Why food protests outside corporations like Kellogg's are a waste of time and what we can do to be more effective and take back our family's health without relying on Big Food to feed us.
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Sharise Parviz (00:00):
Why protesting Kellogg's is a waste of time.
Yeah, that's something I'vebeen considering as I've been
watching the news and so forth.
As you might know, there was aprotest in front of Kellogg's I
believe it was theirheadquarters or corporate
offices and there was a hugeshowing, a lot of support in
this protest.
A lot of parents, a lot offamilies were showing up in
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front of Kellogg's demandinghealthier cereal.
Because what's going on is thatin Europe, kellogg's is
producing cereal andspecifically they were bringing
up Froot Loops because of allthe colors and all of that.
In Europe they produce FrootLoops let's just narrow it down
and keep it at Froot Loops withnatural dyes that come from
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fruits and from vegetables andfood-based dyes, whereas in the
US they produce Froot Loops withtoxic chemical dyes, dyes that
are created in the lab.
And so some very angry parentsand very angry people as rightly
they should be angry why isKellogg's basically poisoning
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their cereal sold in the US?
So these protesters went thereand were demanding better,
healthier cereal and while Ideeply appreciate the passion
and the intention behind theprotest, it wasn't really very
effective in changing Kellogg'smind.
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In fact, kellogg, in response,holds up a sign outside the
window, not in our lawn.
Now, that was an employee, I'msure you know.
And maybe Kellogg's will comeback and say, oh no, we didn't
mean that.
You know, they may try to coverit up, but here's the truth.
But here's the truth.
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Kellogg's doesn't care.
These big food companies well,let's just say, every company,
every company, has one goal inmind to make money.
You don't go into business tolose money.
You go.
You know, if you don't worryabout making money, you go into
charity work.
But every business has aninterest in making money.
That's true and there's nothingwrong with that.
The problem is when you have abusiness that wants to make a
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profit but has no integrity inthe way that they do it.
Now, these big food companies,their biggest goal is to make
money and turn a profit, and theway they do it is they choose
the cheapest ingredients theycan find and sell it at the
highest price that they can.
Now, in Europe, the governmenthas said, hey, we're not going
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to allow these chemicals in ourfood.
So if Kellogg's wants to selltheir product in Europe, well,
they have to abide by theregulations that the government
set forth in what is allowablein our food, in their food?
Well, in our country,unfortunately, our government is
not looking out for us, so theFDA is very loosey-goosey with
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what is put into our food, andso if these corporations can get
away with it, they're going tomake it as cheaply as possible.
Now we could say that Kellogg'sdidn't know.
Well, okay, let's give them thebenefit of the doubt for just a
second.
Let's say they didn't know thatthe chemicals were toxic and so
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, oh my goodness, we broughtawareness to them that they know
now.
And so now they're going tochange the way they make their
product.
Well, that's crap.
Of course they know.
They know that the food ispoisonous.
They know that the food istoxic.
The fact that they will sell itin one way in Europe and then
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not sell it the same way in theUS means they're just doing it
for profit.
They don't care about yourhealth.
Our health is not in their bestinterest.
They don't care one way oranother.
If they make a buck, they makea buck, and that's really all
they care about.
So because of that, how muchdifference does it make to
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protest, to stand out there,wave our fist in the air, hold
up signs and demand something?
It doesn't make much of aneffect because they're already
aware of the problem.
They just don't care.
But what they do care about istheir bottom line.
So let's take Bud Light, forinstance.
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The boycott on Bud Light.
Now, you didn't see a bunch ofburly men on their Harleys
standing outside of, you know,anheuser-busch protesting with
signs.
They just made the simpledecision to say, hey, you know
what?
We're not going to buy yourproduct.
And they didn't.
They shared it on the internet.
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It went viral and people justrefused to buy the product.
Now, for whatever the reason,right, whether you agree with
the reason that they boycottedor not, it doesn't matter the
boycott was successful, sosuccessful that Anheuser-Busch
started losing money and thatwoke them up.
But at this point and that wokethem up, but at this point it
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was so successful this boycottBud Light may never, ever
recover.
You know, there was a time inthe early 2000s when we didn't
have social media.
Let me tell you a story so youmay be aware of this.
You might not be.
There was, I believe it was, adoctor I can't remember if he
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was a doctor or a scientist, buthe was taking Nabisco to court
and over Oreo cookies.
I believe that's Nabisco, soOreo cookies.
At that time, hydrogenated fatwas in most processed foods and
it became aware that hydrogenatefat was obviously toxic.
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We know that now, but it wasobviously toxic.
And so in order to really buildawareness for the hydrogenate
fats and how unhealthy they areand how prevalent they were in
our foods this is in the early2000s this doctor threatened to
sue Nabisco.
Well, the court case never wentthrough.
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But the important thing was notabout going to court and suing
Nabisco, it was about bringingto light hydrogenated fat and
the dangers of hydrogenated fat,which it did.
Now, at that time again, therewas no social media, things
didn't.
There was no viral videos, noneof that.
You know.
You had to make a big splash inthe media, in the news, on the
radio, and that's what happenedand that's what brought on a lot
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of the public awareness.
That was great, right.
So that was a wonderful exampleof you know, doing something to
bring the public aware.
Here's the problem.
We still have hydrogenated fatsin our processed foods.
Oh, they're not necessarilylabeled as hydrogenated fats,
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because if it's under a certainamount that has been deemed safe
, generally regarded as safe orgrass by our government, then
they don't have to list it.
So it's still lurking in ourproducts, it's just not listed.
Now that's the same way withMSG.
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Msg was considered, wasdetermined to be a neurotoxin
causing neurological disorders,very toxic to the brain and body
.
So there was a big pressure forcompanies to remove their MSG.
And MSG is a flavoring enhancerto make the food taste good,
right, so there was a bigpressure to remove MSG from food
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that we were consuming.
Well, so the companies complied, so we think.
But no, they didn't.
Msg actually just became wasjust hidden under the term
natural flavorings.
You see, companies food labels.
They don't necessarily have tolabel every ingredient that's in
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your food If that ingredient isa smaller part of a larger
ingredient.
So again, natural flavorings.
Right, you see the term naturalflavorings.
You think it's natural?
Well, you know, no, it's not.
But you look at it and go, oh,but we don't know what is the
natural flavorings?
What are they?
We don't know.
Well, one of those quoteunquote natural flavorings is
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MSG.
So we still have MSG in ourfoods, we still have
hydrogenated fat in our foods.
It's just not labeled.
You just don't know.
So because of that, because thecompanies can, even if they nod
their head in agreement, oh yes,oh yes, now we are aware of how
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toxic our foods are and ofcourse we don't want to poison
anyone.
Well, of course your health isimportant to us.
Right, let's say they did that,okay.
But the truth is they mayremove it off the label and you
think that it's off the label,it's no longer in the food, but
all they've done is eitherchange the name or they've
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included it in part of anotheringredient, so we don't notice
it.
So again, another reason thatprotesting Kellogg's or any big
food company is a waste of time.
Do I think protesting is a wasteof time altogether?
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No, absolutely not.
I do not.
When it comes to our absolutesurvival, say, our water, the
air that we breathe, thosethings are absolutely necessary
and we need to raise as muchhell as we possibly can.
But cereal, the truth is, nomatter how many red dyes they
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remove from Froot Loops, frootLoops is never going to become a
health food.
It's just not.
It's filled with sugar, it's.
The grains have been haveglyphosate.
You know it's.
There's nothing healthy aboutFroot Loops.
You know the box nothing.
The plastics, nothing.
There's nothing healthy.
There's no one case that FrootLoops will ever be a nourishing
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meal for your family.
So why, again, is it a waste oftime to protest Kellogg's?
Because you're protesting afood that's never going to be
good for us anyway.
And the thing about that isthat when we are saying make
better food, make better food,all we're really doing is
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continuing to demand to suck onthe teat of big food to feed us,
suck on the teat of big food tofeed us.
We are continuing to demandthat these big companies control
us, because that's what we'redoing.
We're giving up our power whenwe bow down and we say, hey, do
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this, do this, do we really needcereal?
Cereal is not a survival food.
Cereal Cereal is not a survivalfood.
But we are turning ournutrition and we're turning over
our food system to these foodcompanies and we may be
demanding them to change it, butwe're still enslaved to the
food company and it'll never behealthy food.
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So what a waste of time.
That is, to me, a better use oftime is to boycott.
If you really really, based onwhat happened with Bud Light,
don't buy the food.
Don't buy the food.
Share it on social media what'sgoing on?
And don't buy the food.
Make their stocks come down,make their profits come down.
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That's going to get them to dosomething.
I don't know if it'll beactually anything legitimate or
they could just be again, hidethe ingredients stealthily, put
it in there without you knowing,but it might do something.
But what really is a better useof time is to learn how to feed
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yourself Instead of relying onbig food to produce our foods
for us.
We get back to the farmer, weget back to creating and making
foods ourselves.
I know that breakfast can be acrazy time, right, but the thing
about breakfast is it doesn'thave to be if you prepare.
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For instance, one of the thingsthat I do is I will make a
whole batch of hard-boiled eggson the weekend for the week One,
two dozen, and I have them forthe week.
I will cook up a batch of baconand I love cold bacon as a
snack or even for breakfast, andI will keep that in the
refrigerator.
I also make a properly preparedporridge, which is where the
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grains are prepared to bedigested, which your commercial
cereals are never going to bethat way and then I make enough
for the week and then everymorning you can take some out,
you throw it in the stovetop, onthe, in a saucepan, and you
warm it up in a little pot andyou have a fast, nutritious
breakfast.
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Serve it with some butter,serve it with some raw milk and
you have a beautiful.
It's fast and it's notexpensive.
My goodness, cereal is soexpensive.
I haven't bought cereal in along time, but I remember how
expensive it was decades ago.
I can't imagine what the priceof it is right now.
I think a better effort might beA boycott.
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Yes, stop spending your moneywhere they go, stop spending
your money in these companies.
But B start taking bettercontrol over our own health and
our own choices.
Start, you know, supporting ourfarmers who are creating these
beautiful eggs.
And beware that, even if you'rebuying organic, even if you
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think you're doing all the rightthings, a lot of these smaller
companies are actually boughtand owned by these larger food
corporations, owned by theselarger food corporations, which
is, you know, disheartening.
But even companies like, Iremember, one of my favorite
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vitamin companies back in theday was Garden of Life and
Nestle bought them out.
And then you havepharmaceutical companies who own
vitamin companies.
You know, it's even your, youknow, your seventh generation.
All these different companiesthat we used to be able to trust
has now been sold and purchasedby these larger corporations
and so even those smaller.
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You know natural looking labelsthat are in our Whole Foods,
labels that are in our WholeFoods.
You know you can't trustanymore Even Whole Foods.
I mean, I loved Whole Foods,going to Whole Foods when I was
young, my kids were young, weused to love it and then they
got bought out by Amazon andthey are not the same.
I haven't been there for a longtime, but it was brought to my
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attention that if you buy theirpackage baked goods, if you turn
over the package it'll saygenetically modified foods in it
or genetically modifiedproducts.
Whatever the label is, this isat Whole Foods.
What happens with these naturalproducts, unfortunately, is
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that even they, they aretrusting that.
You have faith in them.
So you go into Whole Foods andyou may be buying the same.
You know items that you've beenbuying for years and you don't
look at the packages.
You know you trust Whole Foods.
It's called Whole Foods for areason it costs a lot of money
for a reason right, wholepaycheck.
So you're trusting that they'redoing the right thing, and as
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we should be able to trust thatthey're doing the right thing
right and so they rely on thattrust and then they change the
labels on you and we're nolonger looking at the labels
because we trust them.
Until we do look at the labelsand we go oh my gosh, what are
they doing?
So again protesting?
Is it absolutely a waste oftime?
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No, but who should we beprotesting?
You know it's not Kellogg'sfault.
Hear me out.
Kellogg's is doing what acompany does.
It's make it buck.
That's what Kellogg's wants todo.
That's what every company wantsto do.
Now you hope that they would doit with integrity and honesty,
but most of these big foodcompanies don't care, as I
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already said.
So where do our protests belong?
Well, because Europe doesn'tallow those kinds of foods,
those dyes, those chemicals intotheir country.
It's because the government hasbanned them.
Our government, our FDA, playsloosey-goosey again with the
generally recognized, orsometimes it's called regarded
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as safe.
This is a term that somechemicals that are used in our
food products and our beautycare products.
We think everything's beentested, it's all been FDA
approved and been tested.
Oh, that's nonsense.
It really hasn't.
We think it, and it's not true,unfortunately.
Generally regarded as safe is aterm that is used for a food
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that really has never beenproven to be safe.
In fact, a company does its owntesting.
It's not third company testedor third body tested.
A company tests their ownproduct and then turns the
studies into the FDA and the FDAgoes oh okay, it looks pretty
good to me.
Well, I'll tell you what to do.
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If anything changes, submit anew study, let us know, and
that's it.
There's no proof that it'shealthy, there's no proof that
it's safe, and this is whatcompanies get away with Because
our government well, let's behonest, they're all in cahoots
together Big Pharma, big Food,fda, cdc name a government
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agency that isn't in cahoots NIHall of these companies or,
excuse me, agencies, are incahoots with these big
corporations.
They're all drinking from thesame trough.
I mean, they're all gettingtheir kickbacks.
They're all serving one another.
So if we want to protest, weneed to start with our
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politicians.
We need to start with our localpoliticians and our state
politicians and our federalpoliticians, who are supposed to
be serving the people, and wenail them to the cross, in the
sense of we email and we sendviral what these politicians are
doing or not doing to protectus and we continue and continue
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to push that out and we get outand we vote.
I'm very excited about RFK Jrgetting into the picture with
Trump, very excited.
I hope we can make Americahealthy again.
If anyone can do it, I believehe can.
He has the clout and hecertainly has the knowledge and
experience and the backing.
So I'm very excited about that.
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So what I'm saying is put yourprotest, put the energy of
protesting, where it counts.
If the government wouldn'tallow and I'm not about big
government, right, but I amabout honest government and if
the government is gettingkickbacks and again in cahoots
with these corporations, right.
These agencies making money offallowing these corporations to
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poison us, they need to beregulated.
These agencies right, which iswhy RFK is going to be a great
addition to the team.
But our protests need to go tothe people who are supposed to
be representing us.
Kellogg's it's a food, it's acereal.
Don't buy it.
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But if our government wouldrefuse for us to be poisoned,
refuse for us to have toxins inour foods, just like they do in
Europe, then Kellogg's wouldremove them.
But just us saying, hey, removethem, remove them, we want your
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food.
No, they know that you're notgoing to stop buying their food.
I mean that's what they believe.
Just because you protest, stopbuying their food.
No, they know that you're notgoing to stop buying their food.
I mean that's what they believe.
Just because you protest, stopbuying their food, start relying
on your own self to create andmake a healthy breakfast for
your family.
And if you want something done,you got to get out and vote.
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And you got to get out and yougot to to nail your politicians.
Nail them to the wall, callthem on the carpet, spread that
out like wildfire, because thensomething will be done Again,
rfk Jr coming in, hopefullymaking some changes with these
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agencies, hopefully bringingsome awareness of everything
that's going on.
I mean, I don't know how reallywe can still trust our
government after the past fouryears and still what they're
continuing to do, but manypeople still do and still aren't
aware of the dangers of ourfood system and our drug system
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and all of these systems thathave really just taken advantage
of our ignorance and ourcompliance.
So protesting itself isn'tnecessarily a waste of time, but
protest where it counts,because as long as the
government lets thesecorporations get away with it,
these corporations are going tocontinue to play sneaky.
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They're going to continue to dowhat they can do to make food
cheaply and make as much moneyoff you, off me, off us as
possible.
So protest where it matters, atour government, at our
officials, and take your moneyand put it where it matters.
You're small farmers, you'retruly companies with true
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integrity.
So three things I want to sharewith you, and it'll be in the
show notes.
One is my properly preparedporridge that I talked about,
that I make once a week and thisis great when you have kids.
Right, when my grandbaby came,I made this and I kept it in the
refrigerator and we had it.
I also make pancakes.
That's another thing I did is Iwould prepare and make a batch
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of pancakes.
You know, healthy pancakes madewith wonderful organic flours
that were that the flour wassoaked and it was fermented, so
it was wonderfully digestibleand nutritious, and I would make
them a big batch and then I'dfreeze them, and so what I would
do is make each pancake andthen I would layer a parchment
paper and then stack anotherpancake, and I would do that,
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and then I'd wrap the wholething in these stacks of
pancakes in parchment paper andthen stick them in a plastic bag
and then put it in the freezerand then, when we wanted
pancakes, I would pull outhowever many pancakes we wanted,
and I didn't use the microwave,but I did have a convection
oven and I would put it in thereand it would warm up within
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minutes.
You know, is it a little moretime consuming than just
throwing open a box of cerealand some milk?
Yeah, I mean by minutes, though.
By minutes.
But the health you know, thehealth benefit you receive by
feeding your family real food,which Fruit Loops, is never
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going to become, no matter whatwe do.
It's so worth it, it's so worthit.
Just a little preparation onthe weekends, prepare for the
week's so worth it, it's soworth it.
Just a little preparation onthe weekends, prepare for the
week, so worth it.
So I want to share three thingswith you and it'll be in the
show notes.
One is my recipe for theproperly prepared porridge Make
on a Sunday and have it for therest of the week.
The other is two resources tohelp you find companies with
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integrity.
One is from the Western Price,western A Price Foundation.
It's westernapricefoundationorg.
They have an app that you canactually put on your phone and
take shopping.
I think it's called Real Foodsapp.
They also put out a journalyearly of the companies that
they trust, and so I'll put alink to that so you can become a
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member of Weston A PriceFoundation Excellent, I think
it's $40 for the year and youget journals I think it's
quarterly journals and thenaccess to all their papers and
research and blog posts, as wellas these food journals as well
that come out yearly.
And then I'm also going to giveyou another resource.
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It's called the EnvironmentalWorking Group and this is online
.
They also have an app where youcan check for products that you
have and these are basicallylike household beauty products
that you use, cleaning products,that type of thing and they
give it a rating based on howgreen it is, meaning how healthy
it is, and how toxic it is, andso you can look at both of
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those places to one to find realfood.
They even have Western A PriceI'm talking about right now has
even what's called a 12 spoons,where they list restaurants that
follow the Western A Pricefoundations uh, foundations, um,
food right, uh, food theorybeliefs.
You know the, the foundation offood, their ancestral ways of
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eating, um, the organic, healthyway of eating.
So they have 12, uh spoons,which tells you the different
restaurants and you can find one, possibly, hopefully, in your
area that uh abide by Western,by Western Price's food
philosophies.
Then, and then theenvironmental working group.
So I will put both of thoselinks so you can look at them
and find their apps and get inwith them and check the products
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you're using and see if they'rereally as non-toxic as the
label claims them to be, see ifthe company is one that has
integrity and your health inmind, and then I'll send you my
recipe.
All right, so again, protest,put your protesting energy where
it counts the most.
Hit our government, hit thosepoliticians that are supposed to
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be representing us, not theirback pocket, and put your money
right where your mouth is, ordon't put your money and don't,
and boycott and don't buy theseproducts.
Those two ways are going to, Ithink, in my opinion, from what
I've seen, are going to be thebest ways to stick it to big
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food and big government.
We can do it, we can take backour health, but let's do it
efficiently, let's do it in away that really really makes a
difference in the long run,because there's too many
loopholes for these corporationsthat they have to still
continue to poison us while webelieve they're taking care of
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us, and let's not rely on bigfood to feed us.
Let's get off the teeth of bigfood.
All right, have a wonderful day.
Look for those links in theshow notes on Spotify and also
on my website.
All right, talk soon.
Why protesting Kellogg's is a waste of time.
Yeah, that's something I'vebeen considering as I've been
watching the news and so forth.
As you might know, there was aprotest in front of Kellogg's I
believe it was theirheadquarters or corporate
offices and there was a hugeshowing, a lot of support in
this protest.
A lot of parents, a lot offamilies were showing up in
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front of Kellogg's demandinghealthier cereal.
Because what's going on is thatin Europe, kellogg's is
producing cereal andspecifically they were bringing
up Froot Loops because of allthe colors and all of that.
In Europe they produce FrootLoops let's just narrow it down
and keep it at Froot Loops withnatural dyes that come from
(00:44):
fruits and from vegetables andfood-based dyes, whereas in the
US they produce Froot Loops withtoxic chemical dyes, dyes that
are created in the lab.
And so some very angry parentsand very angry people as rightly
they should be angry why isKellogg's basically poisoning
(01:05):
their cereal sold in the US?
So these protesters went thereand were demanding better,
healthier cereal and while Ideeply appreciate the passion
and the intention behind theprotest, it wasn't really very
effective in changing Kellogg'smind.
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In fact, kellogg, in response,holds up a sign outside the
window, not in our lawn.
Now, that was an employee, I'msure you know.
And maybe Kellogg's will comeback and say, oh no, we didn't
mean that.
You know, they may try to coverit up, but here's the truth.
But here's the truth.
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Kellogg's doesn't care.
These big food companies well,let's just say, every company,
every company, has one goal inmind to make money.
You don't go into business tolose money.
You go.
You know, if you don't worryabout making money, you go into
charity work.
But every business has aninterest in making money.
That's true and there's nothingwrong with that.
The problem is when you have abusiness that wants to make a
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profit but has no integrity inthe way that they do it.
Now, these big food companies,their biggest goal is to make
money and turn a profit, and theway they do it is they choose
the cheapest ingredients theycan find and sell it at the
highest price that they can.
Now, in Europe, the governmenthas said, hey, we're not going
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to allow these chemicals in ourfood.
So if Kellogg's wants to selltheir product in Europe, well,
they have to abide by theregulations that the government
set forth in what is allowablein our food, in their food?
Well, in our country,unfortunately, our government is
not looking out for us, so theFDA is very loosey-goosey with
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what is put into our food, andso if these corporations can get
away with it, they're going tomake it as cheaply as possible.
Now we could say that Kellogg'sdidn't know.
Well, okay, let's give them thebenefit of the doubt for just a
second.
Let's say they didn't know thatthe chemicals were toxic and so
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, oh my goodness, we broughtawareness to them that they know
now.
And so now they're going tochange the way they make their
product.
Well, that's crap.
Of course they know.
They know that the food ispoisonous.
They know that the food istoxic.
The fact that they will sell itin one way in Europe and then
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not sell it the same way in theUS means they're just doing it
for profit.
They don't care about yourhealth.
Our health is not in their bestinterest.
They don't care one way oranother.
If they make a buck, they makea buck, and that's really all
they care about.
So because of that, how muchdifference does it make to
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protest, to stand out there,wave our fist in the air, hold
up signs and demand something?
It doesn't make much of aneffect because they're already
aware of the problem.
They just don't care.
But what they do care about istheir bottom line.
So let's take Bud Light, forinstance.
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The boycott on Bud Light.
Now, you didn't see a bunch ofburly men on their Harleys
standing outside of, you know,anheuser-busch protesting with
signs.
They just made the simpledecision to say, hey, you know
what?
We're not going to buy yourproduct.
And they didn't.
They shared it on the internet.
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It went viral and people justrefused to buy the product.
Now, for whatever the reason,right, whether you agree with
the reason that they boycottedor not, it doesn't matter the
boycott was successful, sosuccessful that Anheuser-Busch
started losing money and thatwoke them up.
But at this point and that wokethem up, but at this point it
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was so successful this boycottBud Light may never, ever
recover.
You know, there was a time inthe early 2000s when we didn't
have social media.
Let me tell you a story so youmay be aware of this.
You might not be.
There was, I believe it was, adoctor I can't remember if he
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was a doctor or a scientist, buthe was taking Nabisco to court
and over Oreo cookies.
I believe that's Nabisco, soOreo cookies.
At that time, hydrogenated fatwas in most processed foods and
it became aware that hydrogenatefat was obviously toxic.
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We know that now, but it wasobviously toxic.
And so in order to really buildawareness for the hydrogenate
fats and how unhealthy they areand how prevalent they were in
our foods this is in the early2000s this doctor threatened to
sue Nabisco.
Well, the court case never wentthrough.
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But the important thing was notabout going to court and suing
Nabisco, it was about bringingto light hydrogenated fat and
the dangers of hydrogenated fat,which it did.
Now, at that time again, therewas no social media, things
didn't.
There was no viral videos, noneof that.
You know.
You had to make a big splash inthe media, in the news, on the
radio, and that's what happenedand that's what brought on a lot
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of the public awareness.
That was great, right.
So that was a wonderful exampleof you know, doing something to
bring the public aware.
Here's the problem.
We still have hydrogenated fatsin our processed foods.
Oh, they're not necessarilylabeled as hydrogenated fats,
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because if it's under a certainamount that has been deemed safe
, generally regarded as safe orgrass by our government, then
they don't have to list it.
So it's still lurking in ourproducts, it's just not listed.
Now that's the same way withMSG.
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Msg was considered, wasdetermined to be a neurotoxin
causing neurological disorders,very toxic to the brain and body
.
So there was a big pressure forcompanies to remove their MSG.
And MSG is a flavoring enhancerto make the food taste good,
right, so there was a bigpressure to remove MSG from food
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that we were consuming.
Well, so the companies complied, so we think.
But no, they didn't.
Msg actually just became wasjust hidden under the term
natural flavorings.
You see, companies food labels.
They don't necessarily have tolabel every ingredient that's in
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your food If that ingredient isa smaller part of a larger
ingredient.
So again, natural flavorings.
Right, you see the term naturalflavorings.
You think it's natural?
Well, you know, no, it's not.
But you look at it and go, oh,but we don't know what is the
natural flavorings?
What are they?
We don't know.
Well, one of those quoteunquote natural flavorings is
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MSG.
So we still have MSG in ourfoods, we still have
hydrogenated fat in our foods.
It's just not labeled.
You just don't know.
So because of that, because thecompanies can, even if they nod
their head in agreement, oh yes,oh yes, now we are aware of how
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toxic our foods are and ofcourse we don't want to poison
anyone.
Well, of course your health isimportant to us.
Right, let's say they did that,okay.
But the truth is they mayremove it off the label and you
think that it's off the label,it's no longer in the food, but
all they've done is eitherchange the name or they've
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included it in part of anotheringredient, so we don't notice
it.
So again, another reason thatprotesting Kellogg's or any big
food company is a waste of time.
Do I think protesting is a wasteof time altogether?
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No, absolutely not.
I do not.
When it comes to our absolutesurvival, say, our water, the
air that we breathe, thosethings are absolutely necessary
and we need to raise as muchhell as we possibly can.
But cereal, the truth is, nomatter how many red dyes they
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remove from Froot Loops, frootLoops is never going to become a
health food.
It's just not.
It's filled with sugar, it's.
The grains have been haveglyphosate.
You know it's.
There's nothing healthy aboutFroot Loops.
You know the box nothing.
The plastics, nothing.
There's nothing healthy.
There's no one case that FrootLoops will ever be a nourishing
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meal for your family.
So why, again, is it a waste oftime to protest Kellogg's?
Because you're protesting afood that's never going to be
good for us anyway.
And the thing about that isthat when we are saying make
better food, make better food,all we're really doing is
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continuing to demand to suck onthe teat of big food to feed us,
suck on the teat of big food tofeed us.
We are continuing to demandthat these big companies control
us, because that's what we'redoing.
We're giving up our power whenwe bow down and we say, hey, do
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this, do this, do we really needcereal?
Cereal is not a survival food.
Cereal Cereal is not a survivalfood.
But we are turning ournutrition and we're turning over
our food system to these foodcompanies and we may be
demanding them to change it, butwe're still enslaved to the
food company and it'll never behealthy food.
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So what a waste of time.
That is, to me, a better use oftime is to boycott.
If you really really, based onwhat happened with Bud Light,
don't buy the food.
Don't buy the food.
Share it on social media what'sgoing on?
And don't buy the food.
Make their stocks come down,make their profits come down.
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That's going to get them to dosomething.
I don't know if it'll beactually anything legitimate or
they could just be again, hidethe ingredients stealthily, put
it in there without you knowing,but it might do something.
But what really is a better useof time is to learn how to feed
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yourself Instead of relying onbig food to produce our foods
for us.
We get back to the farmer, weget back to creating and making
foods ourselves.
I know that breakfast can be acrazy time, right, but the thing
about breakfast is it doesn'thave to be if you prepare.
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For instance, one of the thingsthat I do is I will make a
whole batch of hard-boiled eggson the weekend for the week One,
two dozen, and I have them forthe week.
I will cook up a batch of baconand I love cold bacon as a
snack or even for breakfast, andI will keep that in the
refrigerator.
I also make a properly preparedporridge, which is where the
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grains are prepared to bedigested, which your commercial
cereals are never going to bethat way and then I make enough
for the week and then everymorning you can take some out,
you throw it in the stovetop, onthe, in a saucepan, and you
warm it up in a little pot andyou have a fast, nutritious
breakfast.
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Serve it with some butter,serve it with some raw milk and
you have a beautiful.
It's fast and it's notexpensive.
My goodness, cereal is soexpensive.
I haven't bought cereal in along time, but I remember how
expensive it was decades ago.
I can't imagine what the priceof it is right now.
I think a better effort might beA boycott.
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Yes, stop spending your moneywhere they go, stop spending
your money in these companies.
But B start taking bettercontrol over our own health and
our own choices.
Start, you know, supporting ourfarmers who are creating these
beautiful eggs.
And beware that, even if you'rebuying organic, even if you
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think you're doing all the rightthings, a lot of these smaller
companies are actually boughtand owned by these larger food
corporations, owned by theselarger food corporations, which
is, you know, disheartening.
But even companies like, Iremember, one of my favorite
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vitamin companies back in theday was Garden of Life and
Nestle bought them out.
And then you havepharmaceutical companies who own
vitamin companies.
You know, it's even your, youknow, your seventh generation.
All these different companiesthat we used to be able to trust
has now been sold and purchasedby these larger corporations
and so even those smaller.
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You know natural looking labelsthat are in our Whole Foods,
labels that are in our WholeFoods.
You know you can't trustanymore Even Whole Foods.
I mean, I loved Whole Foods,going to Whole Foods when I was
young, my kids were young, weused to love it and then they
got bought out by Amazon andthey are not the same.
I haven't been there for a longtime, but it was brought to my
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attention that if you buy theirpackage baked goods, if you turn
over the package it'll saygenetically modified foods in it
or genetically modifiedproducts.
Whatever the label is, this isat Whole Foods.
What happens with these naturalproducts, unfortunately, is
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that even they, they aretrusting that.
You have faith in them.
So you go into Whole Foods andyou may be buying the same.
You know items that you've beenbuying for years and you don't
look at the packages.
You know you trust Whole Foods.
It's called Whole Foods for areason it costs a lot of money
for a reason right, wholepaycheck.
So you're trusting that they'redoing the right thing, and as
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we should be able to trust thatthey're doing the right thing
right and so they rely on thattrust and then they change the
labels on you and we're nolonger looking at the labels
because we trust them.
Until we do look at the labelsand we go oh my gosh, what are
they doing?
So again protesting?
Is it absolutely a waste oftime?
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No, but who should we beprotesting?
You know it's not Kellogg'sfault.
Hear me out.
Kellogg's is doing what acompany does.
It's make it buck.
That's what Kellogg's wants todo.
That's what every company wantsto do.
Now you hope that they would doit with integrity and honesty,
but most of these big foodcompanies don't care, as I
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already said.
So where do our protests belong?
Well, because Europe doesn'tallow those kinds of foods,
those dyes, those chemicals intotheir country.
It's because the government hasbanned them.
Our government, our FDA, playsloosey-goosey again with the
generally recognized, orsometimes it's called regarded
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as safe.
This is a term that somechemicals that are used in our
food products and our beautycare products.
We think everything's beentested, it's all been FDA
approved and been tested.
Oh, that's nonsense.
It really hasn't.
We think it, and it's not true,unfortunately.
Generally regarded as safe is aterm that is used for a food
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that really has never beenproven to be safe.
In fact, a company does its owntesting.
It's not third company testedor third body tested.
A company tests their ownproduct and then turns the
studies into the FDA and the FDAgoes oh okay, it looks pretty
good to me.
Well, I'll tell you what to do.
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If anything changes, submit anew study, let us know, and
that's it.
There's no proof that it'shealthy, there's no proof that
it's safe, and this is whatcompanies get away with Because
our government well, let's behonest, they're all in cahoots
together Big Pharma, big Food,fda, cdc name a government
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agency that isn't in cahoots NIHall of these companies or,
excuse me, agencies, are incahoots with these big
corporations.
They're all drinking from thesame trough.
I mean, they're all gettingtheir kickbacks.
They're all serving one another.
So if we want to protest, weneed to start with our
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politicians.
We need to start with our localpoliticians and our state
politicians and our federalpoliticians, who are supposed to
be serving the people, and wenail them to the cross, in the
sense of we email and we sendviral what these politicians are
doing or not doing to protectus and we continue and continue
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to push that out and we get outand we vote.
I'm very excited about RFK Jrgetting into the picture with
Trump, very excited.
I hope we can make Americahealthy again.
If anyone can do it, I believehe can.
He has the clout and hecertainly has the knowledge and
experience and the backing.
So I'm very excited about that.
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So what I'm saying is put yourprotest, put the energy of
protesting, where it counts.
If the government wouldn'tallow and I'm not about big
government, right, but I amabout honest government and if
the government is gettingkickbacks and again in cahoots
with these corporations, right.
These agencies making money offallowing these corporations to
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poison us, they need to beregulated.
These agencies right, which iswhy RFK is going to be a great
addition to the team.
But our protests need to go tothe people who are supposed to
be representing us.
Kellogg's it's a food, it's acereal.
Don't buy it.
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But if our government wouldrefuse for us to be poisoned,
refuse for us to have toxins inour foods, just like they do in
Europe, then Kellogg's wouldremove them.
But just us saying, hey, removethem, remove them, we want your
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food.
No, they know that you're notgoing to stop buying their food.
I mean that's what they believe.
Just because you protest, stopbuying their food.
No, they know that you're notgoing to stop buying their food.
I mean that's what they believe.
Just because you protest, stopbuying their food, start relying
on your own self to create andmake a healthy breakfast for
your family.
And if you want something done,you got to get out and vote.
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And you got to get out and yougot to to nail your politicians.
Nail them to the wall, callthem on the carpet, spread that
out like wildfire, because thensomething will be done Again,
rfk Jr coming in, hopefullymaking some changes with these
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agencies, hopefully bringingsome awareness of everything
that's going on.
I mean, I don't know how reallywe can still trust our
government after the past fouryears and still what they're
continuing to do, but manypeople still do and still aren't
aware of the dangers of ourfood system and our drug system
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and all of these systems thathave really just taken advantage
of our ignorance and ourcompliance.
So protesting itself isn'tnecessarily a waste of time, but
protest where it counts,because as long as the
government lets thesecorporations get away with it,
these corporations are going tocontinue to play sneaky.
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They're going to continue to dowhat they can do to make food
cheaply and make as much moneyoff you, off me, off us as
possible.
So protest where it matters, atour government, at our
officials, and take your moneyand put it where it matters.
You're small farmers, you'retruly companies with true
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integrity.
So three things I want to sharewith you, and it'll be in the
show notes.
One is my properly preparedporridge that I talked about,
that I make once a week and thisis great when you have kids.
Right, when my grandbaby came,I made this and I kept it in the
refrigerator and we had it.
I also make pancakes.
That's another thing I did is Iwould prepare and make a batch
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of pancakes.
You know, healthy pancakes madewith wonderful organic flours
that were that the flour wassoaked and it was fermented, so
it was wonderfully digestibleand nutritious, and I would make
them a big batch and then I'dfreeze them, and so what I would
do is make each pancake andthen I would layer a parchment
paper and then stack anotherpancake, and I would do that,
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and then I'd wrap the wholething in these stacks of
pancakes in parchment paper andthen stick them in a plastic bag
and then put it in the freezerand then, when we wanted
pancakes, I would pull outhowever many pancakes we wanted,
and I didn't use the microwave,but I did have a convection
oven and I would put it in thereand it would warm up within
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minutes.
You know, is it a little moretime consuming than just
throwing open a box of cerealand some milk?
Yeah, I mean by minutes, though.
By minutes.
But the health you know, thehealth benefit you receive by
feeding your family real food,which Fruit Loops, is never
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going to become, no matter whatwe do.
It's so worth it, it's so worthit.
Just a little preparation onthe weekends, prepare for the
week's so worth it, it's soworth it.
Just a little preparation onthe weekends, prepare for the
week, so worth it.
So I want to share three thingswith you and it'll be in the
show notes.
One is my recipe for theproperly prepared porridge Make
on a Sunday and have it for therest of the week.
The other is two resources tohelp you find companies with
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integrity.
One is from the Western Price,western A Price Foundation.
It's westernapricefoundationorg.
They have an app that you canactually put on your phone and
take shopping.
I think it's called Real Foodsapp.
They also put out a journalyearly of the companies that
they trust, and so I'll put alink to that so you can become a
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member of Weston A PriceFoundation Excellent, I think
it's $40 for the year and youget journals I think it's
quarterly journals and thenaccess to all their papers and
research and blog posts, as wellas these food journals as well
that come out yearly.
And then I'm also going to giveyou another resource.
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It's called the EnvironmentalWorking Group and this is online
.
They also have an app where youcan check for products that you
have and these are basicallylike household beauty products
that you use, cleaning products,that type of thing and they
give it a rating based on howgreen it is, meaning how healthy
it is, and how toxic it is, andso you can look at both of
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those places to one to find realfood.
They even have Western A PriceI'm talking about right now has
even what's called a 12 spoons,where they list restaurants that
follow the Western A Pricefoundations uh, foundations, um,
food right, uh, food theorybeliefs.
You know the, the foundation offood, their ancestral ways of
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eating, um, the organic, healthyway of eating.
So they have 12, uh spoons,which tells you the different
restaurants and you can find one, possibly, hopefully, in your
area that uh abide by Western,by Western Price's food
philosophies.
Then, and then theenvironmental working group.
So I will put both of thoselinks so you can look at them
and find their apps and get inwith them and check the products
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you're using and see if they'rereally as non-toxic as the
label claims them to be, see ifthe company is one that has
integrity and your health inmind, and then I'll send you my
recipe.
All right, so again, protest,put your protesting energy where
it counts the most.
Hit our government, hit thosepoliticians that are supposed to
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be representing us, not theirback pocket, and put your money
right where your mouth is, ordon't put your money and don't,
and boycott and don't buy theseproducts.
Those two ways are going to, Ithink, in my opinion, from what
I've seen, are going to be thebest ways to stick it to big
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food and big government.
We can do it, we can take backour health, but let's do it
efficiently, let's do it in away that really really makes a
difference in the long run,because there's too many
loopholes for these corporationsthat they have to still
continue to poison us while webelieve they're taking care of
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us, and let's not rely on bigfood to feed us.
Let's get off the teeth of bigfood.
All right, have a wonderful day.
Look for those links in theshow notes on Spotify and also
on my website.
All right, talk soon.
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