Ex-Lobbyist: This Isn’t Normal. It’s the Beginning of a New Crisis | Calley Means

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Calley Means about his background as a former lobbyist in the food and pharmaceutical industries; how the U.S. health care system profits off of worsening public health, infertility, and obesity; how pharmaceutical companies influence medical education and policy; the impact of processed foods on American health, especially due to chemicals banned in Europe; the role of independent media in exposing corporate and institutional corruption; how these systemic issues fuel populist movements in politics; the rise in ultra-processed food consumption since the 1990s; how the USDA, FTC, and other institutions have been co-opted by the food and cigarette industries; why toxic additives that are banned in other countries are prevalent in U.S. foods; how capitalism and corporate cronyism drive a metabolic health crisis; the political divide between bold reform advocates like Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. versus proponents of incremental change; how independent media can help Americans reclaim health freedom by questioning harmful policies and industry practices; the fallout from COVID policies and their societal impact; how lockdowns and pharmaceutical interests harmed public health, especially with metabolic health issues and childhood obesity; the pharmaceutical industry's strong influence on media, politics, and regulatory agencies; the need for systemic reform in health care, such as removing conflicts of interest in the NIH; practical health tips, like eliminating seed oils and processed grains, for better wellness; solutions for reforming U.S. health and food systems; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	Joining me today is a New York Times bestselling author, a wellness entrepreneur and co-founder of TrueMed, a company focused on integrating healthier lifestyle choices with health care
0:55.4	spending accounts. Callie Means, I am extremely happy to have you in studio finally. It's good to be
1:01.0	here. I'm up to be here. I realized as you walked in, this is, I believe, my last interview before
1:07.0	the election. So it might be my last interview ever, depending on what happens. It might be in jail. Really? Oh, we could be jailed. We're the election. So it might be my last interview ever, depending on...
1:11.0	It might be in jail.
1:13.0	Really? Oh, we could be jailed. We're the ones that can jail? Well, they keep telling us they're
1:17.5	going to be jailed, but we could be jailed just for talking about health and things of that nature.
1:21.6	So it's kind of funny. I sort of wanted to have you on this week as a little bit of a break
1:26.1	from the political racehorse stuff. And yet,
1:29.0	in a weird way, everything you do as it relates to health and farming and factory farming and all
1:35.1	of these things has become deeply political. So before we get to the political part, can you just
1:40.1	tell people that may not know too much about you, just a little bit of your background,
1:43.3	how you got involved in this, and then we'll kind of connect it to everything else?
1:46.8	Yeah, I used to be a lobby Australian micro curve of the food and pharma industry.
1:49.9	And I think the one stat that I honestly just put my head around actually recently, but defines
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