Pearl - The Consequences of Avoiding Accountability

00:00:00.000 I get amazed at times how issues that are not women's issues are turned into women's issues

00:00:07.340 and how little attention men's issues get. What made me think of this was I saw a video by Alex

00:00:14.900 Clark and Alex Clark is a female conservative commentator and she was talking about how there's

00:00:21.620 issues in the food supply. I found out that women make 80% of consumer buying decisions.

00:00:27.860 What I've noticed is common for women is to operate in a state of fear.

00:00:35.320 And what happens is people come in and say that the water supply is poison, the nonstick

00:00:42.920 toxic pans.

00:00:44.380 And what I'm not saying is that there's not any truth to that, right?

00:00:48.580 But what I am saying is I do think that the market capitalizes on female neuroticism because

00:00:57.060 we're very anxious and we have a tendency to think everything is the end of the world where men have

00:01:05.440 a tendency to stay more calm. And when I saw this video of Alex Clark talking about how the water

00:01:13.220 supply is poisoned, the food supply, the toxins, GMOs, all that stuff, all I could think about was

00:01:20.440 how there is someone out there making so much money off of female neuroticism our next presenter

00:01:27.120 is alex clark miss clark is a food activist advocate for healthier food systems and the host

00:01:31.680 of culture apothecary podcast she is committed to educating consumers on the importance of organic

00:01:36.600 farming and the dangers of harmful additives and food products clark's mission is to inspire

00:01:41.740 positive change in both personal health choices and industry standards driving the movement toward

00:01:46.700 cleaner more responsible food production my average listener like me is a woman in her late 20s

00:01:51.820 and early 30s and we demand accountability for how the millennial generation was turned into

00:01:58.220 a science experiment without our informed consent for the sake of enriching big pharma big ag and

00:02:04.220 big food millennial women have started to have kids for the first time and they are disillusioned

00:02:09.340 with how hard it has become to not only get pregnant but also raise kids who are healthy

00:02:15.020 happy and mentally okay so when you guys hear people talking about problems the first thing

00:02:21.020 you have to understand about media is problems are always going to get more clicks than solutions

00:02:27.660 and the second question we have to ask is is this true are women having a lot of children are women

00:02:34.700 having children at all that's my first question what would not what we want to be true right what

00:02:41.260 would the data indicate is true when we look at the birth rate is it increasing or decreasing okay

00:02:49.180 decreasing when we look at the number of children per family is it going up or is it going down

00:02:54.460 when we get the option to postpone motherhood or have it sooner what do we pick i'd like to

00:03:01.260 say this is not a moral statement this is not me saying worse or better but describing as someone

00:03:08.540 that runs a show my priority is to be as accurate as possible solution with how hard it has become

00:03:15.500 to not only get pregnant but also raise kids who are healthy happy and mentally well okay so why

00:03:23.660 is it hard to raise kids that are healthy happy and mentally well why is it hard to get pregnant

00:03:31.580 Many people use things as a buffer.

00:03:34.660 In this case, my generation of women, millennial women, waited to have children.

00:03:41.240 We got on birth control young.

00:03:43.520 These were our choices.

00:03:45.460 Not good, not bad, just these were choices.

00:03:48.480 And now when you have a whole industry saying you guys can just blame the food industry

00:03:53.960 and blame all of these companies for your problems, we're jumping on that.

00:04:00.800 We're biting.

00:04:01.580 The internet's been around since I was 14. I understand it's very confusing, right? I understand

00:04:07.320 it's super confusing to figure out what's healthy, what's not healthy, but I'll use myself as an

00:04:11.720 example. I've spent a lot of time getting in shape the last six months and eating better. I have

00:04:17.460 known for years that I eat too much sugar. I knew this. There wasn't some company that tricked me

00:04:25.020 into this, but it was because I wanted this food and that's what I would buy. Many times the

00:04:31.300 companies are just catering they're trying to make money and we pick the unhealthy stuff and then

00:04:37.700 later we cry and pretend oh i didn't know the internet has been around for a decade i understand

00:04:45.300 it's confusing but life is about choices and trade-offs and if we made the choice to not

00:04:51.700 look into what we are eating whose fault is that is it the companies or is it us i am proud to

00:04:59.300 represent them the poisoning of our food and the environment is the issue for these independent

00:05:04.260 women it is devastating us and our children my name is alex clark and i host culture apothecary

00:05:11.300 by virtually every measure millennials are more health conscious than any generation before us

00:05:16.980 okay again i wanna i wanna just ask the question is that true are we more health conscious when

00:05:24.340 the average woman and man right when both genders are are overweight the majority are overweight

00:05:33.580 and the next question is is being overweight something in our control do these food companies

00:05:40.840 do they magically make us eat too much is this in our control but at the same time we are also

00:05:48.700 the sickest. That is until our children end up surpassing us. The next generation of children

00:05:55.980 is predicted to not outlive their parents if we continue on the trajectory that we are currently

00:06:01.680 on. When in human history has that ever been the case? We are fatter than any prior generation at

00:06:08.060 this age. We're having more fertility issues. New cancer diagnoses in the U.S. are projected to top

00:06:13.460 two million for the first time. So what's the easier choice to blame? Is the easier choice to

00:06:18.500 say hey companies it's your fault or is the easier choice to say hey maybe i eat too much and i need

00:06:24.480 to fix that this year and these new cases are almost all driven by young people this is according

00:06:31.320 to american cancer society data what happened growing up millennials were handed we ate too

00:06:37.240 much we ate too much sugar yeah health advice that was inaccurate mistaken or downright fabricated

00:06:44.640 almost everything that we were taught about food and health was made up the only guidance that we

00:06:50.100 received on what to eat came in 1992 via the food pyramid a completely manipulated work of fake

00:06:58.080 public health okay let's take this food pyramid excuse i was also taught the food pyramid the

00:07:04.560 first time i remember hearing about that it was fake was a decade ago in my case it still took me

00:07:11.260 a long time to change my eating habits. That was a choice. So when has the internet been accessible

00:07:19.180 to everybody? A decade. And I try to say this to women. Everybody makes money off of us. And so

00:07:27.580 it's much easier for them to sell us something as a solution or blame a company, a corporation

00:07:37.340 for our decisions and sell us the answer to our problems crafted by the department of agriculture

00:07:44.640 they said pearl it's both issues look i'm not saying that it's not that there's not birth

00:07:50.880 control in the water that there's not unhealthy food what i am saying is the internet is here

00:07:58.720 there are healthy people every day that figure out the answers and as an adult it's on you to

00:08:06.120 figure it out there are people in third world countries that do not have access to clean water

00:08:11.840 that are living in dire poverty and yet we complain more when we have access to more technology

00:08:19.760 and more healthy food sure the food pyramid told us that all fat was bad a lie it told us to make

00:08:28.080 complex carbs like pasta bread and processed breakfast cereal the bedrock of our diet not

00:08:33.060 because it was healthy but because it was the most profitable recommendation for big ag and big food

00:08:38.260 we became the first generation subjected to sugary fattening inflammatory foods deliberately

00:08:43.620 engineered to be as addictive as heroin thanks to the food companies buying these scientists

00:08:49.540 from the cigarette companies for that exact purpose so i have a different theory on this stuff

00:08:55.220 i think that businessmen are not nearly as nefarious as you guys think i think they said

00:09:03.540 look these people love sugar they want to make money and they said look they're eating it anyway

00:09:08.820 let's just be the source sure i'm sure they made some misleading marketing materials but i don't

00:09:15.460 really buy that it was some grand plan in the 80s and 90s the same era as the food pyramid scam

00:09:25.140 youth obesity tripled from five percent to fifteen percent today in 2024 close to half

00:09:32.500 of all american kids are overweight or obese now why are you surprised ultra processed foods make

00:09:40.500 up 70 percent of them okay now let's let's think about this why are the children overweight is it

00:09:46.660 because the families are letting the school raise them and maybe the parents are not involved in

00:09:53.540 what the child is eating or are we gonna blame the companies remember we're adults so you can

00:09:59.700 buy some grilled chicken lettuce vegetables i mean guys ever since i graduated high school

00:10:07.220 i knew grilled chicken was pretty healthy yet i preferred some chicken tenders you

00:10:12.260 know what i mean like when you're young you know how many if young people were really

00:10:18.020 worried about health would they consume alcohol at the levels that they do no calories that kids

00:10:24.740 eat now now most of us millennial girls got our first period when we were 13 to 15 years old

00:10:30.340 pediatricians wasted no time telling us that there was a magic pill that could solve all of our

00:10:35.540 problems in a 10-minute wellness checkup with no informed consent about the risks or side effects

00:10:42.180 okay let's talk about birth control i know many women that had fertility issues after being on

00:10:50.740 birth control for a decade but i also remember when the birth control was being passed out

00:10:56.440 and the women the young women were getting on it they were not concerned about health and i remember

00:11:03.580 at that time period i said hey guys i don't think this is good for us they did not care and now i

00:11:11.380 don't know why we're surprised turning off your fertility for a decade has issues we can blame

00:11:17.760 the companies or we can take some accountability for our choices and deal with the consequences

00:11:23.880 what problems were we solving exactly a couple pimples we were advised to not worry about

00:11:30.960 learning to track our cycle or understand our hormones no conversation about how our likelihood

00:11:36.660 to experience anxiety or depression would increase by 80 percent on the pill. And I promise you they

00:11:43.200 would not care. I promise. I promise. The 16-year-olds, 18-year-old women that are getting

00:11:49.380 on these pills are not concerned about health. They are not. Otherwise, they would not be engaging

00:11:56.420 in such risky behaviors. And the data proves this, right? If they were concerned about health,

00:12:03.360 there wouldn't be binge drinking at college if they were concerned about health we wouldn't see

00:12:09.240 the obesity rate if they were concerned about health we wouldn't see the std rate we do we

00:12:16.040 wouldn't see the abortion rate what data do you have that indicates people are concerned about

00:12:22.860 health 10 to 15 years went by on the hormonal birth control pill we stayed on the pill because

00:12:28.520 no one advised us it was only ever supposed to be taken temporarily then we wanted to have children

00:12:35.360 we got off birth control for the first time in our adult lives only to discover that we had

00:12:40.500 major fertility issues that the hormonal birth control hid infertility is going up one percent

00:12:47.080 every year okay why remember 90 percent of our eggs are gone by 30. 90 percent what what makes

00:12:57.240 more sense that it's the companies the food supply the birth control I'm not saying birth

00:13:04.080 control does not contribute but if I had to guess based on what I would say is common sense

00:13:11.200 I would say delaying motherhood is more what causes this stuff but what we'll do often is we

00:13:19.000 will go blame the companies when again everything's available online we can solve these problems or

00:13:26.280 at least improve them suddenly starting a family means spending tens of thousands of dollars on ivf

00:13:32.440 and other fertility treatments because even more medical interventions are always the first

00:13:37.480 solution rather than addressing the root causes of the problem obesity again if we're concerned

00:13:43.160 about health our actions would show that we are concerned about health but we're not it says you

00:13:49.720 can get pregnant after 30 that's true but the it's more likely that the kid will have issues

00:13:56.840 and it's less likely that you will get pregnant that's not it's a much easier to blame the

00:14:02.280 companies to blame the elites to blame this big plan and i'm not even saying that it's untrue

00:14:10.520 but what i am saying is we have all the tools to prevent these things and we are not using it if

00:14:16.680 the ivf even works millennial moms are seeing the same drama play out for their own children but on

00:14:22.840 a far greater scale they want to raise healthy kids they do but where can they go for info the

00:14:30.360 studies are bought and paid for by the food companies okay do millennial women want healthy

00:14:36.120 children if millennial women wanted healthy children then we would have children when they

00:14:43.800 are the healthiest the reason i'm bringing this up is because what i don't like is playing pretend

00:14:50.200 let's not pretend this is all the company's fault and we have no part to play they look for

00:14:59.640 unbiased info on the news but that's funded by big pharma in 2022 the pharmaceutical industry

00:15:06.360 spent an average of 1 billion dollars per month on advertising in the united states

00:15:11.400 What news company is going to risk reporting the truth

00:15:14.620 if it means missing out on advertising dollars like that?

00:15:17.420 Their pediatrician, these moms pediatrician

00:15:20.700 had less than a day of nutrition training

00:15:22.600 in all their years of medical school.

00:15:24.460 They don't even know what seed oils are

00:15:26.720 when they ask about them.

00:15:28.020 If one of my listeners has a child today,

00:15:30.900 there is a one in 50 chance

00:15:32.340 that child will have a deadly peanut allergy,

00:15:34.420 four times what it was just a few decades ago.

00:15:37.840 And that rate is rising.

00:15:39.380 Children today are about 20% more likely

00:15:41.640 to develop type one diabetes than they were 20 years ago.

00:15:44.740 Childhood cancer rates are rising

00:15:46.380 a percentage point every year.

00:15:48.520 Asthma is up, so is ADHD, allergies,

00:15:51.020 virtually every type of psychological disorder.

00:15:54.220 In 1980, autism was diagnosed

00:15:56.380 at a rate of just three or four per 100,000 kids.

00:16:01.040 Today, a newborn child has a one in 36 chance

00:16:04.180 that he or she will be autistic.

00:16:05.960 Okay, so a lot of these side effects

00:16:09.380 are caused from delaying motherhood what's the easier scapegoat their fault our fault

00:16:18.180 their fault our fault and what frustrates me is it just seems like there's always

00:16:24.660 a scapegoat we never had any part of this it was just the companies i mean how many times

00:16:32.740 are we gonna get tricked before we say hey you know what that was my choice these are

00:16:38.420 are the consequences and that's all right or that was my choice these are the consequences I didn't

00:16:43.840 research enough I wasn't concerned about it at the time I didn't care those would be more honest

00:16:50.580 answers because I don't meet and I learned this from interviewing a thousand women the women at

00:16:56.180 22 they're not concerned about health at 21 19 18 they're taking shots they're chugging beer at

00:17:04.720 their college parties. I mean, they're not concerned about endocrine disruptors. That's

00:17:10.680 an old woman problem, you know, but I am not saying that what she's saying is untrue.

00:17:16.760 But what I'm saying is I have seen people take health very seriously from a young age. There

00:17:21.920 was a girl in my high school. Her name was Caitlin. This woman, she was on my team and

00:17:27.420 she ended up quitting sports and she just got super into nutrition. I mean, she would

00:17:33.920 be measuring stuff at lunch and she she had like a like really good shape she'd go to this gym near

00:17:40.240 us and that that was her choice but she was one of like the only woman in our grade that was doing

00:17:44.720 that so and that rate is also really pcos and undiagnosed chlamydia is more than 50 percent

00:17:52.400 of infertility in women at 30 trying to have kids i don't know if that's true but that's crazy if it

00:17:58.240 is arising every year who cares about politics if the next generation is dead or close to it

00:18:05.840 before they can even vote oh gosh we are the most privileged hold on guys i just want to show you

00:18:11.600 guys all right so we're saying that we're almost dead before we can even vote i just want to show

00:18:17.520 you what like other countries look like hey you gangsta local gangster i mean i don't know america

00:18:26.400 seems a lot cleaner than this i don't know okay men at 18 they got a pill that turned off they

00:18:33.280 they could not have children anymore are they it turned off their fertility much like our pill

00:18:39.120 and men took it and said okay i know this is a risk but i do not want to have children right

00:18:44.320 now which many women do do you think at 30 they would have a hearing blaming the doctors

00:18:52.480 or do you think they would say well i got the short end of the stick and the reason i'm pointing

00:18:58.800 this out is because we as women we waste so much money on this stuff on we spend so much money

00:19:07.760 because we get we're very we can be very neurotic we can think that it's the end of the world and

00:19:14.720 that we're gonna die all the time i mean how many of you guys had a mother that always thought she

00:19:19.760 was dying or she had some kind of cancer or whatever when usually and men are a lot more

00:19:26.560 tend to be a lot more observant it's generally just a couple of habits we have that are bad

00:19:32.720 it's generally too much sugar and eating too much sugar as someone that struggles with that

00:19:39.040 this is not new information this is not something that's been hidden i've known for a decade that

00:19:45.760 this is a problem this is most overweight people's problems it's sugary drinks sugary and alcohol

00:19:52.800 sugar in bread sugar in food cupcakes donuts none of this is shocking and we should not be shocked

00:20:00.320 and life is a lot better when you realize we have all the answers to our own problems

00:20:06.160 i mean what the practices are of some big companies that sell stuff we can't control

00:20:12.320 that. It's not going to change. And frankly, I don't even think the population wants it to

00:20:17.740 change. Most people want sugary foods. Most people are overweight. So I don't see that issue changing.

Pearl - September 26, 2024

The Consequences of Avoiding Accountability ｜ Pearl Daily

Episode Stats

Length

Words per Minute

Word Count

Sentence Count

Misogynist Sentences

Hate Speech Sentences

Summary

Transcript