Vani Hari
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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in europe don't have artificial food dyes don't have msg in them right gatorade is made with carrot and blueberry juice and here it's red 40 and we get sodium benzene and i look at cinnamon toast crunch from general mills this is something i grew up on i love that cereal and they're using a caramel color level four made from ammonia that the international for research an agency in cancer
determined that that specific coloring causes cancer in rats. That should not be in a cereal we are giving to schools to serve children that mothers and fathers across the country are buying for their children. This is an unnecessary chemical that these companies have already shown that they can make the same product without these harmful chemicals.
When, again, I go back to that day at the Senate, when I gave that testimony, it was like the whole room was electrified. Everybody got this issue and everybody understood that this needed to change, including the leaders in that room. And when RFK Jr. went out on the campaign trail, post that round table, it was amazing. He carried my voice. He carried the message.
And he took it to the campaign trail and he said, hey, one of the first things I'm going to do when I'm put in a position of power is I'm going to ask the cereal companies to remove these diets. I don't know if it's going to be that easy by just asking them to do that.
But I think with the position that he's in now and the leadership that's going to be supporting him, like Dr. Marty McCarran, who's also giving testimony that day that I got to know and saw how he wants to look at the root cause of disease. You know, I can see that this new leadership understands that these problems could probably get solved for the first time ever.
And when I look at the rates of ADHD and how over 3 million children are on some kind of ADHD medication, that over 7 million children are diagnosed with it. So many parents are looking for answers of why their kids can't sit still in school or they're having behavioral issues or they're having learning problems. And this is the one thing that we can solve.
We've seen that other nations are doing it and we see that they have better health outcomes as a result. And I think this is just one of the things that would be a really easy win for the American people if our government leaders could figure this out.
Ideally, I think we would want first scientific review of all of the artificial food dyes, for sure. Because... There has been no scientific review by the FDA done, for example, on RED40 in over a decade. And we know red 40, the amount that was originally kind of tested in terms of an impact on humans was very small to the point where it's being used now.
It's being inundated in just about everything that we eat. And so it's in a conventional grocery store setting. So this is something that I think we need real scientific review on. to ban these chemicals from our food supply if they warrant that, right?
And based on the scientific review that I've done personally just on, and I know you've done too on, I think there's 80 different studies that show some kind of harmful effect of dyes on children. I think that alone should warrant a warning label. And that can be implemented within six months, I think. You could ask the manufacturers to do that.
And that warning label alone would not only motivate the food companies to remove artificial food dyes from their products, but it would also educate the public on the effects of these dyes. And could you imagine every single morning you take that box of cereal and you put it on your counter or on your breakfast table or whatever. And you know everybody reads the box of cereal on the back, right?
And imagine having that warning on there every single day. those companies are not going to want that, right? And so I think that is one step towards transparency. It's one step towards education. I think that could help move the market in the right direction. The grass loophole that you mentioned, that 100% has to be closed.
We actually have to have some scientific review of chemicals that are introduced into our food supply. Someone needs to be able to say, hey, this is something that shouldn't be in our food supply, or you need to provide more safety data on this. We need to adopt that precautionary principle that Europe does.
Also, the ingredient monodiglycerides, which is a new chemical that you've seen and kind of replaced that partially hydrogenated oil, that acts very similar to those trans fatty acids and contains minute amounts of trans fatty acids. When I spoke to all of these different food scientists from Cornell University about this chemical, because I was shocked.
to see that this molecule still contains trans fatty acids, but doesn't need to be labeled as that on the label. So the food industry figured out a trick to make it so that the fats and the oils don't break down in the product by using this chemical. This is something that you'll find in bread, at the grocery store, you'll find in crackers, you'll find in just about every fast food.
It's a really kind of nasty chemical that I think that nobody should be eating.
Yeah, it does. And I think there's going to be a lot of nuance in terms of determining the levels of ultra processed food. But I think if we can give... consumers some real education about what ultra-processed means versus processed, I think that's the first step. And I own a food company called Trivani, and we make a processed bar, right?
But we use ingredients you would find in your own kitchen. Nuts, seeds, maple syrup, dates, right? That's a type of product that you want to consume, that you can recognize the ingredients, that they would be something that you would combine in your own kitchen.
not something that has the monodiglycerides and the natural flavors and like all of these other chemicals that the food industry uses to kind of trick your brain into liking a food more than you should and creating that addictive quality that has been so problematic in the rise of obesity in this country and why so many people have a problem with
That is a really interesting question. And I find it so unbelievable that they haven't done anything yet. But, you know, that day when we went there to deliver the petitions, I thought they were going to meet with us.
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