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The Economics of Disease: Why the System Wants You Sick - SF513

Stay Free with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

News, Politics

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today I'm speaking with Calley Means, a former Big Food insider turned advocate for health reform. Calley has exposed the deep ties between corporate interests and public health policy, detailing how these relationships perpetuate chronic illness for profit. We discuss his transition from industry to advocacy, the systemic issues within healthcare and food systems, and the spiritual and economic dimensions of America's chronic disease crisis. This conversation dives into the structural, political, and cultural battles ahead to reclaim health and well-being in the United States.

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0:00.0

Hello there, you're Awakening Wonders. Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

0:03.5

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0:08.2

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0:14.1

because the Trusted News Initiative, the Media Union, that ensures harmony between mainstream media resources,

0:20.5

will not like this conversation and will

0:23.1

not want you to hear it. If the world of academia, politics and big food were ever to have a

0:29.4

Justin Bieber, it would be this man, a fresh-faced youngster that emerged seemingly from nowhere

0:36.2

to become one of the most influential voices in American health.

0:40.3

I'm talking about Cali Means, whose ideas and policies change the conversation, not only in America, but across the world.

0:48.3

When it comes to the economics of health and the ecology of sickness that is required to maintain control of America,

0:57.2

American lives and American finances.

0:59.4

Your sickness is their profit.

1:01.9

In some extraordinary miracle of alchemy, in some sort of cosmic or ordained event,

1:07.0

Cali Means has moved from the periphery to the very heart of the establishment as a result of the Maha movement,

1:13.2

the rise of Bobby Kennedy and the victory of Donald Trump in the recent election.

1:18.6

So Callie Means, who I used to speak to a couple of years ago, as an interesting ingenue and writer and expert,

1:25.9

former employee of Big big food he worked at

1:28.4

Coca-Cola is now like talking to someone who praise God could be

1:33.1

integrally involved in creating a better new healthier America what an honor

1:38.9

it is to introduce Callie means welcome Callie it's great to be here, Russell. You're too kind. Man, like they do say to men in the

1:48.9

position you find yourself in now, well, now the hard work begins in earnest. What are the challenges

1:56.2

that you imagine will be faced? Because even though we have the near miracle of a man like

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