10/14/24: 📣 Dye-ing Young: historic rally for safe food

Happy Monday my friend,

🌊 A TIDE IS TURNING

Recently I shared THIS 4-hour historic testimony featuring doctors and health experts as they spoke before the US Senate outlining our undeniably rising epidemic of chronic disease, and how Big Food has infiltrated regulatory agencies, creating a system that often turns a blind eye to dangerous and unnecessary ultra-processed food ingredients.

An authentic conversation about food’s role in disease has never reached this level of US government acknowledgment in my lifetime.

Humanity’s collective health collapse is a global issue, but many ingredients still sold in the US are banned in other parts of the world due to their association to mental/physical illness, including cancers.

Among these risky unregulated additives are artificial food dyes and a preservative known as BHT (Butylated hydroxytoluene). Both of which are absent from foreign versions of products like children’s cereal, but intentionally left in US versions of those same products.

📣 HISTORY IN THE MAKING 📣

Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 15th I am honored to be speaking at a rally outside Kellogg’s HQ in Battle Creek, Michigan accompanied by my colleagues Vani Hari, Dr. Joel Gator Warsh, Dr. Josh Axe, and many more.

We’ll be dropping off a petition of over 225k signatures (😲!) asking Kellogg’s to remove these harmful dyes and BHT preservatives from their cereals!

These compounds are endocrine disrupting, and linked to ADHD, genetic damage, and tumors.

JOIN ME IN PERSON!

If you or anyone you know lives in Michigan or nearby, ask them to come. Children, families, all are welcome! Over 1k people are already scheduled to attend, and the larger the turnout, the larger the message we send.

If you can make it, RSVP here to receive last minute event updates before tomorrow.

ADD YOUR SUPPORT

I know not every Earth Conscious Life reader is near Michigan (or even in the US), but everyone can SIGN THIS PETITION TODAY.

**IT MUST BE TODAY TO COUNT – the earlier the better – because we’re printing the several hundred thousand signatures to bring in-person to drop off on Kellogg’s doorstep.

MONDAY MOTIVATION

Every week on Mondays I offer my “Monday Motivation” newsletter including a category titled “Be The Change” which focuses on an inspiring person or organization.

This week that hero is Vani Hari, Food Babe, who has made history time and time again, affecting real measurable change from mega-companies like Starbucks, Kraft, Subway, Chipotle and others by using her influence and ‘Food Babe Army’ to pressure these businesses to do the right thing and stop taking advantage of loopholes and ignorant consumers.

There is little I can think of more motivating than seeing an ordinary mom like Vani start an entire movement for healthier, safer food choices for all.

The wave of awareness and support that Vani Hari has ignited and steered – especially in these past few weeks since her Senate testimony videos went viral on social media – is remarkable. This message is finally evading the normal politically divisive propaganda…and bringing people together to remember that WE have the power to demand a healthier future for our children.

To a healing future,

— Rob

P.S. Learn more about Vani’s work as the Food Babe, and sign the petition to be a direct part of history HERE.