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00:01:36.000I'm super excited for our next topic and guest.
00:01:39.000This is one of the biggest issues of the 2024 election, and it is growing in popularity and importance.
00:01:46.000Joining us now is Vani Hari, the food babe, author and activist who is leading a movement to make America healthy again with a very important event coming up soon in Michigan.
00:02:08.000And I've been fighting for safe food for now what feels like most of my life.
00:02:16.000And it all started when I hit rock bottom and I took out the additives and all of the harmful preservatives and the synthetic chemicals from my diet.
00:02:25.000And I started to realize a level of health that I never thought was possible.
00:02:29.000And I want that for all of my fellow Americans.
00:02:33.000And so I started to share this information on my blog, Food Babe.
00:02:36.000And it was quite incredible because I realized there's a community of people out there that not only care about their own health, They care enough to actually share this information in a very viral fashion and as a result was able to get major multi-billion dollar food corporations to change their policies and remove harmful chemicals from their food.
00:02:57.000Places like Kraft removing artificial food dyes in the mac and cheese, Subway removing harmful chemicals that are chemicals that we would find in yoga mats and shoe rubber.
00:03:06.000Getting the beer companies to release what's actually in beer and understanding what the ingredients are behind a beer label.
00:03:13.000For so long, we didn't know what was in a can of Bud Light or Miller Coors.
00:03:38.000They said they would do this change by 2018.
00:03:41.000And there's nobody holding this company accountable.
00:03:44.000Instead, they still serve their mainstay cereal Fruit Loops with artificial food dyes.
00:03:52.000They sell 91 million boxes of Froot Loops every single day here in America.
00:03:59.000It's up to almost a fifth of little children having maybe one bowl of this cereal a week.
00:04:05.000It's insane the amount of Froot Loops that they're selling.
00:04:09.000But also, not only do they continue to use the artificial dyes here in the United States, they're not using the artificial dyes in other countries like Canada, Australia, all of Europe, India.
00:04:21.000So they're poisoning their own American citizens with these chemicals that are linked to health issues.
00:04:28.000Back in 2010, there was a Southampton study that came out that was linking artificial dyes to hyperactivity in children.
00:04:38.000And that's when the European Union said, you know what?
00:04:41.000No longer are we going to allow food manufacturers to use this just unregulated.
00:04:46.000So we're going to enact a warning label, a Well, you know what Kellogg's did?
00:05:01.000and a lot of other food manufacturers for that matter did, they took out the artificial dyes
00:05:07.000and added things like carrot juice and blueberry juice and watermelon juice and paprika
00:05:11.000instead of using the artificial dyes so they would avoid the warning label.
00:05:16.000But instead of reformulating their products here in America for their own American citizens,
00:05:21.000they're an iconic American company by the way, and they did it.
00:05:28.000Our regulatory agencies are asleep at the wheel.
00:05:30.000The FDA allows over 10,000 chemicals in our food supply here in the United States, and there's only 400 approved for use in Europe because you have to submit safety data in Europe before a food chemical is approved for use.
00:05:44.000Here in the United States, it's the wild, wild west.
00:05:47.000The food companies themselves We're good to go.
00:06:11.000We are going to Kellogg's on October 15th in one of the most massive grassroots rally anyone's ever seen to hold American food companies accountable for this unethical and hypocritical behavior.
00:06:24.000This is time that Kellogg's serves Americans the same safer versions they sell in other countries.
00:08:35.000Is it that they don't care about our kids and they just want to try to squeeze the penny further?
00:08:40.000I mean, this is inexcusable behavior from corporate titans.
00:08:45.000Am I wrong? It is absolutely inexcusable.
00:08:48.000It's immoral that they know that their product is causing harm to children, but don't change it.
00:08:53.000And they already have the formulations.
00:08:55.000We're not asking them to reinvent the wheel.
00:08:57.000This is something they're doing for profit for two reasons.
00:09:00.000Number one, A petroleum-based dye made from coal tar, such as yellow 5, yellow 6, red 40, is not going to break down on the shelf as fast.
00:09:09.000Also, the endocrine-disrupting chemical that they're adding to the bags in America, but not in other countries, called BHT, is another preservative that they're using.
00:09:18.000So they can keep the product longer on shelf in America And so they make more money.
00:09:24.000The second reason how they make more money is they make it a little bit brighter with the artificial food dyes.
00:09:29.000And so when you see a product, and I have them right here if you want to see them.
00:09:39.000You see that the American version is a little bit brighter.
00:09:42.000They found in focus groups that children will eat more of this product.
00:09:47.000So not only are they contributing to health issues such as hyperactivity, they're contributing to the obesity epidemic that we're seeing in our young children.
00:09:59.000I mean, look, parents have got to step up.
00:10:00.000And I want to talk about the Bobby Kennedy Make America Healthy Again agenda, how it ties to President Trump, because I wish food was not political.
00:10:09.000But so much of this goes through our regulatory agencies, goes through what the federal government can do.
00:10:15.000And should do because this is a public health crisis.
00:10:18.000We have a chronic disease epidemic in this country that is affecting our kids.
00:10:23.000Half of our kids by the age of 15 are chronically obese or overweight.
00:10:27.000Only 3% of the kids in Japan are chronically obese or overweight.
00:10:30.000It's not as if other countries are poisoning their kids.
00:10:33.000We're the leader in poisoning our children.
00:11:51.000Yes, we're demanding that Kellogg's drop artificial food dyes and the endocrine-disrupting chemical called BHT that they use here in the American cereals, but not in other countries.
00:12:03.000We're going to be marching at their headquarters on October 15th, Tuesday at 10.30 a.m.
00:12:09.000At Friendship Park, there's going to be a massive grassroots rally, and then we are going to march and knock on the door of Kellogg's headquarters.
00:12:17.000I'm going to be asking the public that day to call the headquarters and demand that we sit down with people in charge to make these changes possible.
00:12:26.000Can we talk about the politics of food?
00:12:28.000Like all things, where there's trillions of dollars and billions of profit, there's very powerful people that tend to capture our politicians and our regulatory agencies to do things that are not in the best interest of the body politic, but instead of corporate interests.
00:12:44.000Talk about the politics of food and how encouraging it is to have Bobby Kennedy involved in a national voice to try to reform this.
00:12:53.000Well, let me just tell you, I have been involved in politics for a long time and I got out of the game for a really long time because I was so jaded.
00:13:02.000You know, I was a delegate for President Obama for two years in a row in 2008 and 2012.
00:13:14.000This is something that I was really excited about because he had talked about how he wanted to label genetically engineered ingredients and how he wanted to get this done.
00:13:27.000And I just remember all of the blowback that the food and chemical industry gave to him and to Michelle Obama when they entered the office.
00:13:38.000And they changed the narrative from the focus on food and chemicals to let's be healthier by moving more, right?
00:13:47.000But that is not going to solve the root issue in terms of how we're being poisoned by these chemicals.
00:13:53.000I got super jaded with politics, and it wasn't until recently where I was invited to be part of Senator Ron Johnson's Senate Roundtable that I felt like I had my voice back, that I actually have a chance actually to get this message out in a political arena.
00:14:11.000You know, that room was filled with so many people that are passionate about saving humanity, helping fix the chronic disease issue and looking at the root cause of all the corruption, all of the different organizations and regulatory agencies that are being funded by these chemical and food and pharma companies.
00:14:31.000And we were able to, for four hours during that session, Unfiltered.
00:14:40.000We talked about it in a nonpartisan fashion about how to save humanity, and it was so beautiful.
00:14:47.000It was doctors from John Hopkins, from Harvard, from Stanford, sitting in the room talking about their experience on how no one's addressing the root cause of disease, which is metabolic disease, which is what we're eating, all the different factors, how we live our lifestyles, how all those things can impact the trajectory of disease here in America.
00:15:11.000This just goes back to, again, another situation where it was really Just so sad that was happening during the COVID years where nobody was talking about the fact that the people who were dying, the people who were really being affected by the virus, were the people that were metabolically sick.
00:15:31.000There was not one single voice on the national stage that the mainstream media allowed to talk about the real issue of, like, We're good to go.
00:15:59.000And things have to change if we're going to change the way our health is in this country.
00:16:06.000And now with RFK's leadership and the fact that his track record speaks for itself, you know, people really want to pigeonhole me.
00:16:15.000They're like, you know, Vani, do you think this is actually going to happen?
00:16:20.000Do you think that this is just all political talk?
00:16:23.000Is this just a politicalization of the topic?
00:16:28.000When you look at RFK's record in terms of how he went head-to-head with Monsanto to literally hold them accountable in a way where billions of dollars were awarded to plaintiffs For glyphosate-causing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and being involved in the chemical fight in that arena, of course this guy is going to fight for you.
00:16:56.000This is so important. Again, this is not political.
00:16:58.000This is about health. And unfortunately, some of this goes through government instrumentation.
00:18:22.000Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, again...
00:18:26.000I have kind of bowed out of politics for a long time lately because, again, with the COVID years, with my activism that I had during the Obama years, you know, I used my delegate status at the Democratic National Convention to actually protest in front of the Secretary of Agriculture.
00:18:44.000So that's kind of how I entered the national stage, if you will.
00:18:49.000I wrote it with my lipstick saying, label GMOs.
00:18:51.000And at the time, we didn't know whether there was a product that was bioengineered or not on the grocery store shelves.
00:18:57.000No one knew whether they were eating GMOs or not.
00:19:00.000And I felt like that was a lot of lack of transparency considering Europe and other countries had given There are citizens the opportunity to bow out of this kind of chemical intensive agriculture.
00:19:11.000And now we know that this chemical intensive agriculture is causing cancer and autoimmune disorders and all sorts of chronic diseases here in America.
00:19:21.000And it's really up to us to get the chemicals out of our food supply.
00:19:27.000What I've realized is that nobody's holding these food companies and chemical companies accountable.
00:19:34.000And someone like myself, someone like others out there that are nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Working Group, the NRDC, Center of Science and Public Interest, and others, Are out there doing this advocacy work, but they are literally railroaded in Congress.
00:19:51.000You know, they're trying to have these conversations with Democrats and Republicans, and they're really having a hard time getting a lot of this stuff to be, you know, regulated because the food companies come in and they say, you know what, we're going to fund the competitor to your boss's campaign, and so you're no longer going to have a job.
00:20:11.000And so it's like The food and chemical corporations are literally funding electors to make sure that we stay in the system.
00:20:21.000And then they fund the research that's conducted at the NIH. They're funding the CDC, the FDA. And so none of this information can get out.
00:20:31.000The truth can't get out about the chemicals in our food.
00:20:36.000And that's why I think the only way forward from this standpoint, we cannot continue on the path that we've been continuing on.
00:20:46.000We have to have someone to come in and disrupt the situation.
00:20:51.000And even this week, I saw something very interesting.
00:20:54.000There was a policies for the people And I think it was, you know, RFK introduced it under Team Trump.
00:21:03.000I'm not really sure what the political piece of it was, but I was just thumbing through there.
00:21:08.000And I couldn't believe that one of the top issues in this that was submitted by the American people for the government to address was to ban artificial food dyes, that this would make one of the top searches, you know, in the first, you know, had over 13 million votes.
00:21:26.000This is something the American people want.
00:21:31.000This is something we have to come together to fix.
00:21:33.000Why, in my Senate roundtable, at the end of my testimony, I invited both candidates to come to Battle Creek, Michigan to hold these American food companies accountable for this, because it's not just Kellogg's doing this.
00:21:48.000Yes, they are doing it and they're targeting little children, and I think that's why we have to address them first.
00:22:42.000In the U.K., there's three, and salt is optional.
00:22:46.000An ingredient called dimethylpolysiloxane is an ingredient preserved with formaldehyde, a neurotoxin.
00:22:52.000This is Skittles. Notice the long list of ingredient differences.
00:22:56.000Ten artificial dyes in the U.S. version and titanium dioxide.
00:23:01.000This ingredient is banned in Europe because it can cause DNA damage.
00:23:06.000Artificial dyes are made from petroleum, and products containing these dyes require a warning label in Europe, and they have been linked to cancer and disruptions in the immune system.
00:23:15.000Gatorade. In the U.S., they use Red 40 in caramel color.
00:23:49.000Corporate actors that just want to make money that are trying to make an easy buck and increase addiction via our food that keep it this way.
00:24:00.000Is that the explanation or is there something more sinister going on here?
00:24:04.000Well, we have to, again, we have to look at the regulations in terms of what chemicals are allowed for use here in the United States.
00:24:12.000And we need to actually force food manufacturers to prove that chemical is safe before they use it here in the United States.
00:24:20.000They can't just create a chemical in a lab or a new food substance and submit some paperwork.
00:24:27.000They know the FDA doesn't have the manpower or the know-how to review all of this data,
00:24:32.000and it just gets rubber stamped as, and it gets marked as generally regarded as safe.
00:24:37.000There was a chemical recently, actually an ingredient, that entered the American food supply,
00:24:42.000and a smoothie company was using it, and it was called TeraFlour.
00:24:48.000And it not only sickened people, it made people have like emergency gallbladder surgery
00:25:18.000Red number three is an ingredient that's allowed in lipstick, right?
00:25:23.000I'm sorry, not allowed in lipstick, not allowed in chemicals, but you can eat it.
00:25:28.000The maraschino cherry industry lobbied Congress back when they banned this chemical because it causes cancer.
00:25:35.000They lobbied them to keep it in, and because the alcohol interest was so heavy, They were able to keep it completely fine to use in food so that the maraschino cherries stayed bright bright red and all those alcoholic drinks that were popular at the time.
00:25:51.000And so this can be changed through regulatory adjustments.
00:25:56.000And let me just be as clear as I can say, how hard is it to simply ban some of these chemicals?
00:26:01.000Say, we're done. We're not going to put up with this anymore.
00:26:04.000Yeah, California is doing it right now.
00:26:07.000So in California, you can't use that, along with potassium, bromate, and a few other chemicals.
00:26:13.000California just submitted unanimous, it was voted unanimous, all Democrats, all Republicans, to ban artificial food dyes in schools in California.
00:26:25.000Okay? So this is something, again, that is bipartisan.
00:26:30.000This is something that... Every single American should listen to and find out about what they're eating.
00:26:37.000They need to start reading their ingredient list and understand the food that they're eating.
00:26:40.000I'm getting messages from the highest of A-list celebrities about these issues, like Eva Mendes.
00:26:48.000She's saying, you know, how can I get involved?
00:27:15.000And I would have never known about any of this had I not seen this on your page.
00:27:19.000And so it's like... The highest levels, I think, of awareness are starting to take place about how poisoned our food system is, and it's up to us to keep spreading the word We're not going to wait.
00:27:35.000I'm not going to wait for the government to do something.
00:27:38.000It has to be activist-driven, and it has to be bottom-up.
00:27:42.000But there needs to be a top-down perspective, too.
00:27:44.000And so, Vani, if I could, and I'm not sure even how you're going to answer, how are you thinking about this election?
00:27:50.000Someone who was literally at the DNC for Obama, someone who was jaded by politics, how are you now viewing this contest?
00:28:00.000Being very cautious in that I think it's so important to work with both sides of the aisle when it comes to these issues.
00:28:11.000And that's why at the end of my Senate roundtable, I invited both presidential candidates I've been reaching out to the Harris Waltz campaign.
00:28:21.000I've been going on podcasts, on media interviews.
00:28:28.000And it is really sad, actually, because, you know, I've been on other podcasts of people that have been kind of on that platform.
00:28:36.000On the left spectrum for most of their life thinking that, you know, that was the party of environmental regulation about chemicals getting that out of our environment.
00:28:46.000And now because RFK has teamed up with Trump, you know, this situation is a lot different in that RFK is allowing us to have a national stage on these issues that we've never had before.
00:29:02.000I don't think I would have been invited to Senator Ron Johnson's Senate Roundtable without some executive leadership at that level saying it's okay to talk about these issues I'm just thinking about, over the last month, how many people I have reached with this message as a result of that executive leadership.
00:29:23.000And that's really what we need when we talk about removing these chemicals from the American food system.
00:29:36.000Where are all the Democratic-leaning mainstream media out there, too?
00:29:41.000Like, none of them will have me on because Kellogg's and General Mills and McDonald's and all of these companies, I name names in the Senate roundtable, they pay for their advertisers, you know, and they will not have me on it.
00:29:56.000I've been through this before, you know, I've been an activist for a long time.
00:30:01.000I was dragged through the mud after I got Subway to remove chemicals and Kraft to remove chemicals and Starbucks to remove chemicals.
00:30:09.000They did whatever they could to shut me up using paid for experts.
00:30:15.000That's what they do. Yes, which I found out later through Freedom of Information Request Acts, where the chemical corporations were paying, quote-unquote, independent professors at these universities to literally show up every single time I was talked about in the article.
00:30:33.000That's the model. Vani, I think you're an American here.
00:30:35.000I think you do great. Where are the Democrats?
00:30:37.000Good question. I know that you have a home here in the Charlie Kirk Show, and I know that President Trump and Bobby Kennedy will make this a priority to the administration.
00:33:22.000You know we have election season here in Arizona and so I'm gonna go cast my vote at an early voting center and I'm encouraging you to do the same.
00:33:30.000If you have a mail-in ballot go grab that ballot.
00:33:33.000Open it up, vote Republican all the way up and down that ticket, and then get it sent back in.
00:33:40.000Or, if you like to vote in person, go to a voting center and vote there.
00:34:33.000Hospitals there that aren't being paid because people coming across illegally are getting services and they're not being paid for them.
00:34:40.000And Rubin's idea is to actually funnel billions of dollars into the NGOs that are actually taking part in transporting people further into our country.
00:34:51.000Go to the airport. Take a red eye out of Phoenix Sky Harbor.
00:34:54.000It looks like a migrant encampment because so many people are moving from Phoenix Sky Harbor to all points, all 50 states, and Gallego, Ruben Gallego has funded that.
00:35:04.000That's what he wants to do. Carrie Lake then gave a great answer on the abortion topic.
00:35:09.000Cut 112 is that 60% of people who have abortions say they would not have chosen to do so if they knew that there was financial or emotional help.
00:35:17.000It's a very, very important point here.
00:35:19.000Play Cut 112. I just saw a statistic and it broke my heart.
00:35:23.000It said that 60% of women who have an abortion would have chosen not to have one if they knew there was financial help out there or emotional help.
00:35:32.000And so if we are just offering a little bit of help to women, they will choose to have that baby.
00:35:37.000We need bigger families. We need families out there.
00:35:40.000Our birth rate is dropping to a precipitous level, actually dangerous.
00:35:45.000And we can't just import new populations.