable curiosity about all the things that I was eating and then looking at the ingredients and posting the ingredients for people to see what they were eating. And my friends and my family, like my mom and my few friends that wanted to read my blog at the time,
But it started to reach a wider community. And I realized there's other people out there looking for this information on what they were eating. And there was a food movement starting. And it was probably when I wrote the article, Chemical Filet or Chick-fil-A, that went viral.
And Chick-fil-A invited me to their headquarters to consult on their menu changes and ingredient changes that I finally made the decision. Why did they do that? Um... They were smart. They were smart. They rolled out the red carpet. They picked me up in a cow-wrapped car. They were really smart to try to make friends with me. More food industry executives should hear that message because...
the reason why Kellogg's is suffering so bad right now is because they wouldn't let us in, right? We just recently went to their headquarters with over 400,000 signatures to get artificial food dyes and a preservative called BHT that's linked to cancer out of their cereals. And they wouldn't let us in. They wouldn't even sit down with us to take the petitions in person.
So what is that going to do to activists? It's going to rile us up. It's going to make us mad. It's going to make us go harder. And we started a national boycott. Now Fruit Loops is down 54% in the last 12 weeks on grocery store shelves. And their stock price is down.
Right.
The reason Froot Loops is such a good example, they already make... other cereals without these additives for virtually everywhere else. Canada, Australia, Europe, India, you know, everywhere almost. And this has got to stop across the board. And so Kellogg's is one example of a larger problem.
I mean, it's not, I'm concerned, number one, I think the main concern I have with Froot Loops is I don't want anyone to ever eat it again, right?
And targeted towards little children. And the biggest profit generator for Froot Loops is actually in U.S. schools. In schools.
I see. So it's being sold to schools and served for breakfast to our little children. And then it has chemicals in it that affect their brains. It causes hyperactivity. In Europe— you have a cigarette type warning label on any product that has artificial food dyes that warns parents that says may cause adverse effects on activity and attention in children.
In Europe, parents get to know, have full informed consent on a product. Here in the United States, we don't have that, right? We allow our companies to just put these poisons in our food when they've already reformulated them better for other countries. And then on top of it, these carcinogens are made from petroleum and- And these are the coloring? These are the colorings, yeah.
And just the way that they are produced create all kinds of carcinogens and other problems, immune response, allergies, other things in the human body, eczema. So one of the things that I first did when I went through my transformation is I suddenly gave up artificial food dyes. I just said, no artificial food dyes. And just that alone
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