Behind the Scenes of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Movement with Food Activist Courtney Swan
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What is Courtney Swan's journey into food activism?
Courtney, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you so much for having me.
We're recording this on a kind of a pretty important day. Do you want to tell our audience what's happening today?
What happened during RFK Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing?
So this morning was a Senate hearing confirmation for RFK Jr. And that was, did you watch it?
I watched, I kind of caught a little bit late because I had something in the morning, but I came in at a very contentious moment. It got pretty contentious with a few senators.
It was honestly uncomfortable to watch. Yeah. It was hard, too. I don't know.
I felt like he handled himself extremely well.
Oh, yeah. Just from the way that the senators were going after him, it just, I don't know, it kind of broke my heart because I've been following his work for probably about 10 years now.
Yeah, talk about it and talk about yourself in the context of it. If some people know you've been part of the Maha movement, you've been raising awareness, you went to Capitol Hill, you've Long before that, you've been a food advocate for a long time, helping people understand what's really in our food, sounding the alarm, why it needs to be a national conversation. But bring us up until this point. What's your role and how have you been involved with this movement? And what do you think about everything that's going on?
Yeah, I mean, it's wild. I never thought I would find myself here. I mean, I was in school. So in 2011, I was getting my master's of science in nutrition. And around that time, I was finding the works of people like Vani Hari. We just brought her up, the food babe, Dr. Mark Hyman, Michael Pollan. And they were really trying to sound the alarm back then about what was happening with our food system. But largely, it was being ignored, especially by our media and by our So I got very involved in it back then because I felt like the American people needed to know what was happening with their food. You know, we were blindly being poisoned. And even though when you feel like you're maybe making the right choices and making healthy choices, if you don't know how to navigate all this, like chances are you may not be. So I was so passionate about this. And then fast forward, I just ended up in this Maha movement. But I've been doing this for about 15 years now. Like this isn't a trend thing that I've just been jumping onto.
And I said this earlier that I have been following Bobby's work for about 10 years now. I love him. He's an environmental environmental lawyer. He also was on the litigation team against Monsanto. It was a guy that was spraying on. Yes, exactly. The groundskeeper. And he got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. And Bobby was very famously on that litigation team.
How does the younger generation view chronic disease?
And this is something that I'm incredibly passionate about that we can talk more about. The glyphosate thing is a really big issue. So watching that confirmation today and seeing these senators just rip into him and knowing that this man... is taking bullets right now for the American people because he genuinely cares. He also said this. He said, I don't need to be here. I have a happy life. I have a happy family. I'm not getting anything out of this. He's like, it's not like I'm getting a significant amount of money in this position. He's doing this because he cares, because he thinks that we need a reform in our healthcare system. And so seeing this pushback, and then you look... I have been going hard on this online today, but if you look at all the senators that are pushing back on him and they're making millions of dollars off of pharmaceutical companies and that's the whole reason they're going after him because they're all scared that it's going to be exposed.
You know, if you look at the history of Bobby, it's like for a long time, he was a darling of the left because he was going after all these companies that were polluting the environment, the Hudson River that were sort of using corporate capture as a way to skirt around regulation. And then, you know, we've gone through this big period where largely, you know, we've had this sort of
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Courtney Swan's journey into food activism?
0:00–0:07
2
What happened during RFK Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing?
0:07–2:12
3
How does the younger generation view chronic disease?
2:12–3:44
4
Why is the Make America Healthy Again movement gaining attention?
3:44–5:04
5
What are the biggest food culprits affecting our health?
5:04–5:47
6
How do toxins and plastics impact our health?
5:47–7:37
7
What solutions can we advocate for in the food system?
7:37–16:58
8
What are the actionable takeaways from this episode?
16:58–1:20:34
Speakers
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