Vani Hari
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When it came down to, you know, American companies using ingredients that are banned or heavily regulated in other countries, not in their own, you know, not, you know, they use a safer version for other countries and a more toxic version here. That is something that just needs to change and fundamentally stop.
Right. Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting. You know, when we took... the petitions to Kellogg's headquarters. And I used, you know, my Senate testimony to kind of lay the framework of that petition drop because- So this was after this Senate hearing? That's right. And so I said in my Senate testimony, I said I was going there on October 15th and you should come.
You know, I invited everybody in the room and I invited other activists and the public and they came. I mean, we had a thousand people on the ground in Battle Creek, Michigan, very hard place to get to. And we marched to Kellogg's headquarters. It was a pivotal moment in my career to see that many people care about the American food system and changing it.
And they understood that this is a much bigger issue. But when we got to the front door and they didn't let us in, they sent out a security guard. We looked up into the building and in the window, one of the executives was still in the building. They actually told most of their employees to go home that day.
On a whiteboard, that rolling whiteboard, he wrote, get off our lawn and showed it down to all of the women and the children and everybody who was gathering there that day. And it was all captured on film. And this really made a lot of people mad, made me mad. I had to cool off for a second seeing that sign. Like, I can't believe they don't even have the decency to take these petitions in hand.
I mean, when I did this with Kraft, when they were doing this with Kraft macaroni and cheese using one set of ingredients here in the United States and another in other countries, I petitioned them as well, and I delivered those petitions. They invited me in. That's what you do when someone gathers that many signatures and takes them to your headquarters.
You don't deny them entry and treat them like a terrorist, right? But since then, what's been so amazing to watch is I'm sending letters now to other big food corporations. I sent a letter to General Mills. Immediately, they responded. They didn't ignore me. And that's what I expect food corporations to be doing from this point forward because It is the biggest PR mistake ever.
Right, to not listen to us, not sit down and talk to us.
And General Mills has already created a new cereal without artificial dyes. So I think they're on their path. I think they're going to be probably one of the first to change. But again, cereal is not exactly the healthiest thing we want people to be eating.
But this is about a bigger issue, which is getting the chemicals out of the food, making it more real, having processed foods be available but not full of carcinogens and other toxins that could be affecting your brain, affecting your body, affecting your immunity. and increasing cancer incidences. We have to look at everything, right?
Thank you.
Modern Wisdom · Exposing The Food Industry’s Dangerous Lies - Vani Hari - #867 · 21 Nov 2024
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Kellogg's. So two weeks ago on October 15th, I went to Kellogg's headquarters with 400,000 signatures, took them to Kellogg's front door. to ask them to remove artificial food dyes and BHT from their cereals that they produce here in the United States. But don't do this for countries like Canada, all of the countries in Europe, Australia, India.
So basically using one set of ingredients here in the United States that are more toxic and harmful towards little children because artificial food dyes are linked to hyperactivity. They require a warning label, a cigarette type warning label in Europe when a product has artificial food dyes that says may cause adverse effects on activity and attention in children.
They've seen that when they study these different artificial food dyes, they contain carcinogens, so they're linked to cancer. They cause autoimmune disorders, eczema, asthma, and also the chemical BHT, which is an endocrine-disrupting chemical that you find in the lining of cereal bags as a preservative. They use that here in the United States, but they don't use that in other countries.
So I have been demanding that Kellogg's sell us the same safer versions of their cereals that they serve in other countries. And I've been doing this for a really long time. I've been doing it for over a decade. In 2015, Kellogg's said that they were going to make these changes. They got worldwide press about making these changes.
They got a lot of praise publicly and through the media when they made this announcement, but then they never did it. They said they would do it by 2018, and instead they created new cereals to hook modern children of today, like Baby Shark and Peeps and Little Mermaid and Elf on the Shelf and all of these different trick-or-treat type cereals to get people to buy their cereals.
And it's really sad because not only did they lie to us, they continue to sell American children an inferior, less safe version of their cereals.
At one point, I believe that Canadian cereal was being produced here in the United States and they were shipping it over the border. I think now they have a Canadian manufacturer now, a factory.
There's a few different reasons. The first reason is that a petroleum coal tar-based dye is cheaper to put into a product than carrot juice, watermelon juice, blueberry juice that they're using in other countries to color these cereals, okay, and other products for that matter. It's cheaper. The second thing is it doesn't break down as fast, right? Petroleum lasts forever.
Carrot juice, you know, goes rancid. So from a preservation standpoint of how long you can keep a cereal on the shelf... It matters. So it's all about money and it's all about greed. And the same way they're using BHT to line the insides of the cereal bags, it's a preservation thing. And the fact that the FDA has allowed our food companies here in the United States to
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