Americans Are Not Eating ‘Real Food’—Here’s What You Need to Know: Vani Hari

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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Vani Hari. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on January 11, 2025.

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“Our bodies are not meant to handle these man-made chemicals that have been invented in the last 50 years. These chemicals are invented for one sole purpose, and that’s to improve the bottom line of the food industry, not improve our health.”

In this episode, Jan Jekielek interviews author and activist Vani Hari, popularly known as the “food babe.” For over a decade, she has been exposing toxic ingredients in America’s food—and getting companies to stop using them.

“[The FDA has] not reviewed the safety data of these artificial dyes in over 10 years. However, children’s consumption of these artificial food dyes have increased 500 percent,” says Hari.

“Our bodies are not meant to handle these man made chemicals that have been invented in the last 50 years. These chemicals are invented for one sole purpose, and that's to improve the bottom line of the food industry, not improve our health. It's to make them more money.”

Hari argues that food companies should add a warning label to every product that uses artificial food dyes, as they already do in Europe: “That would automatically almost force the food industry to remove them here as well, because they do not want parents to be concerned about their products,” she says.

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:01 - Chemicals in Food and Their Impact
0:01:27 - Differences in Food Regulations Globally
0:03:59 - FDA's Role and New Appointments
0:06:01 - Common Sense Policies and Conflicts of Interest
0:06:53 - Hazardous Chemicals in Food
0:08:45 - Vani Hari's Personal Journey and Advocacy
0:12:47 - The Addictive Nature of Processed Food
0:14:36 - The Role of Natural Flavors and Texture in Processed Food
0:16:47 - Vani Hari's Vision for Healthy Food
0:19:22 - The Impact of Vani Hari's Advocacy

“Unfortunately, our FDA is asleep at the wheel, and they're actually driving a bus right now through the gates of unhealthy hell with big food, big Chem and Big Pharma, all in the passenger seat, driving the shots right and calling the shots. We've got the FDA commissioner, the current one, Doctor Robert Califf, just saying in a Senate testimony that he will not criticize the food industry…. If the FDA will not criticize the food industry, who's going to do it? They admitted they have not reviewed the safety data of these artificial dyes in over 10 years. However, children's consumption of these artificial food diets have increased 500%.”

Vani Hari about Trump’s appointment of Robert Kennedy as Director of HHS and Jay Bhattacharya as head of NIH: “Those two appointments are phenomenal. Those two gentlemen get it. They understand that American companies should not poison us with ingredients they don't use in other countries. They understand the failure of our regulatory system, allowing over 10,000 chemicals in our food supply here in the United States, versus only 400 in Europe.”

“For the first time in history, we actually have a moment right now to educate the public in such a way that these issues can finally get the truth out right, and we have the opportunity to reach every single person and tell them the truth about what's happened to the food supply, and tell them the things that my parents didn't know when they came here to America from India, and they were so trusting of the American food system, and they thought it was so amazing being able to go to McDonald's and find a cheap meal for their family, right?”

“They actually make the texture easier for you to digest, so you eat more of that product before your brain can recognize that you're full. I mean, look at processed bread, how soft and easy it is to digest, and compare that to a homemade loaf of sourdough bread, how it's chewy and crusty and it takes you a long time to bite through it and chew it up.”

“When I see an ingredient on a food label that isn't real food that has come from the earth, I put it back away when I see mono diglycerides or natural flavors, or high fructose corn syrup, or any of these chemicals, the artificial dyes and the artificial flavors and the partially hydrogen or hydrogenated soy and corn and canola oils, because those are things that we didn't evolve to consume. I really think that it's simple, and when you start to eat real food, meats, cheeses, nuts, seeds, beans, fruits and vegetables, your body starts working in a way that makes you closer to finding your purpose in life."

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