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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

FoodBabe: FDA Was Captured By Big Food

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to the full Senate, healthy food activist and entrepreneur Vani Hari is thrilled by the attention his focus on “Making America Healthy Again” is getting. Through her blog, called FoodBabe, she and has been a relentless advocate for healthier, safer products from America’s largest food companies, and frustrated by the capture of the Food and Drug Administration by lobbyists for Big Food.

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.0

He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.

0:09.0

Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably

0:16.0

done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington.

0:26.1

Be very prescient Eric Eggers. Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers. We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like

0:30.6

Peter Schweitzer have uncovered, and we're going to try to go further. Great investigative reporting,

0:36.1

Peter. You're the only one doing it.

0:37.6

Thank God.

0:38.6

Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,

0:43.4

The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:45.7

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:49.7

Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer, and welcome to the Drill Down.

0:52.4

When most people think about money and food, they think about the cost of food.

0:56.9

They think about inflation.

0:58.5

Today, we're going to talk about the cost of the food you eat and the health effects that it might have.

1:03.9

And we're going to talk about the big money in the food industry.

1:07.6

The host of this program, of course, is Eric Eggers.

1:10.2

Eric, you want any crazy unusual

1:11.9

diets these days? Yeah, I'm on a lobbying only diet. I'm only eating foods that people who are

1:17.9

actively lobbying the RFK of Senate confirmation process are responsible for. So it's basically

1:23.8

you can eat anything. And I am. Well, we're very fortunate. We actually have a

1:28.6

guest who's an expert in this subject. We are not. We're interested in the money and politics

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