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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

THE FOOD BABE’S NEXT BIG BATTLE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Founder of Food Babe & Truvani, Vani Hari, joins Del in the wake of her powerful testimony at Senator Ron Johnson’s roundtable discussion on health. They discuss what started her passion for uncovering dangerous chemicals in everyday foods that led to her becoming a leading activist against America’s food industry. Hear how you can get involved in her fight against Kelloggs to remove harmful food dyes and BHT from kids cereals.

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0:00.0

I think we're one of the only you know news institutions that actually does something

0:05.5

about it but actually my next guest I think falls exactly into that category it's really

0:10.4

easy to bitch about the problems of the world and point out how you know it's all a disaster and how you do it better if you had a chance

0:18.3

But it actually takes some ingenuity to figure out how to have a voice, to inspire people, to want to make a difference,

0:27.0

but then figuring out how do you talk to the corporations you're trying to change,

0:31.0

instead of just insulting them and putting them on the defense

0:34.0

is the way to actually just convince them they'd be better off making the change.

0:39.4

That is what makes this next guest really one of a kind. Of course, I'm talking about Vani Hari, the food

0:45.3

babe. You probably know who she is, but if you don't, take a look at this.

0:49.8

We have my good friend Bonnie Harry in the house.

0:53.0

She's the food babe, Vanny Harry.

0:55.0

Vani Harry, known as the food babe.

0:58.0

The food babe herself, Bonnie Harry is here.

1:00.0

Here's Vani Harry, the food bays.

1:02.0

Vani Hari joins me now to talk about her efforts.

1:04.0

She calls herself Food Babe.

1:06.0

She's an activist blogger who's blowing the whistle on a major food chain.

1:10.0

I grew up like most people on the standard American diet eating all of the junk food all the processed foods all the fast food and it really affected my health when I started to clean up my diet all of my ailments vanished.

1:25.0

I started food babe out of passion of telling the people around me what's really in

1:30.9

their food and they wanted to know my friends and my family

1:34.2

wanted to know what I did to transform my health. I wrote a blog post called

1:38.2

Chick-fil-A or Chemical Fala and it got so viral that I think chick fillet took notice and shortly

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