{"id":215,"date":"2025-04-05T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moderncryptotrader.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/food-babe-vani-hari-dont-boo-the-maha-movement-our-health-and-safety-are-bigger-than-bureaucrats-egos\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:06:32","slug":"food-babe-vani-hari-dont-boo-the-maha-movement-our-health-and-safety-are-bigger-than-bureaucrats-egos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moderncryptotrader.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/food-babe-vani-hari-dont-boo-the-maha-movement-our-health-and-safety-are-bigger-than-bureaucrats-egos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018FOOD BABE\u2019 VANI HARI: Don\u2019t boo the MAHA movement. Our health and safety are bigger than bureaucrats\u2019 egos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I couldn\u2019t believe my ears when I heard my friend and colleague Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed and an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, being booed, laughed at and shouted down at the Politico Health Care Summit this week. <\/p>\n

Apparently, that room full of health care lobbyists and partisan critics didn\u2019t want to hear the truth: American health policy in its current form is an absolute and utter failure. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest health bureaucracy in the world, needs an overhaul and it needs to happen fast. <\/p>\n

The backlash Calley encountered Wednesday came just 24 hours after HHS began laying off 10,000 federal employees \u2014 including entrenched officials from agencies like the FDA, NIH, and CMS, who have presided over a stunning collapse in American health. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Shortly after Secretary Kennedy\u2019s announcement of the restructuring, the former FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf went on his LinkedIn page and stated ‘The FDA as we’ve known it is finished.’ <\/p>\n

Thank goodness it\u2019s finished. <\/p>\n

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Decades of ineffectiveness have allowed our food and chemical corporations to inundate our food system with novel chemicals without third-party oversight or necessary safety studies.  <\/p>\n

Decades of outdated regulatory actions have let American companies poison us with ingredients they don\u2019t use in other countries — like artificial food dyes that are linked to hyperactivity in children and cancer in animal studies. <\/p>\n

Decades of poor nutritional standards have allowed infant formulas with the first ingredient — ‘corn syrup solids’ — a form of added refined sugar — to be given to newborn babies.<\/p>\n

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If our health authorities worked, we wouldn\u2019t be the sickest developed country on Earth. We wouldn\u2019t have exploding rates of obesity, infertility, and depression. The facts speak louder than the boos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We need a total overhaul in how our regulatory bodies operate. We need to replace old thinking. We need new personnel who aren’t riddled with conflicts of interest. We need gold-star science that will get to the root cause of why we are in this predicament and how to solve it. <\/p>\n

Our government has miserably failed to protect human health and there are countless examples of that — but now with President Donald Trump and Secretary Kennedy\u2019s bold vision to reverse chronic disease, we have a turning point in history that we\u2019ve never had before.  <\/p>\n

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What Calley said at the summit wasn\u2019t complicated: the people who helped create this crisis shouldn\u2019t be the ones running the response. And yet, when he pointed out that America has ‘the sickest children in the developed world’ \u2014 and that laughing off reform in the face of that reality is disgraceful \u2014 the room turned hostile. <\/p>\n

He argued that Secretary Kennedy is doing exactly what voters \u2014 particularly MAHA moms like me \u2014 asked for: removing entrenched bureaucrats who labeled independent experts as quacks, punished dissent, and brushed aside soaring chronic disease rates– ignoring the fact that food is medicine. To do otherwise, as Calley put it, is ‘to tell the MAHA moms that their votes and voices are not legitimate.’ <\/p>\n

People voted for change. Not for minor tweaks \u2014 for structural disruption. And that\u2019s why the MAHA moms are done being laughed at. I understand the outrage. But I also understand what\u2019s at stake. <\/p>\n

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If our health authorities worked, we wouldn\u2019t be the sickest developed country on Earth. We wouldn\u2019t have exploding rates of obesity, infertility, and depression. The facts speak louder than the boos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s be clear: this isn\u2019t the first time reform has made the elite uncomfortable. Calley is a warrior like I’ve never seen before. He is doing what real reformers always do \u2014 facing down institutions that protect themselves at all costs. And he has an army of MAHA moms behind him. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m one of them. As a longtime food activist and founder of the Food Babe movement, I\u2019ve spent over a decade challenging the very same health establishment now being reformed. I\u2019ve spoken directly with the MAHA moms in and and outside the White House driving this effort \u2014 women who\u2019ve watched their kids suffer from chronic illness, only to be gaslit by the very agencies meant to protect them. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

These aren\u2019t fringe voices. They\u2019re citizens demanding accountability, transparency, and a return to common sense in public health. I\u2019m proud to stand with them. <\/p>\n

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I’ve traveled all over the country with Calley, in a grassroots effort to fix what the food industry has done to us — testifying in various states that are looking to reform antiquated policies that allow harmful chemicals in our food and keep Americans sick. <\/p>\n

This moment isn\u2019t about optics. It\u2019s about outcomes \u2014 whether American children are healthier in five years. Whether families feel seen and served by public health institutions. Whether the government finally begins to prioritize prevention over pharmaceutical profits. <\/p>\n

Calley should not apologize for prioritizing America’s health over bureaucratic egos. He shouldn\u2019t back down because insiders are uncomfortable. He is part of a team building a leaner, more transparent and reputable HHS. And if telling that truth gets him booed again, I have a feeling he\u2019ll take the mic every time. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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