Vani Hari, "The Food Babe": We've gotten Subway to remove Azodicarbonamide

"We've gotten Subway to remove Azodicarbonamide as well as every bread manufacturer in America. This was a chemical that you'd find in yoga mats and shoe rubber band all over the globe. You get fined $450,000 if you get caught using it in Singapore.

We got Starbucks to remove a caramel color level four, which is an ammonia based dye linked to cancer according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. We got them to post their ingredients for all their menu items, which they hid from the public for such a long time. We got the beer manufacturers, Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, to release the ingredients in beer for the first time in history.

You know, it was so funny, every time I would open up the fridge, the one thing I didn't know the ingredients for was my husband's Newcastle beer. And I was just like well, knowing what they had known about the food industry, I was like, they've gotta be hiding something in there. And I found out all kinds of stuff the beer industry was doing.

They were putting natural flavors, caramel coloring to make the hops look darker than they should, all high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup in beer. I mean, all kinds of things were being added to beer. Whereas again, in Europe, they have a German purity law that you can only use certain ingredients to call it beer. Right. You know, we got in craft to remove artificial food dyes from mac and cheese.

We've gotten General Mills to remove BHT from their cereals. Um, I mean, Chick-fil-A to remove several different chemicals from their entire menu items, including artificial dyes and TBHQ. Um, they went antibiotic free for a long time and they just actually went back on their promise this year, which was so sad. And they cited problems in the supply chain and it's just a really sad thing that happened.

But it just goes to show you, there's gotta be somebody holding these companies accountable. Where are the people in Washington? Where are our elected politicians? Where are the other activists that are actually holding these companies accountable? Yes, there could be regulation changes and all of that.

But I feel like if we go directly to the companies that are making these products and we target them, they will change. I've shown it over and over again. And that's why I chose Kellogg's because they are targeting little children, the most vulnerable of children, with new products like Baby Shark and Disney's Little Mermaid. Their latest product they just released yesterday is Squishmallows made after a stuffed animal that all these kids of the day love. They're making a cereal about that.

It's crazy that they would have gotten all the positive press back in 2015 to remove, for removing these dyes and BHT and then decided not to do it. And so they got all the wonderful press and all the people wrote about it and then they never did it."