Vani Hari
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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the sneaky ties to industry where they're going to end up going to go work for industry after they leave their four years in Washington. What's going to happen is that not only are you going to get those people that get these issues in, but they want to make it more efficient.
make some of this make it so that it doesn't take 30 years to ban red three which is what just happened right when they banned it out of cosmetics 30 years ago but left it in food because the maraschino cherry industry decided to lobby lobby congress and they used the power of the alcohol industry because the maraschino cherries is what drove alcohol sales and so the alcohol industry is the one that was the most concerned about this right so they
you know lobbied the fda to keep it in food and so like if we can prevent those things from happening to to make sure that there's common sense scientific regulations happening in our regulatory bodies then we have some hope i think back to this very simple thought we look at our life expectancy we see that it is less than every single other developing nation we see that i think we're like just we're just we're just i think a little bit uh below albania
Yeah, I mean, but we spend the most on health care. And if we can start looking at the root cause of what's happening, I think that's where, you know, things can change. And you've talked a little bit about this just a minute ago, how this is a bipartisan effort. Really, health should not be political. But the way that the big food companies and big chem will win is if they make it political.
And they make it so that half the country is against the other half of the country. And so if you see these fights start to break out where people are fighting against what Bobby's trying to do and Dr. Marty McCary at the FDA, and they're doing progress, right? Or they're trying to make some headway. I mean, I'm just even thinking about how
There's already this kind of narrative like, oh my gosh, all these people got asked to leave in HHS. And it's like, what do you expect? This is a new wave of thinking. They want new fresh blood in. They want new people in. And the fact that Jim Jones just... for example, resigned.
That's right. He was he was head of U.S. Foods. They had Kyle right in there to take his reins. And that wasn't something that happened overnight. That was something that's been in the works for months. OK, because, again, there's this there's this amazing.
It's funny because I'm watching these narratives take place in the media and I'm seeing how they want to make this administration look bad, but they don't know what's been happening behind the scenes.
And behind the scenes, Bobby Kennedy has been looking at his transition team for so long and trying to work on all of the different people that are going to be in place in these different high level positions. And so the fact that they were able to, you know, announced that so quickly right after is not because they went and found Kyle and interviewed him and figured it all out.
They've known him for a while, right? And they've been grooming him into this position. And so it's something that, again, is... I'm watching the political theater happen, but then I also have insight of what's happening behind the scenes. And so it's such a, it's such an interesting thing for me because again, politically I've been jaded because again,
I had a lot of hope for President Obama and Michelle Obama in these issues. You know, when he said he would label GMOs, I thought he was going to do it, right? But he didn't mention it one time in the first four years. And so I, again, ran again for delegates so that I can hold him accountable for that. And so I think there's this...
Absolutely. And so, you know, when I saw that go down, I just was like, OK, I'm not I'm not going to put my political capital behind a leader again. I'm going to work on these issues and I'm going to be an activist and I'm going to I'm going to stay out of the political game. Right.
But I kind of got thrust back in it now because we have for the first time in history, somebody who wants to fix these issues and has made it part of their campaign. And and has been very clear about it. And it's given me more hope than I've ever had in my life. And it's made me now get back into politics.
And again, it can be so dirty when you're watching the media try to pit everybody against each other. But this is the message I want to give out to your listeners. I want you to think through the politics. I want you to think through the politics. And I want you to think about what we're saying here.
Americans should not be consuming these chemicals, especially when these companies have already removed them in other countries. We should not be giving Coca-Cola and Pepsi subsidies from the government for the SNAP program, for example.
Like they should not be getting a handout from the government, from our taxpayer money, a sugary junk drink that provides no nutritional value to these lower income families. This is something that's got to stop. We've got to get out the conflicts of interest that have allowed the food companies to control our government agencies, right?
Like when you look at those three things on its base value, there's nobody that can't that can argue against that, right? I mean, this is something that, and they won't try to argue.
Yeah. I mean, I think getting involved, becoming an activist, and I think this was what's been so beautiful about the Food Babe Army, who I call, you know, the community that, you know, not only care about their own health, but they're willing to call these companies and ask for change. They're willing to meet me at the headquarters of these companies now and meet me in Washington too.
It's been so incredible. And I think there's, going back to what you said earlier, there's so much state legislation happening at the state level. So everybody can get involved. I think there's over 23 states that have enacted some type of introduced some type of legislation either to remove dyes or banned dyes or create warning labels.
There's been SNAP legislation to remove Coca-Cola and PepsiCo dollars from SNAP and other junk food. There's been other legislation being discussed as well around ultra-processed foods and the European regulations. So there's stuff happening at the state level, which is so exciting because an
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