Feeding You Lies Quotes

“We’ve been processing food since the dawn of time, initially for good reasons. Cooking, fermenting, canning, freezing, and other preservation methods are forms of processing, and they have generally created safer foods. In recent decades, however, Big Food has taken processing to an entirely new level, creating franken “foods” that are bad for us but good for their bottom line.”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“Center for Food Integrity (CFI). Its members include trade groups like the National Restaurant Association, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Dairy Farmers of America, and companies like Monsanto and Hershey’s,19 with a primary mission to downplay any public concerns about chemical food additives.”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“These multinational companies are really good at selling us fake food, produced in giant factories from a long list of already highly processed ingredients. They sell us these products because they are highly profitable, even if it means we’re consuming dangerous chemicals, additives, and toxic ingredients. And it gets worse than that. It’s intentional. Food companies have big R&D departments for this very reason—to make their food addictive.5 If it wasn’t, they’d have a much harder time staying in business.”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“When you walk around a supermarket these days, it’s clear that the major trends are toward food that is organic, natural, and healthy. These trends aren’t an accident. They exist because we’ve taught people about the dangers of food that’s loaded up with dyes, weed killer, fake sugars, artificial flavors, and countless other additives that have no business being in our kitchen.”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“Coke and broccoli trigger very different biochemical responses in the body—different hormones, neurotransmitters and immune messengers. The Coke will spike blood sugar and insulin and disrupt neurotransmitters, leading to increased hunger and fat storage, while the thousand calories of broccoli will balance blood sugar and make you feel full, cut your appetite and increase fat burning. Same calories—profoundly different effects on your body.”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“There are three types of added sugar in Nabisco’s 100% Whole Grain Wheat Triple Berry Newtons: regular sugar, corn syrup, and invert sugar. All of which are refined sugars—and scarily associated with obesity, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and liver damage”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“Then there’s the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), a front group partnered with biotech and chemical giants like Bayer and Monsanto, along with Elanco (makers of conventional animal feed) and Merck Animal Health (makers of animal antibiotics and vaccines). 21 USFRA spends millions every year promoting the use of routine antibiotics in farm animals, GMOs, and the safety of synthetic pesticides and conventional agriculture.”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“canola oil, a heavily refined oil that goes through an insane amount of processing with chemical solvents (like hexane, a neurotoxin2), steamers, neutralizers, de-waxers, bleach, and deodorizers.”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

“Subway restaurants agreed to remove the “yoga mat chemical” from their bread following a petition I started.1 Kraft decided to remove artificial food dyes from their kids’ mac and cheese products after I stormed their headquarters with over 200,000 petitions.2 Chick-fil-A’s chicken went antibiotic free following my meetings with them urging them to do so.3 Anheuser-Busch and Miller-Coors both agreed to publish their ingredients for the first time in history following another of my petitions.4 I was finishing up my first book, exposing the chemicals in our food, and it was slated to be out in a few short months. I had just published an investigation into Starbucks’ famous Pumpkin Spice Latte,5 calling them out for their use of “class IV” caramel coloring (a chemical linked to cancer).6 This piece went viral, with millions of views and shares (which ultimately led to Starbucks dropping this coloring from their drinks).”
― Vani Hari, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health