Food industry spends 13 times more on foundational nutrition research than the NIH

Calley Means: "The reason there's such a fight against you is because it's this 100-year change of information sources where the biggest industries in the country can no longer dictate what the information sources are.

So when we worked for, when I worked for Pharma, the advertising budget, all this stuff you hear about like how much they spend on cable news and 50% of TV news spending is Pharma, it wasn't to impact consumers. It was to impact the news itself. Like that like like the spin on news shows came out of DC lobbying offices, not the New York like Madison Avenue, like like advertising offices.

It was like we're going to put our budget was in the lobbying budget. It was like we're going to pay off all the news. So we have a direct line. So if you're paying 50% and a huge funder of all the all the tech companies, ads, their ad companies, then you've got a direct line.

And then you've got the Harvard study. So when you have the Harvard study that's fully funded by pharma or the food industry, like the food industry processed foods spends 13 times more on foundational nutrition research than the NIH. But even the NIH is really conflicted saying that lucky terms are healthier than beef, literally. You've got those studies.

So what is this person at the news station or YouTube to do when you got the Harvard study. They've realized that you can weaponize this thing. So that's how it's connected. And then time and time and time again, I hear from members of Congress on major committees, they're just, that's the corruption.

That's where the corruption happens. They got the lobbyists just throwing studies. You know, if you put restrictions on childhood nutrition on federally funded school lunch programs, which is the top source, one of them of calories for young kids.

If you take sugary cereal like Lucky Charms off that, you're going into the science. You're going into the NIH. You can't be asking for farm fresh eggs. Farm fresh eggs are down here. Lucky charms are up here. Like it's funny, these studies, but that's what they do with them.

And then I hear time and time again from these members of Congress who are good people, but it's like, Cal, I'm a military guy, or I come from business. I don't understand this stuff. You just gotta defer. So that's how the corruption works. And that's how the research connects to PR, yeah."