Vani Hari

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Modern Wisdom · Exposing The Food Industry’s Dangerous Lies - Vani Hari - #867 · 21 Nov 2024 podcast

to create these chemicals, to approve these chemicals for use under their own safety data, not any third-party regulatory fashion. This is happening in the food companies themselves. They've decided it's okay to use these chemicals. And the FDA hasn't even reviewed, for example, red number 40 since 1971.

And they don't even know the amount that the American public is consuming at this point, which we've done some studies and data and there's been a study done in Purdue University about how it's been a dramatic increase in terms of over 500% increase since food dyes were introduced to our food supply in terms of how much we're actually consuming as the American public. And

This is something that food companies continue to do because no one's holding them accountable. And this is why I had to march to Kellogg's headquarters to do this. Because no one's doing it.

Right. Yeah, we have we have the worst food system in the world. And we have all of the big food companies that are American food companies making better, safer products overseas for all these other countries. And this is something that has to be addressed. First of all, I believe that it is a moral obligation, an ethical obligation. If you can make your product safer, then you should do that.

And not doing it is anti-American, especially when it's an American company doing this. And the worst part about it is that these food companies know their product is causing harm because 20 years ago, when the Southampton study came out, European regulatory agencies decided that they would put the cigarette-type warning label on any product that contains dyes.

And when they did that, these food manufacturers in America didn't want that warning label. They said, oh, no, we don't want to warn parents that this could cause hyperactivity. So we're going to voluntarily remove these chemicals from our products and we're going to create a safer version for all of these other countries. That right there is completely sinister.

To find out that your product could cause this issue in children and decide not to change it across the board. And that policy, that unethical business practice has to stop with American companies. And that's why we have targeted Kellogg's first with our campaign. And me and other amazing health leaders, doctors, activists,

are going to go after the entire food industry at this point because this is something that's happening not only with Kellogg's. It's happening at McDonald's. It's happening with PepsiCo. It's happening with General Mills. It's happening at Kraft Heinz. It's happening everywhere across the board. And I want to send a huge message to the food industry that they can't get away with this anymore.

If they are already making a product that has less chemicals and is safer, they have to do it for their own American citizens.

We've created a toxic soup, Chris. Over the last 50 or so years, the majority of food chemicals that have been produced and put into our food supply have been invented for one sole purpose, and that's to improve the bottom line of the food industry.

Everything from a preservative chemical to an addictive chemical that makes you eat more of that product than you should, the mouthfeel, the emulsifiers, the flavorings that trick your old factory system in your head every time you open up a package or you rip open a bag. Every single ingredient, I would say 99% of them, are there to make the food company's money and not improve our health.

And so the majority of foods in the grocery store right now, I would say anything in a package or box or bag that doesn't have five or less ingredients is something that is literally harming your health because the ingredient itself, first of all, likely doesn't have safety data around it.

There's this underlying implication that when a food chemical or anything that's been introduced to the food supply goes through rigorous testing at the FDA— There is nobody at the FDA testing anything. They actually look at the data that the food companies themselves produce and they just let it be called generally regarded as safe.

There's no one actually holding the food companies accountable and saying, hey, we need to look at these chemicals and see the safety data and prove that these chemicals are safe before we allow them in our food system.

Well, I mean, there's a couple of things at play here. The food companies basically started to get bought up several years ago by the tobacco companies.

And the tobacco companies started to use the same technology that they learned on how to hook Americans to cigarettes and the world to cigarettes and basically use that same science and technology in our brains when we would start to eat processed food.

And so they started to use this complicated kind of laboratory experiments where they would measure our bliss point in our brain, measure our taste response, when we would eat a certain product, everything down from the type of texture the product is. A lot of people don't know that processed foods are manufactured in a way for you to consume them very fast. Think about cheese balls, for example.

They melt in your mouth, right? You just digest them so quick. And so your body doesn't even have the time to catch up with its own society for you to stop and you end up eating half the bag, right? The same thing is with bread. If you get grocery store bread,

a loaf of it, it's so soft and so processed that you could eat five, six, seven slices of that in the same time it would take you to eat sourdough bread that you would make in your oven at home where you have to, you know, really chew through the crust. You really have to, you know, take your time to chew it and eat it.

And your body and your society hormones and everything start to work and you're like, okay, I've had enough bread. But that's not the case with processed food. It's literally manufactured so that you eat more than you should. And everything from the texture to the taste to the flavorings that they add and the different additives that they add. I mean, I want to talk about natural flavoring.

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