Vani Hari
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539 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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I thought they were going to invite us in and we were going to hand off the petitions in person, whether they talked to us or told us we have to agree to disagree, which is what Kraft did several years ago before they changed eventually.
um you know i didn't know what was going to happen but i never expected a security guard to come out and receive those petitions and no one representing actual kellogg's being there to talk to us like i couldn't believe it yes they had a security guard and so you know when we looked up into the building we saw the executives some still left in the building they actually told all of their employees to go home that day
And so nobody was going in and out of the building. And we looked up and there were still some executives in the building and they started looking down at us and they were smiling, making faces. And eventually one guy brings over a rolling whiteboard and writes, get off our lawn to all the women and children behind me that are
you know, supporting this cause and asking Kellogg's to uphold their commitment and, you know, do what's right. And it was it was such a moment of like, how stupid can you be as a corporation to do that, to Well, a group of people that truly care about changing the food system.
But also, if anything, they added fire to the to the to the movement because it was, you know, if they had sat down with us that day, they would have inoculated us in a way because we would have said, oh, they're listening. Oh, they they're they're going to take time to think about this. Maybe they'll communicate with us, whatever. Right.
But instead, they turned their back on us, told us to get off their lawn. And that's when the national boycott happened, which resulted in the numbers that you just talked about. And now, you know, what's very interesting is their stock price recently just went up and shot up all of a sudden. And I was like, wait, what's going on? There's got to be something that's happening, right?
Well, what's happening is there are companies looking at taking it over. Private companies like Ferrero is the candy maker on the street that's looking at taking over Kellogg's. And this is actually something that happened shortly after this all was going down.
When I was talking to a consultant in the food industry and trying to figure out what was going on at Kellogg's, they said things are so backwards there that they cannot figure out how to actually make this change without losing a lot of money.
So one way that they would do it to be viable is actually take their company private, make the changes, and then eventually come back as a public company later on. That was one way that this consultant recommended that this could happen. And I'm like, oh my gosh, that's actually what's about to happen, I think, because this is what the market is seeing right now. And so
I don't know what the future holds for Kellogg's. I know that they've suffered in terms of PR. They've suffered in terms of brand value. I can tell you Fruit Loops sales are down as well as all of their cereals. Most of their cereals are down. I don't know if all of them are, but I have to go back and look at the latest data, but But the majority of them are down.
Apple Jacks, even Raisin Bran was down because people were like, you know what? We're not supporting Kellogg's because they did this to the American public because really it's about the fact that they continue to sell poisonous ingredients to children here in the United States and not in other countries. And that's the argument that nobody can argue with. And it's time for that to change.
And everyone knows it. And the best way to get Kellogg's to respond at this point is to make sure your school does not serve Kellogg's for breakfast or any Kellogg's products, because that's you know, one of the ways that they make money because they're allowed to sell this to different schools across the nation.
So even though you might make the choice at the grocery store, your child still could be consuming this product and other children out there that may not know the truth about these artificial dyes and how they affect their brains.
They call it a sanitarium, which is just. Yeah, it's just such a weird name. Yeah.
Yeah, you know, I actually wrote a whole book about this because I was so... I'm stunned at what happens when you start to tell the truth about the food industry. And, you know, you've been such an amazing leader in this movement, a hero in this movement, Dr. Mark Hyman. I mean, you know, just...
It's so funny, I had a memory pop up just this week, 10 years ago, my book hit number one in the nation. And it said Bonnie Hari and Dr. Mark Hyman, because you wrote the foreword for that. And it was so awesome to see your name right next to mine right there. And it's just this reminder of how long we've been doing this work and how it was...
It was leaders like you that backed me up early on and said, she's telling the truth, guys. Like, this is true, right? When everybody was trying to take me down because when I was getting big corporations to remove a lot of these chemicals from their foods, like Subway removing azodicarbonamide, which...
Ended up getting almost every bread manufacturer in America to remove that chemical that you can find in yoga mats and shoe rubber. That, you know, when it's heated, it turns into a carcinogen. Definitely should not be in our food. But of course, they're not using it in other countries, but still using here in the United States. Still approved for use by the FDA today.
you know, getting the artificial dyes out of Kraft macaroni and cheese, getting the beer companies to be more transparent and release the ingredients in beer, getting Starbucks to remove caramel coloring from their products and post their ingredients and getting Chipotle to go GMO free. I think that one really angered the biotech industry.
And so they created like a paid for campaign to destroy my character anytime I was written about in any mainstream media article or I was featured on television, they would attack that TV station or attack that news outlet. When I was on the cover of a magazine, they attacked the magazine on Amazon, bringing down its rating.
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