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Food Babe’s MAHA Mission | 2.2.25

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🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Food Babe Vani Hari explains her support for RFK Jr. during his Senate confirmation hearings and how her personal story led her to fight to remove harmful chemicals from children’s food. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Make America Healthy Again Champion, RFK Jr. was grilled on Capitol Hill this week as part of his confirmation process to become Health and Human Services Secretary.

0:13.3

Despite fierce opposition from some senators, parents and health advocates on both sides of the aisle have lined up to support him.

0:20.9

In this episode, we speak with Vonie Hari, long-time food activist and New York Times best-selling

0:26.4

author who was in the room supporting Kennedy during his Senate hearings. She'll explain why

0:31.2

she believes parents are finally winning the battle to get chemicals out of kids' food. I'm Georgia

0:36.2

Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley.

0:39.4

It's Sunday, February 2nd, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

0:46.9

Joining us to discuss the war over chemical-laced, packaged food is Vani Hari, best-selling author,

0:53.2

activist, and creator of the Food Babe blog.

0:56.2

Vani, thanks so much for coming on.

0:58.1

Thank you so much for having me.

0:59.9

So first off, tell me a little bit about your path to food activism.

1:03.6

How did you become interested in nutrition to begin with?

1:06.5

Yeah, my parents came here as immigrants in the 1960s.

1:11.2

And when they came to the United States, they were big on adopting the American culture.

1:17.4

And so when my dad went back to have an arranged marriage to my mother in India,

1:21.8

and they ended up coming here to live the rest of their life,

1:24.6

the first thing he introduced her to was a McDonald's hamburger.

1:29.5

And that's how I was raised on an American Standard Diet.

1:33.6

We were one of the only Indian families in Charlotte at that point,

1:37.2

Charlotte, North Carolina, where I grew up and where I live now.

1:40.2

So everything was kind of handed to us in terms of what we should be eating.

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