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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast Today. I am excited

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Speaker 1: but years ago I found a Vonnie Harry post and

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Speaker 1: it was about what was going on with our food.

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Speaker 1: And I think it was probably when my girls were

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Speaker 1: a little and I think actually it was before I

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Speaker 1: once I was diagnosed with cancer, watching everything that was

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Speaker 1: going on with our food. And I am so excited

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Speaker 1: because Ronnie Harry is here with me today. She's better

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Speaker 1: known as the Food Babe. She's also a New York

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Speaker 1: Times bestselling author and the founder of Food Babe and

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Speaker 1: True Vannie. She's become one of the most vocal voices

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Speaker 1: leading food activists and leading the charge against big corporations

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Speaker 1: like Callogg's to remove artificial food dice from their products,

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Speaker 1: especially those that are going out to kids. Vannie, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. I love that you,

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Speaker 2: uh you've been following. That's so cool, because yeah, I

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Speaker 2: feel like I've been doing this work my whole life.

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Speaker 3: I know it'll ever end because it's you know, the

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Speaker 3: feats are so screwed up.

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Speaker 1: But that's the thing. That's what I think people don't

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Speaker 1: know is that there have been people like you who

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Speaker 1: have been working on It's like we're all just kind

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Speaker 1: of waking up to it. And social media has really

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Speaker 1: blown up. And I think that Bobby Kennedy really blew

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Speaker 1: this story up and kind of paved the way for

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Speaker 1: other people to come out and go, hey, we've actually

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Speaker 1: been doing the work for the on this for years.

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Speaker 1: And I will just say that one of my relatives

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Speaker 1: had their daughter is the same age as my oldest daughter,

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Speaker 1: and so we watched them grow up together and and

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Speaker 1: moving ticks in her neck, in her head, in her head, area,

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Speaker 1: so her mom went and started doing all this research

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Speaker 1: like what could this be? And the doctors all immediately said,

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Speaker 1: put her on this pharmaceutical, put her on this pharmaceutical.

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Speaker 1: She said, no, I don't think so. And then she

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Speaker 1: found out food dice can cause this. Removed all food

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Speaker 1: dice no more tics. I mean, this is serious stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yes it is.

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Speaker 3: We're eating a chemical, poisonous soup in our food. The

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Speaker 3: these dead chemicals. You know, there's this underlying assumption that

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Speaker 3: of these chemicals and rubber stamped it and said it's

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Speaker 3: are thousands of chemicals that have no safety data that

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Speaker 3: are running rampant in our food supply. I mean, you've

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Speaker 3: is a neurotoxin. And we're you know, frying our French

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Speaker 2: And that's you know, what's happening. With Kelloggs.

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Speaker 3: Kellogg's back in twenty fifteen decided to say, you know, hey,

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Speaker 3: remove BHT from our cereals. And this was celebrated, and

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Speaker 3: what is your eht? BHT is an indocrine disrupting chemical

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Speaker 3: linked to cancer, so it's very harmful. They don't use

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Speaker 3: acts as a preservative so that the bag of cereal

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Speaker 3: they agreed to remove in twenty.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen, and they got amazing press on it.

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Speaker 3: People were celebrating Kelloggs for making this commitment and they

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Speaker 2: Rolled around and they didn't.

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Speaker 3: And they started to create new cereals every seasonal holiday

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Speaker 1: And it's it's so unfair because the kids see it

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, they see it and they want it, and

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Speaker 3: if they're targeting children with these products, they at least

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Speaker 3: that artificial dye causes hyperactivity in children. Because when Europe

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Speaker 3: know what, we need a warning label on any that

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Speaker 3: on activity and attention in children, so parents know that

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Speaker 2: Kelloggs and other.

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Speaker 3: You know, American food companies reformulated their products without these dyes,

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Speaker 3: making the exact same product that tastes the exact same

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Speaker 3: way for people in Europe taking out these chemicals and

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Speaker 3: using real food chemicals like carrot and blueberry juice and.

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Speaker 2: Watermelon juice to color their cereals there and.

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Speaker 3: Continue to use the artificial base dye here which is

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Speaker 3: made from petroleum and coal tar.

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Speaker 1: And why why is it cheaper? Like why why would you.

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Speaker 2: Do about shelf life?

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Speaker 3: So you know, carrot juice, blueberry juice breaks down faster

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Speaker 3: putting profits over our children, over people, They're putting poison

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Speaker 2: Uh. They were on the right side of history.

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Speaker 3: They were willing to make these changes, but then they

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Speaker 2: And there's nobody in government.

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Speaker 3: Right now holding these companies accountable. There is nobody saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: wait a minute, you said you were going to do this,

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Speaker 3: and you got all this positive press and it was

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Speaker 3: It's like they completely hoodwinked the American public and the

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Speaker 3: people like me and the amazing who I call the

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Speaker 3: food Babe army, the people out there that are not

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Speaker 3: only care about their health, but they care deeply about

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Speaker 3: spreading the word about this. Then these of companies, we

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Speaker 3: really up to us to hold them accountable. And that's

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Speaker 3: why I started a petition and now it has over

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Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty thousand signatures, and it's something that

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Speaker 3: across the food industry you cannot get away with this

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Speaker 3: selling the safer version of the same product to other

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Speaker 1: It's totally shocking because I think we don't even know

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Speaker 1: highest rate of mental illness. We have kids that are

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Speaker 1: struggling to focus in class, we have issues that no

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Speaker 1: in our food. And I think you're right. We have

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Speaker 1: elected officials. And you say, there's nobody in Washington that

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Speaker 1: I think this shows the ugly side of politics, the

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Speaker 1: here's what you get to run. Let's not get off

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Speaker 1: our back. Don't say anything about what we're doing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now this is cracked wide open. Nobody can say they

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Speaker 1: died of pancreatic cancer. And now they're saying, oh, all

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Speaker 1: not the food he consume it's not the food. Well,

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Speaker 1: It has to be what we're eating.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And I really think we need executive leadership on

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Speaker 3: on October fifteenth. And you know, I've been trying to

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to use all the contacts I have and

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Speaker 3: Other side, I have been able to reach other people

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Speaker 3: He said he's talking to Trump and RFK about being

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Speaker 3: kind of executive leadership we need that hold these companies accountable.

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Speaker 2: Show up when there.

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Speaker 3: Are hundreds of moms and dads and parents on the

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Speaker 2: We need people that.

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Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon podcast. Well, we'd like to see people

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Speaker 1: in our state. I mean, I am so grateful that

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Speaker 1: that Governor Whitmer would get involved. However, yesterday she was

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Speaker 1: that you've probably found some things in Dorito's as well

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Speaker 2: That makes me sad. That's actually.

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Speaker 3: The president the Vice president's favorite chip, according to a

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Speaker 3: Like you could call me anything else. A mother of

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Speaker 1: more with Bonnie Harry after this. I think that what

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Speaker 1: you said just now is so impactful for so many

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Speaker 1: people because we go, we give up. It's too hard,

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Speaker 1: we can't find it. And it makes me mad at

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Speaker 1: the grocery stores because I for me to get die

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Speaker 1: free died just to make cookies at at the house,

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Speaker 1: I have to go to the health food store, which

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Speaker 1: is out of the way, it's hard to get to,

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Speaker 1: and for me to find putting that doesn't have color

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Speaker 1: in it. You know, all of the ingredients that you want,

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Speaker 1: and it's not None of this is at the regular

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Speaker 1: grocery store. They do not have a section where you

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Speaker 1: can be free of all of the chemicals, which is

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Speaker 1: crazy because I heard someone the other day say, why

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Speaker 1: is there a health food section in the grocery store?

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Speaker 1: What's all the other food?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: And it's true, but even in the health food section,

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Speaker 1: you don't have anything free of these chemicals. They're everywhere.

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Speaker 1: It's very overwhelming, and we do look for Okay, what

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Speaker 1: can I throw in my kids lunchbox that's going to

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Speaker 1: fill them up. They're going to get through the day,

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Speaker 1: but they're not going to be poisoned. It's very hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is really hard. And so I think the

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Speaker 3: key thing that people need to recognize they have to

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Speaker 3: read ingredient labels. Read the ingredient labels, find out what

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Speaker 3: those chemicals are. If they're there for the purposes of

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Speaker 3: making the food companies more minde, don't buy that product anymore,

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Speaker 3: buy real food products.

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Speaker 1: How do you know? How do you know why it's

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Speaker 1: in there?

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Speaker 3: Well, if you don't recognize it and it's not ingredient

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Speaker 3: you would find in your own kitchen, then you put

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Speaker 3: it back. You use your common sense. Right, you don't

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Speaker 3: have to be a rocket scientist to be know how

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Speaker 3: to eat. The only people that have made food complicated

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Speaker 3: in the last sixty years are the food scientists themselves

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Speaker 3: at these food companies. Right, They've been able to create

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Speaker 3: these chemical chemicals to hijack our brain. So we remember

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Speaker 3: a flavor, and we crave the flavor, and we're addicted

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Speaker 3: to that flavor. And that's why you know, you won't

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Speaker 3: find myself like feeding my kid's goldfish, because that's exactly

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Speaker 3: what the food industry wants you to do. They want

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Speaker 3: that kid to feel like they have to eat the

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Speaker 3: same thing all the time and have the exact same flavor,

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Speaker 3: whereas if I were to give my kid blueberries every

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Speaker 3: day for snack instead, sometimes they're mealy, sometimes they're sour,

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Speaker 3: sometimes they're plump, sometimes they're juicy, sometimes they're sweet, blueberries bery.

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Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of nature is all of those

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Speaker 3: sensations that we get in our mouth when we eat

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Speaker 3: some from nature, our body responds to it. And so

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Speaker 3: not only do our kids not become picky anymore because

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Speaker 3: they can handle a lot of different varieties of food,

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Speaker 3: but they are essentially, of course more healthier because of

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Speaker 3: the nutrition that you would find in a blueberry versus

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Speaker 3: a bag dead goldfish.

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Speaker 1: That's so funny. My mom is the worst about eating

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Speaker 1: fruit and healthy food. And she used to say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't like fruit because it can trick you. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's really good and sometimes it's not. Like I love

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Speaker 1: your take, And I'm totally using that with her. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be like, you do not have a sophisticated palette.

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Speaker 1: You should be enjoying all the different levels of fruit.

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Speaker 1: Because she says that to my kids, I'm like, you're

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Speaker 1: not hello, grandma, you're not helping stop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, grandmas are going to be grandma's.

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Speaker 1: Right, exactly exactly. But you did have some success with

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Speaker 1: companies like Chipotle they changed their menu correct, So there

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Speaker 1: is hope for this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is, There is definitely hope.

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Speaker 3: I mean, again, I think consumer pressure, you know, choosing

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Speaker 3: a different brand other than Kellogg's when you're going out

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Speaker 3: there to buy cereal. I mean, obviously don't choose it

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Speaker 3: because of all of the chemicals in it. But you know,

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Speaker 3: there's so many other great cereal brands out there. Now,

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Speaker 3: there's Eat Lovebird, There's Seven Sundays, There's I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: think there's another one. You know, you could just again,

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Speaker 3: my kids have never had cereal. We've always just been

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Speaker 3: a granola family or an oatmeal family. You know, you

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Speaker 3: don't have to eat cereal, your kids don't have to

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Speaker 3: have that. And the most important part to recognize in

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Speaker 3: all of this is as a parent, you are in

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Speaker 3: charge of what comes into the house for many, many

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Speaker 3: years of your kids' lives. You know, at least fifteen

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Speaker 3: I would imagine until they can go drive on their

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Speaker 3: own right, And so for.

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Speaker 2: Those fifteen years, make your pantry pristine. Get the shit

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Speaker 2: out of there.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I mean even gosh, the teenage girls

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Speaker 1: are obsessed with the coffee shops and these crazy drinks,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, we watched a video the other day

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Speaker 1: of how much sugar and fake syrups and all these

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Speaker 1: things are there, and I'm like, you, guys, this is

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Speaker 1: why you have to get over wanting to go get

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Speaker 1: these things that are frozen and whipped up and they're

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Speaker 1: filled with calories and chemicals and like if it tastes

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Speaker 1: like this, but there's nothing that is come from a strawberry,

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Speaker 1: and there's probably it's probably not good for you. But

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Speaker 1: it's really hard. There's so much marketed to our kids,

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Speaker 1: and now I think more so than when we were little,

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Speaker 1: because you know, we had commercials, but they're on Pinterest,

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Speaker 1: they're on Instagram. It's constantly this is the latest here,

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Speaker 1: this is the latest at this shop, and it's all

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Speaker 1: fast food and coffee shops and all these things. It

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Speaker 1: is a lot of pressure. So you're right up until fifteen,

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Speaker 1: but I think you can still be educating your kids.

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Speaker 1: And we need to educate ourselves before we can educate

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Speaker 1: our kids. So you have books that we can educate ourselves.

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Speaker 1: So where can people find the book. How can people

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Speaker 1: follow you, how can they sign the petition? Because that,

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Speaker 1: to me is the most important thing, is that we

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Speaker 1: have enough people to say we're done.

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Speaker 2: Everything can be found on foodbabe dot com. Just go

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Speaker 2: straight there.

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Speaker 3: The petitions there, the books are there, Everything is there,

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Speaker 3: all the links. Sign the petition if you want your

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Speaker 3: name included when I deliver those on Tuesday. And if

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Speaker 3: you live in Michigan, come out and be with us.

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Speaker 3: Bring your family, bring your friends, bring your children, show

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Speaker 3: them what it's like to hold companies accountable for their

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Speaker 3: lives and for better ingredients, because this is really how

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Speaker 3: we're going to change the food system.

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Speaker 1: Do you think, just ask you one more thing, do

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Speaker 1: you think that there is a future in the United

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Speaker 1: States where it is illegal to put poison in food?

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Speaker 2: I would hope. I would hope.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's a conversation to have with your

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Speaker 1: elected official as well. I really think people should start

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Speaker 1: calling their congressmen and saying, I want you to do

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Speaker 1: something about this. I want you to get on the

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Speaker 1: side of health. I mean that how can you argue

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Speaker 1: with being on the side of health? And I think

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Speaker 1: that as we've learned this and again I thank you

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Speaker 1: for everything you've done, because, honestly, it was so overwhelming

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Speaker 1: when I first started to research what you were doing

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Speaker 1: and I found you, and I'm like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing to ourselves? And I think there

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Speaker 1: was a part of me that pushed it away because

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know how to fix this. But

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Speaker 1: you never pushed it away. And I'm so grateful that

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Speaker 1: you have kept fighting and that you've made these changes,

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Speaker 1: And that, to me is what people really need to understand,

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Speaker 1: that you, as want a single person can do this

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Speaker 1: and make huge changes. So I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so amazed at what you've done. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: like what I will say, finding you all those years ago,

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Speaker 1: I was like, this woman, there's something special and absolutely

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Speaker 1: you're amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. That really means a lot. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, So all of you out there follow Vonnie Hare.

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Speaker 1: She does wonderful work. It's a food babe, make sure

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Speaker 1: you check it out. But also for all of you

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Speaker 1: folks in Michigan, give us the time. What time should

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Speaker 1: they be there?

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Speaker 3: Tenth Yeah, We're going to be made in Battle Creek,

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Speaker 3: Michigan at ten thirty am.

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Speaker 2: At Friendship Park.

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Speaker 1: All right, so all of us Michiganders, we need to

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Speaker 1: get there if you can, take your kids. Take your kids,

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Speaker 1: because there's nothing more important to your future. As someone

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Speaker 1: who has lost a grandmother and a father too early

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Speaker 1: and also almost lost my own life too early, I

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Speaker 1: believe this is all connected. You don't want to go

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Speaker 1: through that yourselves, so please check it out. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, Bonnie, thanks for being here, Thank you, and

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Speaker 1: thank you all for joining us on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.

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Speaker 1: blessed day,