The Food Babe: What the Food Industry Doesn't Want You To Know.
Underground Wellness Radio
Sean Croxton
4.6 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Vani Hari — author of The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hiddden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days — returns to the podcast to respond to her critics, to reveal which food ingredients may be making you sick, and to uncover the real truth about GMO labeling laws.
Here’s what we talked about:
3:20 – How the Food Babe went from helping friends and family to having a HUGE impact on the food industry – and how she deals with personal attacks.
9:12 – Pointing the finger at Big Food vs taking personal responsibility. Are we just playing the victim here?
16:35 – Is it even possible to know that a food additive is safe … and the moral obligation of food companies to do something about it.
20:02 – Why scientific research isn’t the only thing to take into account when deciding on evidence.
24:45 – Why there is “no defense” for using most chemicals in food.
27:05 – Why big brands and popular products are the best way to get people’s attention … even though Kraft Mac and Cheese will never be real food.
29:45 – Once you know it you cannot unlearn it! A lesson from Vani’s former favorite cheat treat.
32:30 – The Food Babe’s big pet peeve about health food stores and why she hasn’t targeted them. Yet!
35:04 – How 50,000 signatures and a YouTube video helped get the “yoga mat” out of your sandwich and the BHT out of your morning cereal.
45:47 – Why we should be demanding transparency from food companies (and why they should be happy to deliver.)
46:44 – Fish bladder beer: is using the shock factor scary or empowering?
54:27 – What’s the hold up with GMO labeling? Plus what most big companies are actually spending their money on and how you could be supporting them without even knowing it!
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 318 of Underground Wellness Radio. |
| 0:03.3 | Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:04.6 | In Europe, most of these additives are considered guilty until proven innocent. |
| 0:09.6 | Here in the United States, we have the reverse standard. |
| 0:12.3 | They're considered innocent until proven guilty. |
| 0:15.1 | And unfortunately, the moral standard isn't always scientific. |
| 0:19.5 | And I believe that when a company finds out that an ingredient that they're using could be |
| 0:25.7 | harming children, could be harming anybody, that they have a moral and ethical obligation |
| 0:30.9 | to make their product the same, especially when they know how to do it. |
| 0:35.7 | Let's do it. |
| 0:36.5 | Let's do it. Let's do it. |
| 0:46.9 | Yo, what's up, y'all? |
| 0:49.8 | Welcome back to another episode of Underground Wellness Radio, brought to you by underground wellness.com. |
| 0:51.9 | Thank you so much for tuning in. |
| 0:53.7 | Today's interview is, I think, a really, |
| 0:56.5 | really good one. It's with Vani Hari, who is the author of The Food Babe Way. I read her book this |
| 1:02.0 | week. I read it in one day, which seldom happens when I'm reading a book, especially about food, |
| 1:07.1 | because I've read so many books about food that they've kind of become redundant after all of these years. |
| 1:13.6 | Great book taught me a lot. |
| 1:16.3 | You're going to learn a lot of it in this episode. |
| 1:18.2 | When I finished the book, I went through my highlights |
| 1:20.0 | and I prepared my questions. |
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