Vani Hari
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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You know, they were doing so many different things like a coordinated campaign attack that was being, we found out it was being funded primarily through Monsanto. And we found out through the Freedom of Information Request Act when I
submitted these requests to these different ex quote-unquote experts that were showing up in all of these different articles being the attack dog in them using their credentials as a professor or a phd or whatever um to say she doesn't know what she's talking about she's pseudoscientific she's a fear monger whenever they would use it was it was kind of like the basic like
trio of arguments every time. Fear monger, pseudoscientific. She's dumb. She doesn't know what she's talking about. She doesn't have a degree. They use their credentials against me. And so then I found out that there's this sinister group
of what they call front groups that you mentioned, you know, that sounds so reputable, like to the average bystander and person on the street, the American Council for Science and Health. Wow, that sounds so profound and so amazing, right? And they have all these doctors and then you find out that they've gotten money from every single big food, big pharma, big chem doctor
to literally be their mouthpiece in the media and to be their attack dog because they can't be seen as the person actually attacking these activists, right? Like you can't, Kellogg's doesn't want to find out, like you don't want to find out Kellogg's is doing it because people will stop eating Kellogg's, right? But if they use these front groups,
to do it then they can kind of get away with this these type of attacks and a lot of times these character assassinations will stop people from speaking out and i would have to say there was a moment in time in 2015 after my book hit number one and then a bunch of other accolades started to occur and and i started to get some really big momentum and getting food companies to start changing there was this just kind of snowball effect of so many food companies starting to change like
Companies I didn't even have to petition or campaign about. I just would write about and they would change. Like, for example, Papa John's removed all artificial ingredients. You know, Subway eventually ended up removing all artificial ingredients. So many different chains just started to follow suit. And when they saw that power, they immediately unleashed kind of a gauntlet on me.
And I just remember... kind of, you know, I just, I also, I think, you know, there was a time period where, and I don't know if I can say this, you can edit this out, but even our, our common publisher was worried of you actually being on the cover of my book as a, as a, as a forward, because, you know, I was getting attacked so much.
You did, you held firm and that's the hero that you are because you're standing for truth. And I love that about you in the library.
you know, having this conversation so many years later still, but it's, you know, at the time I had to kind of like look back and say, you know, and I had some amazing guidance from some amazing people that came into my life and was like, you know, they just kind of taught me the ways and they're like, Hey, did you think the evil people of the world are just going to sit back and take this?
No, they're not. And I think this is one of the reasons why I'm so spiritually connected to Bobby Kennedy, because he's also endured this enormous attack on his character and this narrative that they've placed in the media about who he is that he's not. And, and, and that is something that I experienced and into the point where it made me at one point want to stop doing this work.
I was very concerned. And I, I'd have to say, even when I became a mom shortly thereafter, it pushed me back from this work because I was so scared because I was getting death threats and rape threats and people driving by my house and, you know, having to have security when I went to go speak at different universities and
And that is something that I said, OK, well, maybe I need to to take a step back and try to change the food industry some different way. And I did that by creating my own company with trying to change the food industry from the inside out. And but it's kind of like, you know, when you find your calling, it keeps calling.
And that is you can say that that's what's happened to me in this in this realm of like why I'm back in the game and why I wanted to take on Kellogg's and why I wanted to take on this issue that, again, I've been fighting for for so long. And I think what I also figured out was that this mission is bigger than just myself.
And when I kind of separated my body and my being and my body, Hari, from what's happening on the outside to me, that was the moment that I said, okay, this is the mission is bigger than just myself. So whatever happens to me in terms of being attacked or whatever, it doesn't matter because I can help.
One more person not suffer the way I suffered as a child and prevent that suffering, then this work is worth it. And I started to just focus on willing. I started to ignore the haters online, which were actually a paid for group, you know, coordinated to attack me. I started to call them out by writing a whole book about it, naming names.
Feeding You Lies.
You know, I think this time we definitely have a little bit more power than just the first lady. I think there's only so much the first lady could get done without being in a position of heading a department, for example, that oversees all of this, being the director of the FDA.
President Obama, you know, back then put Michael Taylor as, you know, the deputy director of the FDA, someone who was, you know, coming from Monsanto. Yeah. There were a lot of conflicts of interest within those organizations that prevented Michelle Obama from doing what she really wanted to do.
I think that's what makes this time so different because Bobby gets that the conflicts of interest need to be removed. And the gutting of these agencies that you're seeing where they're asking several hundred people to leave is because they want new blood in there. People that actually get these issues, that are going to be intellectually honest about these issues, that don't have...
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