Vani Hari

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

I think a lot of manufacturers have started to remove cottonseed, although you see it all the time. It's everywhere. And... This is something that is pervasive in our food supply. And so when I'm looking for a product to buy on the shelf, I look for things made with olive oil. I look for things made with coconut oil. I look for things made with avocado oil. And that's about it.

And I use grass-fed butter and ghee at home to cook with. And I eliminate all seed oils. So that's like the first thing that you'd want to do. The second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup. Not only is that also made from genetically engineered corn, and have all those chemicals associated with the crops. But the way it's produced also disrupts your, it primes you for metabolic syndrome.

It primes your body for insulin resistance. And so this is something you want to take out of your diet. And this is, you'll find everywhere. It's in Coca-Cola. It's in soda. It's in the majority of things that you find on grocery store shelves, unfortunately. Then you want to look at, sorry, go ahead.

And then you want to look at all of the different artificial ingredients that are allowed in food. I'll give you a great example. Red number three was banned in cosmetics because it caused cancer.

But when they were ready to ban it in food, the alcohol industry lobbied the FDA and said, no, you need to allow it still in food because it makes our maraschino cherries that we have in all of our popular alcoholic drinks red. And so we need to keep those maraschino cherries with that red number three dye. So you need to still allow it in food. So you can't use it in lipstick.

But it's still allowed in food. And that shows you what a wild, wild west kind of situation we have with our government agencies and how they're completely co-opted by industry. And one of the things that I think needs to happen immediately at the FDA is remove all industry funding from the FDA. And it should be a government funded organization.

It should not have any type of industry funding coming into it.

Well, one of the things that has happened recently, and I wrote about it in my book, Feeding You Lies, is the food industry will use groups that look very reputable. to defend their chemicals and their food greed policies, right? They will hire corporate, you know, different organizations. Like I'll give you one great example.

The American Council of Science and Health sounds so reputable, sounds so like you, yes, we need to listen to the American Council of Science and Health. But this is an organization that has taken funding. It's like the who's who of corporations. Everyone from Big Pharma, Big Chem, and Big Food. They've taken money from Kellogg's. They've taken money from Coca-Cola.

They've taken money from Bayer. They've taken money from Syngenta, McDonald's. I mean, it is insane. And their main objective is to do character assassination on anyone who is speaking out about their products and then to also confuse the public into thinking that consuming these chemicals and these foods are completely safe.

And they've just released a hit piece on myself and Eva Mendez, who has been a huge supporter of our campaign on Kellogg's and Dr. Will Cole. And this is what they do. And back in the day when I was going up against a lot of these food giants, I was very naive. I didn't know that I would literally have paid organizations trying to take me down.

And it was pretty much right after I think I got Subway to remove azodicarbonamide, a chemical that you find in yoga mats and shoe rubber. You know, if you turn a yoga mat sideways and you look at the air bubbles,

Well, it evenly disperses the air bubbles in rubber. Well, it does the same thing in bread. And so they wanted the bread to look and feel the same in every single Subway. You know, that's what fast food is, right? You want it to be the same in uniform. And so this was a chemical they were not using in other countries. If you got caught using it in Singapore, you got fined $450,000.

And I petitioned Subway to remove this chemical because I didn't think eating that chemical was eating fresh. And Michelle Obama at the time had partnered with Subway in her Let's Move campaign. And I was like, wait a minute, does she not know the truth about Subway that there's close to 50 ingredients in the piece of bread at Subway? Like she needs to know.

And so I started this petition and it went so viral that the company by the end of the week made the decision to remove the chemical. And not only that, but every single bread manufacturer in America virtually removed the chemical too. So we shut down the azodicarbonamide chemical factory. Okay.

So you can only imagine how much money was involved with reformulation, removing that chemical, changing all the ingredient lists, all the packaging, all the things that the food industry had to do at that point.

Yeah, they were not happy. And so as a result, I started to be targeted by these organizations, these front groups, and paid for in, quote, unquote, independent experts that started to show up in every single article that was detailing my work. On one hand, it would say, you know, Bonnie has gotten these chemicals out with her food babe army and all these concerned citizens.

And on the other hand, she doesn't know what she's talking about. She's pseudoscientific. She's got no education. She she has no right to talk about any of these chemicals. And she is dumb as a doornail. She's a food bimbo. She gets that was that was the headline of one of the biggest lobbyists. Against me and for the food industry.

And he's quote unquote, his nickname is Dr. Evil because he does that. I mean, he was against mothers for drunk drivers. I mean, he's just an evil man. But that was a headline in the I think it was the Washington Post. Food Bimbo. Another one is she gets on all these programs because she's easier to look at.

That was written by a professor in McGill University in Canada who was getting paid by Monsanto, Bayer to attack me, which I found out through Freedom of Information Request Acts that I submitted to his university. So these are the conversations that we're having to destroy my character at the time.

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