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March 20, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
12:28
Clean food victory as Panera removes chemical additives from its soup
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On the clean food front, we have yet another victory story.
Things are really accelerating in clean food.
Isn't it awesome?
You know, we're part of it.
You and me, we're doing this together.
We're having all of these victories.
And it's because of citizen science and it's because of social media sharing the truth about what's in foods.
You know, this is great activism, and it's very effective.
It's really working.
Panera bread, or just called Panera, where I've never eaten, by the way.
I'm not even familiar with what they serve, but apparently they serve soup, and they've announced that they've just removed all the artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives from their soups.
So apparently they serve bread, too, because they're called Panera Bread.
You probably know who this is.
I don't.
I don't eat out a lot.
But they say that they're moving towards more natural ingredients and that they're no longer in all of their soups, by the way, and they serve 200 million servings of soup a year.
200 million soup servings.
That's a lot of soup.
Like a soup kitchen.
They no longer contain soy protein, corn protein, maltodextrin, and sodium phosphate.
There must be other things they don't contain as well because they're eliminating artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.
The company is saying it's the first national restaurant to offer, quote, clean soups.
And it's just the latest in a long line of announcements from different companies that are cleaning up their menus and removing toxic chemicals.
And I've got to mention, Campbell's.
Campbell's makes soup, right?
That's what they're famous for.
They just announced they're going to label all the GMOs.
They also announced they're eliminating chemical additives from their soups, I think, by 2018.
So they're transitioning out of all those chemicals.
And they're supporting national mandatory GMO labeling of all foods sold in America.
This is what Campbell's is doing now, and they're coming out in favor of food transparency.
Well, Panera, I remember a few months ago, Panera announced they were also eliminating other artificial chemicals and additives from their menu.
And then, of course, we have Chipotle, even though it's been dogged by the E. coli outbreaks, which I think, my theory has, from day one, been that this is deliberate corporate sabotage.
But nevertheless, whether you believe that or not, they announced a GMO-free menu, which is why they were targeted with corporate sabotage, by the way, in my opinion.
In any case, Chipotle has been really moving towards clean food, honest sourcing of food.
And they say that they've eliminated all GMOs from their menu.
This trend is undeniable.
Which company was it that stopped using aspartame?
Was it Pepsi?
I think it was Pepsi.
I can't keep track of it all.
It's so much now.
There's a tidal wave of companies cleaning up their food, removing the synthetic chemicals.
And you know, it's interesting because...
For years and years, all of these companies were just in a state of total denial.
They said, no, there's no problem.
You can eat all these chemical additives.
You can eat all these artificial colors.
Yeah, you can eat the MSG and the trans fats, the hydrolyzed proteins.
Sure, no problem.
They're the partially hydrogenated, genetically modified soybean oil and rapeseed canola oil.
Yeah, it's all good for you.
Just eat it up.
This is what they said, you know, across the food industry year after year until just the last few years, suddenly things are changing.
We've got all these organic companies coming out, like just amazing, awesome companies.
Some of my favorites are Nature's Path Cereals, which are all organic and non-GMO. One Degree Foods has come out.
I don't know all the brands, because again, I don't really buy a lot of packaged food, so I'm not into that so much, but there's a lot of brands that are all organic now.
Sometimes I go to the grocery store, and I just flip out, because 10 years ago, this would have been a dream.
To have so much organic stuff in the store.
Hey, here in Texas, the HEB grocery chain, they've been reworking their stores and they've opened up an entire natural health aisle.
It's all organic and natural or health food oriented type of products.
An entire aisle dedicated to that.
And they have a whole section that's gluten free.
As well.
It's just incredible.
The demand is through the roof.
Sales of organic foods are just skyrocketing.
The demand for organic grains is so high that farmers in the United States can't even keep up with the demand from the food manufacturers.
Every farmer can sell every last grain of organic wheat or organic corn that they can possibly grow in America, and they can sell it at a premium price because demand is through the roof.
These companies like Nature's Path bought up a farm because they couldn't get enough supply.
They bought a farm.
They're in the farming business so they can make the wheat and the corn to make their cereals because they just couldn't find enough supply.
They literally bought farms to grow their own food.
That's how high the demand is for organic, non-GMO food.
And companies are importing these grains from Europe and they're signing long-term contracts to buy five years ahead grain production from organic farmers.
I tell you, the amazing success story in agriculture today is organic farming.
If you can grow organic, you're going to get a premium price as a farmer.
And so when you've got companies like Panera that's removing all these synthetic chemicals, and eventually they'll probably also move towards removing GMOs, I would imagine.
That's the direction they're going.
Then you're just going to have more and more demand for organic, non-GMO food.
And, you know, when these artificial colors and flavors go away, they replace them with things that are more natural.
For example, a meat preservative that maybe in the past you used a lot of sodium nitrite, for example, or, I don't know, sodium phosphate or what have you.
You can use a rosemary herb extract.
It's a meat preservative.
It works better than the chemicals.
So you're actually creating more demand for these honest products, these naturally derived, many times herbal products like rosemary oil, that are used instead of the synthetic chemicals.
Like Annato, for example, is a color replacement for FD&C Red Number 40.
Yeah, I think it's red number 40.
They use annatto.
They use paprika as a coloring agent.
There are natural colors that you can use.
The only color that's really hard from the natural world is blue, but usually natural food isn't blue.
Like, maybe you're drinking Gatorade that's blue, which is the same color as Windex, window cleaner.
If you're drinking Gatorade and you think it's an exercise recovery drink...
You've got to have your head examined, probably.
It's so artificial.
It's such a joke, really.
You have to have an IQ below probably 70 to even think that Gatorade is a sports drink.
Give me a break.
It's like tap water with salt in it and artificial colors.
What a joke, right?
But to people who are informed, and that's more and more people...
They recognize that, hey, Panera is cleaning up their soups.
I'm going to go eat at Panera.
That's what they're saying to themselves.
Look at that.
No more artificial colors and preservatives.
Let's go have some soup at Panera.
Or let's go have a burrito at Chipotle.
Or let's go have, I don't know, who else is out there that's got clean food?
Let's go eat at some local organic cafe, you know, that's just serving all organic food.
This is what people are deciding more and more, and that's why, you know, McDonald's is losing market share like crazy!
It's just plummeting!
You know, who eats at McDonald's anymore?
You have to be a complete nutritional I don't want to be too insulting, but you have to be totally nutritionally ignorant to eat anything at McDonald's and think it's food.
It's not even food.
The chicken McNuggets only have three shapes.
It's all the same three shapes over and over again.
You think that's real chicken meat?
And nothing but chicken meat?
No, it's chicken meat with other parts, and they're all pressed into the same shapes.
It's not real food.
It's processed.
It's processed cookie cutter, you know, chemical food.
I mean, who eats there anymore?
When consumers have a choice, they're going to choose healthier food.
They're going to choose more transparent food.
This is the trend that we're all now surfing, like riding a big wave.
It's the clean food trend.
And I like to say, because I run a food science laboratory, I like to say, no more food secrets.
Because I'm actually spearheading citizen science into food analysis.
I've been running a heavy metals analysis lab for two years.
You can see the results at labs.naturalnews.com.
And now this year in 2016, we've expanded with a new organic chemistry section with a liquid chromatography mass spec instrument, LC-MS. We're going to be looking at organic molecules.
And compounds, all kinds of interesting things that are in your food, pesticides and herbicides, just to start.
And this is all part of the democratization of science.
This is putting science into the hands of citizens who can share their results on social media and educate others about what they're eating and what they're feeding their children.
And because of this, food transparency is a huge issue now.
Look, the mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on Over information that you're allowed to see.
They used to back in the 1980s and the early 1990s.
Today, no more.
We bypass the mainstream media.
We have our own lab.
We go buy food.
We could go buy Panera soup.
And we can throw it into our lab and analyze it.
And we can publish the results.
We don't need the approval of Panera or the mainstream media or the government or the FDA or anybody.
We can prove to you that Panera isn't using artificial preservatives.
Maybe we will.
That'd be a fun project, actually.
I'd have to figure out where is Panera.
I have no idea.
But if I find one, maybe I'll buy some soup.
And we'll see.
We'll confirm that it's free of those toxic ingredients.
That'd be cool, wouldn't it?
You know, citizen science.
Independent, authentic science conducted by a non-government, non-corporate, independent food activism organization like us sharing the results with you freely and openly.
That's awesome.
That's what we're all about.
That's what I say.
No more food secrets, man.
You have a right to know what you're eating, and we're going to find out what's in it, and we're going to share it with you.
So just keep reading naturalnews.com throughout 2016.
And check out my labs website, labs.naturalnews.com.
If you want to look at the science behind this, by the way, check out our science subdomain.
It's just science.naturalnews.com.
Type it into any browser.
And listen to my podcast at healthrangerreport.com or talknetwork.com.
It's going to be awesome.
It's going to be an awesome year.
And by the way, kudos to Panera for cleaning up their soups.
That's awesome.
Let's keep it going.
Let's have some more success stories.
Thanks for listening.
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