SHOCKING! The Sinister Group Behind Your Grocery Items ｜ Candace Ep 186
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Summary
Candace goes back to the first story she ever covered on TikTok where she exposed that there's poison in baby food. Today, she's back with a story about shrimp, and why you shouldn't be eating them at all.
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Well, the Diddy trial is prosecuting the wrong case.
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And there's something fishy going on with Red Lobster's bankruptcy.
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Also, some of you might be wondering, who the hell I am?
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So, today we're going to take you all the way back to the first story I ever covered on TikTok.
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Where I exposed that there's poison in the baby food.
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A specific kind of food that most of you probably eat.
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But you probably never realize that this food has a serious dark side.
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And at the time, I had mistakenly assumed that it was because of mismanagement in some sort of private equity buyout.
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Private equity had already been there and done that way back in 2014.
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When Red Lobster had been bought out by Golden Gate Capital.
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Well, if you watched our show yesterday, you would know that they sold off all of Red Lobster's real estate in a lease-back scheme.
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Much like Toys R Us and all sorts of other brands before them.
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They actually used this lease-back scheme to finance their initial purchase of Red Lobster like a leverage buyout that we already talked about.
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But, color me surprised when I looked up who owns Golden Gate Capital.
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It was founded by former professionals from private equity firm Bain Capital.
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Led by former Bain Capital partner, David Dominick.
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So you remember how last time we talked about how Bain Capital was the private equity arm.
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But not only that, when you look up the real estate company that they partnered with in the deal.
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Later that same year, 2014, they got busted for a little $23 million accounting error.
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This is coming from a couple different sources online, as well as Wikipedia to summarize it all for us.
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The company was formerly known as American Realty Capital Properties, Inc.
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And it changed its name after an accounting scandal.
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Its name was derived from the Latin word veritas, meaning truth.
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In October 2014, the company admitted to $23 million accounting error and fired Chief Financial Officer Brian Block.
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Lawsuits allege that insiders received over $900 million in fees from the company.
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Remember, 2014, right around the time that they had just bought back all these properties from Red Lobster.
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That's when they were doing this whole accounting error.
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In July 2015, the company changed its name to V-E-R-E-I-T.
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In September 2019, certain defendants agreed to pay $1.025 billion.
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Endless Shrimp led to an $11 million operating loss in Q4 of 2023.
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There was also the fact that when parties arrived at Red Lobster looking to pig out on a barge full of Endless Shrimp,
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Burke's experience serving a man who put away 16 servings over the course of two hours was actually mild
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compared with some of the other stories I've heard.
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Josie, 19, who also asked to be anonymous, super anonymous,
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worked at a now-shuttered Kansas City Red Lobster,
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where she watched a solo diner take down 30 orders of fried shrimp within four hours.
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According to the nutritional information on Red Lobster's website,
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But if you read enough headlines and you quickly start to realize there is a shrimp-spiracy afoot.
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And that's because Red Lobster was bought in its entirety by a company named Thai Union.
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Thai Union owned Red Lobster and is actually under investigation for its role in this whole debacle.
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That's because Thai Union not only owns 100% of Red Lobster,
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but was also historically a large-scale supplier to the chain.
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Just before this promotion, they eliminated all other shrimp suppliers.
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Thai Union is one of the world's largest shrimp suppliers,
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as well as all sorts of other seafood like canned tuna.
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And I can only presume that their goal with Red Lobster was never to run a successful restaurant company,
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but instead to perform the world's first shrimp-based bust-out scheme.
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Because remember, the Red Lobster company had already been looted by private equity before Thai Union bought it.
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So unless Thai Union is dumb, when they bought it, they already knew that Red Lobster was in big trouble.
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They cut off all the other shrimp suppliers and turned themselves into the sole provider of shrimp
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and then offered this crazy deal where Red Lobster tanked on buying endless shrimp from Thai Union.
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And when you dig into Thai Union's most recent financial statements,
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they own 62 different seafood companies around the world,
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many of them specifically shrimp farms, packing, and distribution companies.
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But when you add up all the companies they own more than 25% of,
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Thai Union Group is the world's largest seafood company
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and ranked number one in the food production industry on Dow Jones Sustainability Index,
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which might be true as long as slavery isn't one of their metrics.
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Because this report was produced by Sustainability Incubator just last year
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about the rampant human rights abuses in the shrimp industry.
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often referencing their subsidiary Chicken of the Sea,
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which is one of the U.S.'s largest retail seafood suppliers.
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The report points out that at the prices paid per kilogram in these source countries,
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it's literally impossible that slave labor and exploitation aren't involved in the supply chain.
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Based on their analysis, average monthly earnings for shrimp peelers are the lowest in India.
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Yeah, I'm not sure what happens to Ecuador between where the shrimp are cheap and where the wages are recorded.
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Like, maybe they're not even paying wages in Ecuador.
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But suffice to say, it's probably not too good of an industry to be dealing with shrimp in Ecuador.
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This isn't just some harebrained theory that Sustainability Incubator cooked up.
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You might not have noticed the massive scandal that rocked the shrimp industry a decade ago,
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But before we detail the modern shrimp slave trade,
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I want to read to you a bit from the book, The Secret Life of Groceries.
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Because you see, shrimp were notoriously hard to farm or domesticate.
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When put in farming conditions, their sexual development gets stunted by stress,
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and females just don't develop ovaries for reasons we don't entirely understand.
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And the book goes into this in pretty interesting detail, and then stuff gets really wild.
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The single great breakthrough came in a fittingly bizarre and brutal manner.
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Then, as now, those trying to make aquaculture work raised their shrimp in overcrowded tubs.
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And as their shrimp swam around and around in circles in these tubs,
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their outside eye would rub against the side of the tank.
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And slowly, after God knows how many circles, in God knows what type of crowded environment,
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the outermost eyeball of the outermost shrimp in these tubs would eventually get rubbed right off,
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It turns out that, for as of yet biologically unexplained reasons,
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a female shrimp who loses a single eyeball gets fast-tracked through puberty,
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her ocular loss unleashing a cascade of hormones that begets ovaries in as little as three days.
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This was not predictable, nor does it fit with some grand anatomical theory of shrimp endocrinology,
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and began snipping eyeballs off by hand in an attempt to replicate it.
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and although nobody could quite explain eyestalk ablation,
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the quirky stride of science skipped merrily forward,
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Thailand was one of the world's leading shrimping industries because of the waters around Thailand.
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But now, there was surging demand, and so, they needed laborers to fill it.
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Fortunately for the Thai shrimping industry, Burma is right next door.
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You might know it as Myanmar or Burma, depending on what time period your history book was written.
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There are no shortage of refugees trying to escape to Thailand from Burma, Myanmar, for a better life.
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There has been civil wars and coups and bloodshed in Burma since before most of us were born.
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And, this book, The Secret Life of Groceries, tells the story of a specific person who became a fisherman,
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not by choice, who came from Myanmar to Thailand looking for a better life,
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and wound up as a slave to the shrimping industry.
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There's no simple frame of reference for rural Myanmar at this time.
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It's feudal and corrupt, trapped in time, without electricity, running water, or paved roads,
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Thun Lin doesn't grow up with a floor, but does remember his father's N-16 leaning against the wall of their hut.
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Transportation to the front is largely on ox-drawn carts.
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The country at this time is in perpetual civil war, between the government and the communists,
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between small mercenary armies funded by industrialists and rival tribes,
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between ethnicities and religions in the different sub-regions,
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all of whom ally with each other and disband and realign to create chaos.
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He leaves his home village without telling anyone,
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bringing three t-shirts, three pairs of pants, one blanket, and the shoes he is wearing.
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He doesn't have a proper bag, so he uses a plastic one.
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He crosses the border at the town of Mewati, and it's easy.
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He does it all by himself, without a broker or a snakehead,
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just a matter of hitching a ride and dashing across a river,
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a few meters down from the official checkpoint.
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When I visit Mewati 18 years later, I see several people doing the exact same thing.
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From there, he walks up the steep bank and emerges on the Thai side of the border
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The reality of being in Thailand, of the language being different,
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And as that reality hits, a broker waves to him.
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Thun Lin says it seemed like he was waiting for him.
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The broker is about 40 years old, his eyes smart and handsome,
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dressed in a blue long-sleeved shirt that is clean.
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So Thun Lin approaches, and the broker asks him,
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Thailand, not totally realizing he's already in Thailand.
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The broker says that doesn't matter and puts his arms around him.
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The two of them walk back to a two-story brick house in Maesot.
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They walk side by side like they are on a date.
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The whole time, they talk in Burmese about Thailand.
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The broker is laying out a future, telling him about the different cities in Thailand,
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the resorts in the south, the skyscrapers in Bangkok,
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And of course, he's telling him all about the jobs.
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The first thing he's told when sitting on the floor in this hut,
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One of the migrants near him explains that Thun Lin has come at a very good time.
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Some people have been waiting on the floor for over a week.
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True to his word, the next morning, the broker arrives.
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He tells them they are going to Chiang Mai, a city in the north.
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But he tells the group that the police are looking for migrants.
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They are making his job very difficult and dangerous.
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He explains that the military is pulling vehicles to the side and checking papers.
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So to get to Chiang Mai without being arrested, they will have to go it by foot.
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It is a 210-mile trek through a jungle over several mountains during the heart of the rainy season.
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Thun Lin does not know this because the broker does not say this.
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The broker does not take any questions or explain anything beyond
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how they are to leave town without attracting attention.
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It rains continuously the first day of the walk, and quickly, the group begins to break down.
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Every night, they sleep outside, huddled in groups under trees
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or in small caves and overhangs in the mountain areas.
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The only food comes at two checkpoints per day,
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where the guide has arranged for meals to be stashed.
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Thun Lin says they split cans three, four, or five people per can.
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Thun Lin estimates that a group of 100 people left the house.
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By the end of this trip, he knows for a fact that he saw six people die of hunger or disease.
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Once they get onto a truck, they sit in rows so tightly packed it is hard to breathe.
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but sitting on the floor with his knees tucked to his chest.
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Estimating from a map, driving with no traffic, their trip lasts 12 hours.
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He tells me there are no rest stops and that people cannot control themselves
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When they arrive, the back of the truck is open and they are told to get out.
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Only that he sat so close to her the entire trip and that he had not thought about her.
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Once he gets put onto a boat, which he did not ask to be on,
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he cannot eat because he is seasick and throws everything up and he is not allowed to sleep.
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It is at this point, the captain puts out the big canisters of instant coffee for the crew to eat.
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On the fourth day, doing work he does not understand among men who speak languages like Khmer and Lao,
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he can only partially communicate with, nauseated, starving, exhausted,
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Thun Lin says he becomes physically unable to continue working.
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And so he stops and goes to the crawl space to take a nap.
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It is a steel ball on an elastic cord and he swings it at Thun Lin,
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catching him across the face, then repeatedly on the shoulders.
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He says he has beaten many times over the years, but he will always remember this first one.
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Thun Lin says he is not beaten again after this.
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The captain merely has to point at this yo-yo for Thun Lin to increase the speed of his work
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until after waiting six months, he makes the mistake of asking for the salary he was promised
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because that's how they got him onto the boat, saying that he was going to have a job.
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For this, he is beaten even harder than before.
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He learns now the captain owns him, that he bought him when he acquired his debt.
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He is only a teenager and is weak, which means he is beaten more frequently.
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As the captain whips him, Thun Lin slowly loses his mind.
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After a particularly bad beating, Thun Lin gets very sick.
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Whenever he asks Thun Lin questions, the boy will only laugh or cry.
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It is now that he is beaten until he is unconscious and kicked into the sea.
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He never enjoys life on the boat, but he learns it.
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He comes to do every job, sorting the fish, carrying them to the freezer on trays,
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patching, folding, caressing the net, and looking for rips, and more.
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This is Thun Lin's second year on the boat out of what will eventually be 14 years at sea.
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At this point, he is a slave in the only meaningful sense of the word.
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He works under the threat of violence, and he has seen those who fought back against that violence killed.
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His best friend on the boat, the only person he knew before boarding,
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was slowly driven mad, and eventually, he was killed too.
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Although they don't get a lot of sleep, this is where they sleep.
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Thun Lin shares a crawl space with Thulek and the rest of the crew before Thulek dies.
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Some closer to indentured servants, some free men who signed off on their own volition,
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some who enforced the captain's orders, many in more than one role depending on the precise time you look,
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all sleeping together in a space less than a meter high.
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To get to the bed, they crawl on their hands and knees for about 12 feet into the darkness
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through an opening that can fit at most one person at a time.
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This is where Thulek sleeps, when not working his 20-hour days.
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When I visit a similar sleeping hole on the Thai docks, the opening comes up just above my knee,
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and it is warm, exhaling the dark, yeasty manure smell of the unwashed human body.
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Thun Lin and all the rest of these workers are working in the fishing industry,
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pulling up all sorts of fish, but the waters of Thailand were getting overfished,
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and as they got overfished, more and more of that Thai fishing industry
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was actually based on the trash fish, the small fish, the guts,
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the things that actually can't sell as fish, but instead become fish meal.
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and they get other boats to come and resupply them and take their catch into port for them.
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And this describes how fishers like Thun Lin never see these small, unsailable fish make it to port.
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They are passed to a sister boat at a rendezvous, at sea,
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traded along with food, cigarettes, Thai bot, and fuel.
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It saves fuel for the larger refrigerated fishing vessels,
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and it allows some boats to stay out almost indefinitely, resupplied by others.
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They turn into floating prisons for trafficked workers.
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So once all this trash fish makes it into port after being out in the sun on a boat all day,
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then it gets rolled into the docks where it gets dumped out onto the ground into the sun all day to rot.
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But within a day, a man with a rake and wearing dark rubber boots will push this pile of fish and fish pieces
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It looks like a hole in the ground with two grinders in it for teeth,
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and it takes the rotting fish and pulverizes them further.
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If you really want to know what you're feeding your pets when it says fish on the label,
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It is the smell of thousands of tiny rotting fish piled ankle-high in the 90-degree Thai sun
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on a space that has held ankle-high levels of tiny rotting fish for years.
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It is a hot smell, not just from the climate and the decomposition,
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You can see them glowing behind the man with the rake.
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The pulverized fish will pass on a conveyor belt toward those furnaces,
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getting cooked into a paste, then baked into meal.
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This will then be sold to yet another broker bought by a feed mill
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and blended with inputs from dozens of other facilities,
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all to create the protein base in pet food, food for fish farms,
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But that is just the industry responsible for making shrimp food,
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The rest of the shrimp supply chain is brutal too.
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For example, here's another story from the shrimp industry.
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Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat,
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For the next 16 hours, number 31 and his wife stood in the factory with their aching hands in ice water.
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They ripped the guts, heads, and tails, and shells off of shrimp bound for overseas markets,
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including grocery stores and all-you-can-eat buffets across in the U.S.
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After being sold to the gig peeling factory, the couple were at the mercy of their Thai bosses.
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Trapped with nearly 100 other Burmese migrants, children worked alongside them,
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including a girl so tiny she had to stand on a stool to reach the peeling table.
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Some had been there for months, even years, getting little or no pay.
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Benjamin Lohr points out that this issue is multifaceted,
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and ultimately it stems from the modern world's globalized,
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It's a trend that permeates every aspect of our modern brand of consumerism,
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Because when Thailand was exposed, new standards were imposed,
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and the Thai shrimping industry collapsed, only to move to countries like India and Vietnam.
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News misses this crucial distinction that the slavery never ended.
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where American and Western consumers could shield their eyes from it
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Thailand is now proposing repealing the legal standards
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that had previously cracked down on shrimp slavery and forced business abroad.
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The Thai government has been insistent that trade would not be affected by new guidelines,
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stressing that the EU, with whom it currently is negotiating a free trade agreement,
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These practices go wherever the shrimp industry goes.
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because right now, India is our largest supplier.
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It's no coincidence that Sustainability Incubator found wages to be the lowest on average in India,
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The market will find the cheapest supply wherever it can be produced,
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India became America's leading shrimp supplier,
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accounting for about 40% of the shrimp consumed in the U.S.,
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in part because media reports including the AP investigation
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that exposed modern-day slavery in Thailand and their seafood industry.
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AP's 2015 reporting led to the freedom of some 2,000 enslaved fishermen
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But unfortunately, that just moved it to India.
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peeling, cutting, and grating shrimp in a factory for less than $4 a day,
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wiping away tears with the corner of her red sari.
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Standing for long hours in the cold while peeling and cutting shrimp takes a toll on my body.
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and other workers said they pay recruiters about 25 cents a day out of their salaries
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Transportation and company buses is also deducted from some workers' salaries,
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along with the cost of lunch from company canteens.
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Many workers have no contracts and no recourse if they are hurt on the job.
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Another peeler said she suffers back pain all the time from the arduous work,
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Some have nail fungus caused by small cracks that allow germs to cause infections.
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Other women have fingers or even their entire hands darkening with frostbite.
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AP journalists observed dozens of women working in unsanitary and dangerous conditions.
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The shrimp pulled from outdoor ponds in barrels were swished around by hand in grimy water.
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Once rinsed, they were dumped onto ice-covered tables,
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where women stood peeling them one shrimp at a time.
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Some women's long hair dangled into the shrimp.
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And you kind of expect that kind of conditions maybe in, you know,
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third-world countries processing your food like India or Thailand.
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But the point of this is that Naconti, the company that they were apparently peeling shrimp for,
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In the bottom section here, a marketing video produced by Naconti,
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which is projecting $150 million in revenues this year,
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shows shrimp peelers in a spotless room with shiny tables and workers wearing gloves,
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head coverings, face masks, rubber boots, and waterproof aprons.
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By the way, Naconti is a subsidiary of guess who?
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said the company had nothing to do with the peeling shed that AP had visited,
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and said that their branded truck was there only because it was being leased to another company.
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He provided a document that said that Naconti was paid $3,600
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for the four-month lease of a truck with the license plate number the AP observed.
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Sure, that document is A-okay, but you have to imagine what's going on out there
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and the actual conditions in these countries are like the stories that you're hearing.
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And I just wanted to give you a little image, a little visual,
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of where all the shrimp in the world is coming from right now.
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But just to be clear, the shrimp industry works the way that the shrimp industry works.
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And if you want to sell shrimp for the prices that these countries are selling shrimp for,
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you have to compete with countries that are using slave labor.
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So, your bottomless shrimp is another man's, or child slave laborer's, bottomless despair.
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This year, in 2025, New Orleans hosted the Super Bowl,
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and someone had the bright idea of going there and doing a little testy-testy
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on the shrimp that they were selling in New Orleans and other Gulf Coast cities.
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made possible by a new testing technology that could turn results around
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in less than an hour instead of sending to labs and taking days.
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Well, the cities with the highest shrimp fraud rate were Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg, Florida,
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only two of the 44 restaurants sampled were serving authentic shrimp
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In Baton Rouge, researchers sampled menu items at 24 restaurants
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and found nearly 30%, more than one in four, were misrepresented.
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Family-owned shrimp business operating out of the port of Tampa
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while local restaurants bamboozle customers into thinking
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Family-owned and American businesses are the ones bearing the brunt of our desire
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for the most, the best, and also somehow the cheapest.
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America and the Western world has this obsession with optics and ethics.
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We want to feel good about the products we're buying.
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And many, not all, but many, of these marks that are here to tell us
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that we're making ethical choices are essentially made-up stickers and rackets.
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Inspections are often half-baked, audits ineffective,
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This is another thing that Lore covers extensively and with great nuance in his book.
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It's a pretty rough story when you really get into it,
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and these types of stories are all over the place.
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A lot of people are following along with the live court updates.
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Unfortunately, we're not going to get an Amber Heard talking about doing things on the bed or anything like that.
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But we are getting some funny court sketches and a lot of really, really awful stories from Cassie Ventura that really we're not going to talk about.
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If you really care about all the horrible things that Cassie alleges that Diddy did to her while they were dating and not dating and whatever else,
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You can look up her original lawsuit because that is not the story.
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And I don't mean to say that Cassie's accusations are not important because they very much are.
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What I mean to say is that so far, everything that's being discussed in the courtroom is super not the story that we were all here to see.
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The actual story that I want to talk about that I assume that most of you want to talk about is the kind of story where Suge Knight famously accused Diddy of being a longtime FBI informant.
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In April of this year, Whitney Webb released an excellent report about Diddy's early life outlining how he attended a boy's school that was marred in numerous sex scandals
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and how his father was very likely a rat, an informant that was eventually caught and killed.
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All of this was even before Diddy even got into the music industry, where his early mentors were linked to the mob and all sorts of other scandals.
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The real story is Lil Rod's lawsuit, which we've all seen and talked about before.
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Lucian Grange, the CEO of Universal Music Group, was originally named in that lawsuit, and so was Universal Music Group and Motown, as well as many other people.
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But the lawsuit directly alleges that Grange was at the parties, and presumably partially or entirely funding them at times.
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The lawsuit included what appeared to be screenshots from videos of famous people and told of coercion based on performing sexual acts on camera.
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It included many specific allegations about drugs, guns, prostitutes, even minors.
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But the biggest bombshell in the lawsuit, as far as I'm concerned, and the thing that no mainstream outlet wants to touch, is the allegations of hidden cameras.
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Mr. Jones, Mr. Combs possesses compromising footage of every person that has attended his freak-off parties and his house parties.
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I don't think that all of those videos are the ones being shown in court.
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Upon information and belief, due to this treasure trove of evidence he has in his possession, Mr. Combs believes that he is above the law and is untouchable.
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Upon information and belief, Mr. Combs employs Jose Cruz as his IT director.
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This writer has spoken to several former employees of Mr. Combs who confirmed that Jose Cruz is the gatekeeper to all of Mr. Combs' recordings.
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And I want to point out here, this document was prepared by a lawyer.
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And that lawyer has a legal duty to believe that all the statements in this document are true, at least to a certain degree.
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He cannot say that he spoke to all these other employees of Mr. Combs if he never did.
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And so, this lawsuit has to at least have merit in the lawyer's eyes.
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And maybe it wouldn't all prove out in court, but it's not just made up out of nowhere, right?
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And there are screenshots that seem to show screenshots of video evidence.
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Pair all that with the fact that Diddy's head of security was Fahim Muhammad.
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Quote, in 2008, Fahim graduated from Sacramento State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Real Estate and Marketing.
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Michael Jackson died just one year after Fahim apparently graduated from college.
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Fahim was Michael Jackson's head of security and apparently second on the scene when Michael died.
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Then, Fahim winds up as Diddy's head of security.
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By the way, before we get off of Fahim Muhammad, remember his specialty in real estate from college?
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And he apparently has land right on the Mexico border.
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That's what one dad gave his son for his 13th birthday.
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He posted about it on social media and their story went viral.
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Fahim Muhammad bought 198 acres out here in Boulevard to get away.
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He lives in Los Angeles and runs a real estate business that buys and rebuilds properties in the south side of Chicago.
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He says to create a better living situation for the black community there.
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Fahim says his mom taught he and his siblings how important it is to own your own property and to help their community.
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So when his son, Fahim, recently turned 13, he gave him 40 acres.
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I thought it would be a great opportunity to teach him a life lesson about the value of land.
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And they're teaching other kids from L.A. these lessons, too.
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They bring inner city kids out here to hike, ride ATVs, and build campfires.
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And even though they're right beside the border wall, they've had no problems out here.
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These city kids enjoy their own private open space.
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Remember, that's from back during Biden's term when there was all kinds of problems at the border.
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If you owned land on the border where no one was there, I have a feeling there were people jumping over a fence, dropping babies over a fence and running through your land.
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But just suffice it to say that I have questions about why exactly did you choose to buy all that land right on the border wall, Fahim, while you're simultaneously the head of security of this sort of trafficking operation that's having these freak offs where there's allegations that there were party favors and stuff like that.
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So, yeah, I can't help but feel like they're trying the wrong case in court.
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If you're in the music industry, people have been whispering about Diddy ever since Biggie and Tupac were murdered,
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making way for Diddy's rise to superstardom alongside Biggie Smalls' ex-sidekick, Jay-Z.
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And I just want to remind us all, too, of some of the more recent allegations that people have made against Diddy.
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But as far as Meek Mills, Puff Daddy, whoever, none of these d***s, all you fake hard n***s, f*** you.
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I don't get f***ed because you can't shoot nobody anyway.
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And the reason why you got to talk is because you did a deal, you f***ing fed.
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That's why you got to come at me because part of the deal for you to be a do-all that and get out of jail is that you promise that you're going to go pull my co-car.
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Um, P.S., today, while we were sourcing this clip, we accidentally noticed that the original Drink Champs video on their YouTube channel no longer has that little section about Diddy being a fed.
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It appears to have been edited to cut that clip out.
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And we went back through it and re-watched it and tried to confirm.
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Check out what is now on the Drink Champs website as of, I think, a year ago.
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But as far as Meek Mills, Puff Daddy, whoever, none of these n***s, all you fake hard n***s, f*** you.
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And as best as we could tell, that happened somewhere like a year ago is when that video was uploaded.
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And my presumption would be that that has something to do with Diddy applying pressure in approach to his court appearance.
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But anyways, none of that is being mentioned in court right now.
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It almost reminds me of a certain other sex trafficker who didn't kill himself.
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So just don't forget the real story because the real story is part of a much bigger picture.
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And I'm sure we'll be talking about that picture in stories coming up.
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I realized that a lot of you guys might have no idea who the heck I am.
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And I also realized that based upon talking about the shrimp industry, there's a whole lot of other stuff that I kind of came up on, stories that I used to cover all the time, that we should probably revisit.
00:38:25.580
Teach you a little bit about where I come from and teach you a little bit about what's in your baby food, as well as all the other products in your grocery store aisles.
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So, here's one of the first TikTok videos I ever made that summed up the whole first dig I did into grocery store aisles and into who really owns everything and what are they putting in everything.
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After we discovered that Target has entire shelves of shampoo that are all owned by the same megacorporations, I decided to go look at a bunch of other products that we put on our bodies and into our various holes.
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Because we all get the sense that this is just the illusion of choice, but it's different when you actually see it like this.
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Like the whole shelf of deodorant at Rite Aid that has like three options that are not megacorporations, but several that are specifically branded to look like they're natural and legit, like Schmitz or Toms of Maine.
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By the way, the women's deodorant was the exact same story.
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I went to the skincare aisles of several stores.
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They purposely brand it to look like it's medical and like doctor formulated.
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They advertise all over the place that it's trusted by experts, you know, formulated by doctors that work for Procter & Gamble and trusted by experts that work at Unilever.
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Even at high-end beauty stores like Ulta, I only found two types of shampoo that were female or founder or family owned.
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The rest are owned by megacorporations and billionaire private equity, who I'm sure care a lot about your hair care and your health.
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They would never include carcinogens and toxic chemicals in their products.
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Obviously, all the class action lawsuits you can find on Google are just fear.
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But in some aisles, there are founder and family owned brands made by real people that actually care about you hiding amongst all of these other megacorporations designed to blend in.
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And so what I did is I started making spreadsheets and giving them out for free on my website with all the different types of, you know, health and with all the different types of skincare, personal care products, shampoos, with lists of the different brands that we all consume on a daily basis and whatever megacorporations or businesses own those brands.
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Because I'm not trying to say that all of these brands are necessarily horrible for you.
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I'm just trying to say that when you buy these brands, your money is going to these megacorporations.
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And megacorporations pretty much all play by the same corporate playbook.
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Target's top shareholders are Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock, along with a bunch of like investment banks and private equity funds.
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In about four hours of work, their CEO makes as much as the average target worker makes in an entire year, which only totals up to like 17 and a half million dollars in 2023.
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How is he going to afford the mortgage on his extra condo in the Caribbean?
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And a lot of people misunderstand my message as being like, capitalism is evil and capitalism is the devil.
00:41:29.160
What I'm trying to say is that capitalism is what we make it with our capital.
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And when we all support giant monopoly megacorporations, we help to prop up this version of capitalism that is actually much more like corporate oligarchy.
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And we inherently have the power to change it, or at least to push on it.
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If we stop spending our money on this and start giving more of our money to companies like this, we can very much change the world.
00:42:00.500
The reason why megacorporations do this is so that they can maximize the chances of the most of our money being spent on their products.
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But we all have the power to go into this aisle and to find that one little spot where the real companies owned by real people are hiding and to spend our money on those products.
00:42:19.240
Because that money does not go to multi-million dollar CEO bonuses, it goes to employees at real companies that actually take care of their people.
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It goes to voting for products that are not filled with chemicals.
00:42:31.720
Chemicals that cause hair loss that then let those same companies turn around and sell you products to prevent hair loss.
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The aisle at Target has both those products, both owned by the same companies, both on the same shelf, right next to each other.
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I know the economy is horrible and it's probably going to get worse.
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But personal care products are a great place to start changing your spending habits.
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Because it's not like food that you have to consume every day and you have to spend tons and tons and tons of extra money to buy better brands.
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You just have to buy, you know, a better brand once a month.
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And if we all start voting in it with our dollars, we stand to change everything.
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And I guarantee you 2024 is going to be just as or more depressing.
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But my 2024 is going to be all about things that we can do to change, to make the world a better place.
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So start using yours to promote businesses that make the world better, not worse.
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And that's what I really got started on when I made my first TikTok video is how does this world work and who owns all the stuff that we use?
00:43:52.680
And over time, as I looked at more and more products and more and more industries and just started learning about where all this money goes,
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I started to notice the patterns and notice how it works and notice solutions.
00:44:04.480
One of my favorite places to start this dig that wasn't quite mentioned in that one is Hidden Valley Ranch.
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And I want to invite you to search that on the internet because all of you can do this research too.
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You can do it in the grocery store on your phone.
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But when you look up who owns Hidden Valley Ranch, you're going to screen something like this.
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And you'll find out that it's owned by Clorox, the bleach company.
00:44:36.180
You look up who owns Clorox and you'll find out that it is a public company, like the kind of company you can buy stock in, right?
00:44:43.200
And the word you need to look up in order to figure out who owns a public company is you need to look up Clorox Institutional Ownership.
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And when you do that, you get two screens like this or you can go to a website that will actually give you the full list.
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And when you go to a website like Yahoo Finance and you find the full list, you're going to notice something pretty quick.
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The top shareholders of basically every company in America are Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street.
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And then below that is always all the banks, fund managers, private equity, etc.
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And the more you do this and look around, the more you'll realize that these same financial institutions
00:45:28.620
are at the top of basically every public corporation in America, right?
00:45:34.020
Even ones that you think were natural and family or founder-owned, like Dave's Killer Bread, nope.
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Got bought out a long time ago by Flowers Foods.
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And when you look at Flowers Foods, Vanguard and BlackRock are the top shareholders.
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You keep doing this over and over for different industries.
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And pretty soon you notice that all kinds of different companies, food and beverage, banks, big tech,
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every single one of these little squares inside of these bigger squares are big companies that you will recognize the names of.
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And the red highlights are Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street.
00:46:09.140
And all the other names on those lists are their buddies.
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They've got just about every aspect of our lives locked down in a big way.
00:46:22.960
The entire market is kind of just one big conglomerated game where they all play their parts and they all have their different corporations,
00:46:35.300
but they all are owned by the same financial institutions and all of them have a fiduciary duty to make their shareholders money.
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They are required by law at all of those public corporations to maximize shareholder value.
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And everything you're looking at on those lists are their top shareholders.
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So they are legally required to do what's best for all of those financial institutions, not for you.
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Once you take this into the grocery store and actually look at the products on the shelves,
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stuff gets pretty bleak pretty quick because what I started doing is just coloring it in.
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Anything that's owned by a megacorporation, oopsies, there's not a lot of options left.
00:47:19.340
That's not a single non-corporate option of baby food in that store.
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Actually, the first one I ever did was tampons and feminine products.
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The cereal aisle, big moneymaker in grocery stores.
00:47:41.300
But I said I wanted to come back to baby food because this is not just about who owns it,
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but it's about when their fiduciary duty is to financial institutions like the banks.
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Their job is just to make the cheapest product that will profit the most, that will sell to the masses in whatever way they can.
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And when you're talking about something like baby food, there are serious ramifications for doing so.
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Now, this report is an official report published by the U.S. House of Representatives where they ordered a study into what is in our baby foods.
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And they found that baby food was wildly tainted with arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury.
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And I want you to notice the brands that are at the bottom of the screen where the logo of the House of Representatives is.
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That's Gerber, Happy Baby, Plum, all these different brands that you might think, I thought that Plum was organic.
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And when they tested what was in these baby foods, it was appalling.
00:48:44.380
The test results of baby foods and their ingredients eclipse those levels, meaning the levels that are accepted as safe,
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including results up to 91 times the arsenic level, up to 177 times the lead level, up to 69 times the cadmium level,
00:48:59.580
and up to 5 times the mercury level that is supposed to be allowable in our baby food, which should be zero.
00:49:11.180
And if you didn't know that, if you didn't know who is making your baby food and how little they care about your baby's health,
00:49:22.340
And I want to stress that you should not feel guilty about that.
00:49:34.060
And unfortunately, those solutions are not readily available or easy, right?
00:49:38.900
You could make your own baby food at home by cooking all your food, but a lot of parents have to work all day, right?
00:49:44.640
That's the whole point of having this convenient baby food.
00:49:47.200
And we didn't even mention the formula, which is super messed up.
00:49:52.080
But one solution that I kept finding over and over again in every aisle, everywhere that I went,
00:49:57.900
is that when you find brands that are owned by families, owned by their founders, owned by real people,
00:50:04.500
more often than not, those brands have more of a commitment to humans.
00:50:10.140
Because if they don't, they're going to get gobbled up.
00:50:12.720
They're going to get crushed by the big competition.
00:50:16.820
And usually, they're real people, too, that have kids, that are in this business for a reason.
00:50:21.440
And so I started to notice that the family and founder-owned brands, for many obvious reasons,
00:50:36.460
But really, the hard part is just finding them.
00:50:38.900
Because shelf space is for sale in the grocery store.
00:50:42.080
And if you want to know about that, buy this book.
00:50:48.700
So that they can monopolize the entire aisle and make it very hard to find all the little brands that compete with this giant corporate scheme.
00:50:56.440
But if you know what brands you're looking for, you can just go find them and buy those.
00:51:01.740
And suddenly, you can boycott the entire evil financial cabal all at once.
00:51:06.360
So what I started doing years ago when I first, well, two years ago, really, I'm real old.
00:51:15.620
But all of 2023 and part of 2024, I made these spreadsheets.
00:51:21.380
And even though I have closed down that old store because I sucked at running a clothing store,
00:51:26.560
I still have those spreadsheets available on that website.
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The website is cancelthisclothingcompany.com slash resources.
00:51:40.680
But I should warn you that they're going to be coming down soon.
00:51:44.520
Because, not because we hate the project or anything like that,
00:51:48.080
but because we have something way cooler in the works.
00:51:52.480
But let's just say that all along, people have been asking me
00:51:55.940
if you could use your phone in order to scan products and find out who owns them
00:52:00.780
and all this stuff that was on those sheets and more.
00:52:05.280
And at a certain point, I received an email from two people out there that were like,
00:52:11.000
yo, we took your spreadsheets and we made them into an app and we want to show you.
00:52:21.000
I can't say too much just now, but it's definitely on the way.
00:52:26.240
And we're going to put a link down below in the description of where you can go follow along
00:52:32.280
Because it's going to, and by the way, it's not going to be like some crazy profit scheme.
00:52:35.360
We're not going to like make a bunch of money off you.
00:52:36.680
We're going to make a dope product that I'm going to use every day.
00:52:39.440
Because we want you to be able to, I mean, it's not about boycotting this or that
00:52:45.780
We're not here to tell you what's ethically right or what's healthy for you.
00:52:50.620
So that if you personally don't want to buy from Nestle for reasons, you can figure out
00:52:55.520
what's owned by them because they own hundreds of brands.
00:52:58.120
If you don't want to buy from Bud Light or from any old company, it's up to you.
00:53:05.400
For me, it'll be to help find family and found your own businesses.
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We've been loving the comments that you guys have been sending in.
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It's been so humbling to receive so much support and so much good belly laughter from all the
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So to close out today, we're going to check in with some of your comments.
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I am so impressed with Candace's choice, not only because Ian is fully capable of doing a good job,
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but because he has different political ideas than Candace does.
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And these two are teaching people how to disagree respectfully and still work together.
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Yes, that is what we need more of in this world.
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Even though we disagree on things, that does not matter.
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We got Ian Carroll filling in for Candace before GTA 6.
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Ian being so respectful of Candace's show to the point he was afraid to say hell.
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I genuinely didn't know and I didn't want to make a mistake.
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And so I kind of like getting back to my roots where you, you know,
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Then I was kind of hoping for a baby Ian Carroll montage.
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But maybe we'll do something like that at the end of the time I'm here.
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As a mother of four, thank you, Ian, for exposing these types of mafias.
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Yeah, if you haven't seen the episode that we did about Urban Air yet,
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both of the last episodes this week were about this crazy breaking story at Urban Air.
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And don't worry, we will be doing a whole bunch more about that whole debacle next week.
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We're just taking our time to get the story straight,
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to compile all the documents that we have and to really put together a great story
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because we don't, we want to do the best we can for Tiffany Sianci,
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for all the other children and families that have been affected by this
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My husband strapped the harness for our nine-year-old and tested the clip system at a couple of these places.
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We've even gone to indoor rock climbing locales too, where he insisted on checking everything.
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He didn't care about offending people or pissing someone off, just measured insistence.
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Hearing this story makes me love him even more.
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More healthy masculinity where you're taking care of your family, making sure your kids are safe.
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Do not outsource your children's safety to an underpaid 16-year-old at a private equity-owned trampoline park.
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She complained she received no training and had to harness the children.
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She quit because she said management was irresponsible.
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Parents need to be aware of this place and that we are seeing at these places.
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Yes, I'm glad your daughter got out and is safe, and no horrible scandals happened right on her watch.
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Tiffany is almost single-handedly raising awareness of how private equity is destroying small family-owned businesses.
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Tiffany is an absolute rock star, a legend, and her story has been, she's been working so hard to get her story out,
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and it's just an honor to be able to help tell that story and to help spread awareness of not only what she went through,
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but what all these other families went through in secret arbitration that they were not able to speak about until now,
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and I just, I cannot but hope the best for all of these people that have been so harmed by it.
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So, on a positive note, it's been really humbling to see your response to me.
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It's really fun to read through them and giggle, share them with the crew,
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and just generally have a good time with you guys and with everyone here at The Candace Show.
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So, this is just the first week, getting my bearings, getting our stories straight.
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Next week, we got a whole bunch of bangers coming at you, too.
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Be sure to like this video, share it with all your friends, subscribe to Candace's channel.
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Stay healthy, be happy, and we'll see you next week.