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Alex Clark at the Sen. Johnson Roundtable on Health and Nutrition - Sept. 23, 2024
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So there's a certain crop called BT corn, and it has a BT gene in there that is known.
The mechanism is that when the insects eat this corn, it makes their stomachs explode.
And what I think is really interesting about this is that what it's doing is it's creating holes in the stomach lining of the bugs.
And something that Americans are dealing with right now at really high rates is something called leaky gut syndrome, and that means that we're getting holes in the lining of our intestines.
And what I find very strange is why did we think that this would affect insects and not affect humans?
That would be the $64,000 question here.
So thank you, Courtney.
But we've saved the best for last.
Our next presenter is Alex Clark.
Ms. Clark is a food activist, advocate for healthier food systems, and the host of Culture Apothecary podcast.
She is committed to educating consumers on the importance of organic farming and the dangers of harmful additives in food products.
Clark's mission is to inspire positive change in both personal health choices and industry standards, driving the movement toward cleaner, more responsible food production.
Thank you, Senator.
My average listener, like me, is a woman in her late 20s and early 30s.
And we demand accountability for how the millennial generation was turned into a science experiment without our informed consent for the sake of enriching big pharma, big ag, and big food.
Millennial women have started to have kids for the first time, and they are disillusioned with how hard it has become to not only get pregnant, but also raise kids who are healthy, happy, and mentally well.
Today, I am proud to represent them.
The poisoning of our food and the environment is the issue for these independent women.
It is devastating us and our children.
My name is Alex Clark and I host Culture Apothecary.
By virtually every measure, millennials are more health-conscious than any generation before us, but at the same time, we are also the sickest.
That is, until our children end up surpassing us.
The next generation of children is predicted to not outlive their parents if we continue on the trajectory that we are currently on.
When in human history has that ever been the case?
We are fatter than any prior generation at this age.
We're having more fertility issues.
New cancer diagnoses in the U.S. are projected to top 2 million for the first time this year.
And these new cases are almost all driven by young people.
This is according to American Cancer Society data.
What happened?
Growing up, millennials were handed health advice that was inaccurate, mistaken, or downright fabricated.
Almost everything that we were taught about food and health was made up.
The only guidance that we received on what to eat came in 1992 via the food pyramid, a completely manipulated work of fake public health crafted by the Department of Agriculture.
The food pyramid told us that all fat was bad, a lie.
It told us to make complex carbs like pasta, bread, and processed breakfast cereal the bedrock of our diet, not because it was healthy, but because it was the most profitable recommendation for big ag and big food.
We became the first generation subjected to sugary, fattening, inflammatory foods deliberately engineered to be as addictive as heroin thanks to the food companies buying the scientists from the cigarette companies for that exact purpose.
In the 80s and 90s, the same era as the food pyramid scam, youth obesity tripled from 5% to 15%.
Today, in 2024, close to half of all American kids are overweight or obese.
Now, why are you surprised?
Ultra-processed foods make up 70% of the calories that kids eat now.
Now, most of us millennial girls got our first period when we were 13 to 15 years old.
Pediatricians wasted no time telling us that there was a magic pill that could solve all of our problems in a 10-minute wellness checkup with no informed consent about the risks or side effects.
What problems were we solving exactly?
A couple pimples.
We were advised to not worry about learning to track our cycle or understand our hormones.
No conversation about how our likelihood to experience anxiety or depression would increase by 80% on the pill.
10 to 15 years went by on the hormonal birth control pill.
We stayed on the pill because no one advised us it was only ever supposed to be taken temporarily.
Then we wanted to have children.
We got off birth control for the first time in our adult lives only to discover that we had major fertility issues that the hormonal birth control hid.
Infertility is going up 1% every year.
Suddenly, starting a family means spending tens of thousands of dollars on IVF and other fertility treatments because even more medical interventions are always the first solution rather than addressing the root causes of the problem.
If the IVF even works, millennial moms are seeing the same drama play out for their own children but on a far greater scale.
They want to raise healthy kids.
They do.
But where can they go for info?
The studies are bought and paid for by the food companies.
They look for unbiased info on the news, but that's funded by Big Pharma.
In 2022, the pharmaceutical industry spent an average of $1 billion per month on advertising in the United States.
What news company is going to risk reporting the truth if it means missing out on advertising dollars like that?
Their pediatrician...
These moms, pediatrician, had less than a day of nutrition training in all their years of medical school.
They don't even know what seed oils are when they ask about them.
If one of my listeners has a child today, there is a 1 in 50 chance that child will have a deadly peanut allergy, four times what it was just a few decades ago.
And that rate is rising.
Children today are about 20% more likely to develop type 1 diabetes than they were 20 years ago.
Childhood cancer rates are rising a percentage point every year.
Asthma is up, so is ADHD, allergies, virtually every type of psychological disorder.
In 1980, autism was diagnosed at a rate of just 3 or 4 per 100,000 kids.
Today, a newborn child has a 1 in 36 chance that he or she will be autistic.
And that rate is also rising every year.
Who cares about politics if the next generation is dead or close to it before they can even vote?
In 1985, newborn millennials had to follow a schedule of just a handful of vaccines.
Today, a child following the recommended vaccine schedule will receive up to 70 shots by the time they turn 18, including 27 before he or she turns 2, and as many as 6 shots in a single visit.
Are all these shots producing healthier kids?
According to the data, no.
Are we allowed to even ask?
Also, no.
Some parents who've asked too many questions about the recommended vaccine schedule can find themselves reported to Child Protection Services.
Or they will get kicked out of their pediatrician's office for not being compliant.
This is America, the land of the free.
Parents are being held hostage.
They did not sign up to co-parent with the government.
We want a divorce.
But there's more.
Remember when I said that my generation had our first period at 13 or 15?
Today, little girls are starting their periods at 8 or 9, and they are getting pubic hair as young as 5 or 6. Is it their drinking water, their food, chemicals, and personal care products that other countries have banned?
Don't ask, don't tell.
Girls are still being pressured to get on birth control, by the way, without informed consent, but now they get the added bonus of an antidepressant to go with it.
Two for one special.
Just to reiterate the war on moms in this country, today, virtually everything a child eats or drinks will be served on a plastic plate, in a plastic bottle, or be eaten from a plastic container with plastic utensils.
Human breast milk now contains...
This is what the American mom deals with every day!
Amen.
The typical American parent today has to worry about a job, about their children's education, about all the things that a parent has always had to worry about.
What?
They shouldn't also have to deal with the added stress of finding the poison that lurks in almost everything their child eats or drinks.
The American dream is that a parent will be able to raise children who are better off than themselves.
But now that dream is vanishing, not just on an economic level, but a biological one.
Unless we break this spiral, we will fall into a death spiral of unhealthy parents raising even more unhealthy kids that will bankrupt this country.
As RFK Jr. has said, the last thing standing between a child and an industry full of corruption is a mom.
Let's make it easier for them. - Okay, so we have so we have the room for another half hour.
All the presenters have made their statements.
We've asked some questions.
Generally in hearings, I've generally let panelists, if you've got one more point you need to make, if you have that, do this, okay?
I'm not sure we'll have time to take any questions from the audience.
We may be able to do that, but I know Bobby Kennedy's got to leave.
Did you want to say anything, or did you want to have Callie make a close comment?
You know, first of all, I want to thank you again, Senator Johnson, and Senator, thank you for coming, and all the other political leaders I've seen come in and out.
I'm very grateful to them for finally paying attention to this issue.
I spent kind of 40 years in this space, and for most of that time, the Democratic Party was the party that was fighting this issue.
And today it's been a complete inversion.
It's now the Republican Party generally.
But I would say the appeal that I would make to Americans is that there is no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children.
And over the 20,000 generations of human beings that have lived on this planet before us, the primary biological drive generations of human beings that have lived on this planet before us, the primary biological drive and spiritual drive has been to make
And it's extraordinary today that these profit-making corporations have used their capacity to control our government and to control the media.
To turn us all against that most fundamental biological drive.
We are destroying our kids, and we're doing it because we're being manipulated to do it through all of the institutions of government.
And as an environmental activist and attorney, it was obvious to me very early on, and whenever you see the commoditization of the environment of human beings, There is always a subversion of democracy that is coterminous, and that's what we've seen.
We've seen all of these institutions, the media, the health agencies, the agricultural agencies, the American press, the medical system, twisted to turn against their fundamental mission.
And our country is supposed to be the exemplary nation in the world.
In 1776, we became, between then and 1792, we became the first democracy in modern history.
By 1860, there were five democracies that were all based on the American model.
By the time my uncle was president, 130. By the end of the 1960s, 190, and all of them were looking to us as a model.
And we have now become the worst country in the world from the key metric by which every success of a nation can be measured, which is, are we giving our children a chance to live better lives than we do?
You know, our country, to me, is still the greatest country in the world, and we have an extraordinary resilience.
We have the worst agricultural practices in the world.
We have the best regenerative farmers, the best organic farmers, the best dryland agriculture, no-till agriculture.
We're at the cutting edge of all of those things, so we have that entrepreneurial spirit.
That is still alive in our country.
We have the worst healthcare system and the worst health outcomes in the world.
We have the best functional medicine doctors, the best integrative medicine doctors.
All the cutting-edge work on those issues is being done in this country.
We have some of the worst business practices in a declining economy.
We have the best entrepreneurs in this country, of any country in the world.
So we have this inherent resilience in our country.
And if we can, as somebody mentioned, I said, we need to stop hating each other.
And that's only going to happen when we start loving our children more than we hate each other.
And when that happens, we're going to be able to recover, and very, very quickly.
And so I'm optimistic about it, despite...
This dark cloud that has been portrayed here tonight.
You know, we could, over the next two decades, encounter terrible crises in this country.
We could experience economic collapses from manufacturers.
We could have other pandemics, other wars.
And it could really devastate our country, as long as we have that resilience.
We're always going to bounce back as Americans.
We're not going to do that if our kids all have chronic disease.
It's too much of an anchor on progress.
If you have a child that's dependent on pharmaceutical medications for the rest of their lives, and is weakened, demoralized, dispirited, disheartened by these illnesses, it's going to inhibit our capacity to...
To function in any meaningful way in the world.
If a foreign nation did this to our country, we would consider an act of war.
It is un-American.
These companies have been allowed, through the profit motive, to destroy everything that we value in America.
And this is not just economic warfare.
It's not just chemical warfare.
We're all involved in spiritual warfare.
And we have to understand that.
The core of people who are here today, the leaders who have convened this, the leaders from all of these different groups, from the medical profession, from healthy foods, all of these advocates and the political leaders.
Have all given us a reason for hope, and they're leading a battle for the heart, for the soul of our country, and it's a spiritual battle, and that's something we all need to understand.
The American Revolution started with a very, very small core of activists who were able to articulate these new set of values, and they did something that nobody in the world could believe.
A ragtag group of people brought to its knees the greatest empire in the history of mankind.
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