RFK Jr.'s food-dye fight.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In the past two months, several major U.S. food companies have voluntarily committed to removing artificial food dyes from their products, following a plan from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to work with the industry to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes. In June, Heinz and General Mills committed to removing synthetic dyes from all their products by the end of 2027, while Nestlé committed to their removal by the end of 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:22.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of |
| 0:26.3 | my take. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Robert F. Kennedy, |
| 0:32.0 | Jr. versus the food additives, versus big food. |
| 0:36.6 | He's taken on big food, kind of. We're going to talk about some of the stuff happening. Pretty interesting story, some opinions from the left and the right. And today, some opinions from experts in the space, which I think are really worth highlighting. And then, as always, I'll share my take. It is Wednesday, July 30th. It's going to be a good one. This is a good |
| 0:56.0 | episode. I'm going to send it over to John for today's main topic, and I'll be back from my take. |
| 1:07.4 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. Here are your quick hits for today. First up, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off of Russia's Pacific coast triggered tsunami waves that reached Hawaii and other U.S. states along the West Coast. A tsunami warning initially issued for all of Hawaii was downgraded to an advisory. Number two, the Senate voted 50 to 49 to confirm |
| 1:29.4 | Emil Boeuf to serve on the third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bov formally worked as President |
| 1:35.2 | Donald Trump's personal lawyer in his New York Hushmoney trial and defended the president |
| 1:39.9 | in two of his federal criminal cases. Bove also served as acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General from January to March 2025. |
| 1:48.4 | Number three, British Prime Minister Kier-Starmer said that the United Kingdom would |
| 1:52.4 | recognize a Palestinian state if Israel did not take immediate action to end the war in Gaza. |
| 1:58.3 | The announcement follows France's decision last week to recognize a |
| 2:01.4 | Palestinian state. Number four, the Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal to rescind |
| 2:06.8 | regulations on vehicle emissions and scaleback rules on power plant emissions. The agency argues |
| 2:13.0 | that it does not have the authority to regulate these emissions under the Clean Air Act. |
| 2:17.9 | And number five, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced an $85 billion merger deal. |
| 2:23.5 | The companies will seek to create the first U.S. Transcontinental Railroad Network. |
| 2:28.5 | The Surface Transportation Board will review the proposed merger. |
| 2:45.5 | Keeping his campaign promise to make America healthy again, |
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