Vani Hari
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And that's what I'm so excited about because after that Senate roundtable, it was like an explosion happened with our movement. I don't know if you felt that. I mean, I just felt like it was the turning point in a way. I mean, just having Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
sit down with us and hear each one of our testimonies and him say these words to me, and I'll never forget, he said this, he said, if another foreign nation was doing this to us, it would be considered an act of war.
sit down with us and hear each one of our testimonies and him say these words to me, and I'll never forget, he said this, he said, if another foreign nation was doing this to us, it would be considered an act of war.
sit down with us and hear each one of our testimonies and him say these words to me, and I'll never forget, he said this, he said, if another foreign nation was doing this to us, it would be considered an act of war.
When it came down to, you know, American companies using ingredients that are banned or heavily regulated in other countries, not in their own, you know, not, you know, they use a safer version for other countries and a more toxic version here. That is something that just needs to change and fundamentally stop.
When it came down to, you know, American companies using ingredients that are banned or heavily regulated in other countries, not in their own, you know, not, you know, they use a safer version for other countries and a more toxic version here. That is something that just needs to change and fundamentally stop.
When it came down to, you know, American companies using ingredients that are banned or heavily regulated in other countries, not in their own, you know, not, you know, they use a safer version for other countries and a more toxic version here. That is something that just needs to change and fundamentally stop.
Right. Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting. You know, when we took... the petitions to Kellogg's headquarters. And I used, you know, my Senate testimony to kind of lay the framework of that petition drop because- So this was after this Senate hearing? That's right. And so I said in my Senate testimony, I said I was going there on October 15th and you should come.
Right. Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting. You know, when we took... the petitions to Kellogg's headquarters. And I used, you know, my Senate testimony to kind of lay the framework of that petition drop because- So this was after this Senate hearing? That's right. And so I said in my Senate testimony, I said I was going there on October 15th and you should come.
Right. Yeah, I mean, it's really interesting. You know, when we took... the petitions to Kellogg's headquarters. And I used, you know, my Senate testimony to kind of lay the framework of that petition drop because- So this was after this Senate hearing? That's right. And so I said in my Senate testimony, I said I was going there on October 15th and you should come.
You know, I invited everybody in the room and I invited other activists and the public and they came. I mean, we had a thousand people on the ground in Battle Creek, Michigan, very hard place to get to. And we marched to Kellogg's headquarters. It was a pivotal moment in my career to see that many people care about the American food system and changing it.
You know, I invited everybody in the room and I invited other activists and the public and they came. I mean, we had a thousand people on the ground in Battle Creek, Michigan, very hard place to get to. And we marched to Kellogg's headquarters. It was a pivotal moment in my career to see that many people care about the American food system and changing it.
You know, I invited everybody in the room and I invited other activists and the public and they came. I mean, we had a thousand people on the ground in Battle Creek, Michigan, very hard place to get to. And we marched to Kellogg's headquarters. It was a pivotal moment in my career to see that many people care about the American food system and changing it.
And they understood that this is a much bigger issue. But when we got to the front door and they didn't let us in, they sent out a security guard. We looked up into the building and in the window, one of the executives was still in the building. They actually told most of their employees to go home that day.
And they understood that this is a much bigger issue. But when we got to the front door and they didn't let us in, they sent out a security guard. We looked up into the building and in the window, one of the executives was still in the building. They actually told most of their employees to go home that day.
And they understood that this is a much bigger issue. But when we got to the front door and they didn't let us in, they sent out a security guard. We looked up into the building and in the window, one of the executives was still in the building. They actually told most of their employees to go home that day.
On a whiteboard, that rolling whiteboard, he wrote, get off our lawn and showed it down to all of the women and the children and everybody who was gathering there that day. And it was all captured on film. And this really made a lot of people mad, made me mad. I had to cool off for a second seeing that sign. Like, I can't believe they don't even have the decency to take these petitions in hand.
On a whiteboard, that rolling whiteboard, he wrote, get off our lawn and showed it down to all of the women and the children and everybody who was gathering there that day. And it was all captured on film. And this really made a lot of people mad, made me mad. I had to cool off for a second seeing that sign. Like, I can't believe they don't even have the decency to take these petitions in hand.
On a whiteboard, that rolling whiteboard, he wrote, get off our lawn and showed it down to all of the women and the children and everybody who was gathering there that day. And it was all captured on film. And this really made a lot of people mad, made me mad. I had to cool off for a second seeing that sign. Like, I can't believe they don't even have the decency to take these petitions in hand.
I mean, when I did this with Kraft, when they were doing this with Kraft macaroni and cheese using one set of ingredients here in the United States and another in other countries, I petitioned them as well, and I delivered those petitions. They invited me in. That's what you do when someone gathers that many signatures and takes them to your headquarters.