Thank you so much for all the views and interaction on this video! I did not expect it to reach so many folks. I apologize in advance that I am going to be very slow to read and moderate all the comments. My channel is suddenly getting a LOT more traction and I have had more than 5k comments in under 4 days and it's just me moderating. I know I usually read ALL comment and do my best to interact and reply, but I know in advance that's not going to happen this time. Thank you again for folks sharing your insight on this topic. I appreciate all of you, even if I'm utterly failing at getting to all of the comments.
I recall when Michelle Obama was First Lady, and she was encouraging healthier eating, people went berzerk crying, “She’s going to take away our tater tots, Mountain Dew, burgers, and potato chips!! She must be stopped!! ” And any time people bring up the issues with our food and water supply, there is the outcry that such concerns is “propaganda”. So I find it peculiar that people are not immediately shutting down RFK Jr. Just proves it’s not the message, it’s the messenger.
Different subgroups. The health food people like rfk jr and tended to be liberals, their racism is subtle and they dont think they are racist. Its a different group saying dont take my burgers and mountain dew. Those are the ones getting diabetes and dying young from heart disease.
I remember seeing a TED Talk from Roger, Kitchen Gardners International? His talk was "my subversive plot". MO dug up part of the White House lawn for veg. The horror lol. I had a sign made up for my veg garden.
Exactly. If you are interested, there’s an author specializing in dealing with friends and loved ones in cult-like dynamics. His name is Steve Hasan. With so many online information silos and funnels, it’s likely to be skills that most people will need.
The problem with any of these M-formulas slogans starts with the first word "MAKE" because no amount of legislation is going to force a change - and it shouldn't. This was a lesson from the Prohibition era. . . but here we are again. People have to choose a life of health and integrity, it can not be forced no matter which politic.
@@creativefilmsmusic This is an excellent point. Removing choice and using force rarely goes well, especially in a country that is supposedly all about freedom.
This is so relatable. As a homebirth, homeschool, semi-crunchy Mama, I almost fell down the pipeline myself...and I've watched so many friends not necessarily go full alt-right but become alt-right apologists over wild "wellness" ideas. So much RFK fangirling. It's actually heartbreaking.
@@catalhuyuk7 like eating only organic, no sugar, no gluten, no processed foods, often vegan, but like... Obsessive with it to a fault, such as feeding a cat a vegan diet (when cats are obligate carnivores)
The point of that, imho, was to humiliate RFK and let him know that Trump is on top in the missionary position. RFK prob is often on top, and has had and prob still has a very active sexual (promiscuous) history. He IS a Kennedy (aka John and Robert...and more ) so, I guess change is possible. :)
Growing our own food, even on the smallest scale, is one of the most subversive acts. Once upon a time, we grew Victory Gardens. It may be time to get community gardens going as a movement. It may help rebuild social cohesion.
Oh good luck with that. You’re not allowed to save seeds anymore. It’s illegal. If you buy different types of soil and soil additives that have any type of manure, they have treated the hay with herbicide so it kills your garden… on purpose. And if you get miracle grow and your plants miracle die just remember it’ll be a miracle if you ever get all of the herbicide out of that soil after 10-15 years. Thankfully, I have chickens so I seeded sunflowers and grass for a whole two years in a rotating constant sprout type situation and pulled most of the herbicide out, but the problem is feeding it to the chickens meant my eggs weren’t organic and I couldn’t sell my eggs to my neighbors because they only wanted organic eggs. It’s not like you’re not already eating it in your beef even the pasture raised beef because they eat hay. What do you think is in the pasture? So you’re already eating Grazon herbicide if you eat beef. At a certain point I just give up because they have robbed me as a single, senior female with disability. They refused to recognize my disability then they forced me with gouging groceries to raise food and then they taint everything I need to raise the food… like the chicken pellets Have made the chickens stop laying and to buy the pellets that are proper nutrition for the chickens is way too expensive. It’s just an endless cycle of attacks from every side to try to stop you from feeding yourself, or even just adding some extra nutrition that you’re not getting from the store. They don’t even want you to help supplement your food that they are ruining in the store. Good luck finding a tomato that actually tastes like a tomato anymore. Same thing with a strawberry. There is no sweet in the strawberries. It’s just a sour dry, crunchy spongy thing. Nothing tastes right. Oh… And when you buy the little plants at the store instead of buying seeds, they have hybridized those so that any seeds that come off of the fruit of any of those plants won’t actually grow anything edible. Even if they sprout, they don’t produce the same fruit or vegetable that you got the seed from and it looks nothing like that. You can get those beef steak tomatoes, and if you plant the seeds from those tomatoes, you get what looks like a little cherry tomatoes, and there’s only like five of them on the entire plant. They also actually treat the plant with chemicals as its sprouting that sterilizes the plant so any seeds that do sprout are weak. And so even if you got a few tomatoes from that beef steak tomato seed on the second season, you definitely are not gonna get anything but diminishing returns if you continue planting those same seeds. You’ll starve to death if you have to rely on those seeds. And now there are some legal attacks on heirloom seeds and you’re not allowed to sell them or give them away to anyone and even selling the fruit off of the plant that has fertile seeds inside of it… like selling a tomato… has been the source of legal troubles for some people. So you can grow the tomatoes yourself & you could use those seeds from those tomatoes to plant new tomatoes in your own garden, but you can’t give a tomato away. You can’t sell a tomato and you definitely cannot give any of the seeds from those tomatoes to anyone else to plant. And they will do some kind of genetic testing on the seeds and the plants to find out if they match the plants in your yard in order to prosecute you. That’s how far they are going to try to stop you from feeding yourself. Monsanto wants to be the only source of food and poison everybody apparently. They definitely want everyone to get dementia. This country has gone absolutely psychopath to its core. And I mean the clinical definition of the word psychopath, not an emotional slur. I mean, everyone seems to be missing their amygdala except for about 10% of us. No one seems to have any type of emotional normal range or ability to feel anything for other people and they think that they are the only real human being on the planet and everyone else is just an android. I feel like I’m in a twilight zone episode that just won’t ever end. But what can you do but keep trying? 🤷🏽
@@user-cz5tp5bp2x Many buy some products in bulk in the harvest season and do canning. Also, there are farmer’s markets where some Amish and Mennonite farmers grow organic greenhouse vegetables. Some grow leafy greens all winter long.
@@user-cz5tp5bp2x Learn to can your vegetables like our ancestors did, to get them through the winter. There are lots of videos on the subject, just mason jars and a pressure cooker. You can preserve so many things this way, even make your own jams and jellies, yum!
it really is subversive. and the big cities have finally caught on to what we're trying to do. here in chicago they've made it nearly impossible to start new community gardens and also to maintain existing gardens without a substantial budget. they've created a new policy whereby you have to jump through hoops and pay a crazy amount of money to access the fire hydrants for water. just a few years ago all we had to do was get a hydrant tool from the local fire department. now we're going to have to get more creative with irrigation and water collecting techniques on a low-to-no budget vibe.
Practically all RFK talks about is giving power back to the ppl with common sense measures. Practically everything is anti-capitalist as well - very in-line with the Michelle Obama thing which was great. You do realize RFK has been fighting against the corruption of both huge corporations and public agencies for ,35 years.. ? Where is the gratitude for that work. It's extremely ironic that this guy who has TRULY worked for the common man - and for the environment, in tangible ways like cleaning up rivers and suing the f out of some of the worst corps - can be so reduced so much. He is anything but anti-vaxx for example - all he says is they should be held to the SAME standard as ALL other meds. How can that possibly be seen as extreme. If his work as environmental lawyer was legit - if ppl agree he applied reason and facts - and he did that shit for 35 YEARS, then why do ppl assume that wouldnt the case here...? Do you guys think the Means-siblings are lying? Just curious.
The day after elections, I decided to go on a 4-year news fast to maintain my sanity, but I had to click on this video because I've never heard the term "MAHA" before. I am totally in sync with everything you said. OK, now I'm back to my news fast.
Good for you. I’m promoting HAHA, since many illnesses seem linked to our gut function. And so many of us needing to heal our mental health, which ties into a better mental “diet”.
Sometimes people go so far left that they come full circle and end up on the right. Mind-boggling. Some of my favorite bloggers and influencers are completely unrecognizable to me now. I had a client the other day tell me how he was excited that RFK was going to get the poison out of the food. I was like, you know that you can avoid that stuff, right? I’ve been avoiding it for decades. Just eat whole foods . Grow a garden. No one is forcing you to drink Pepsi. All of a sudden people who wouldn’t have previously cared about the content of their food think there’s some big conspiracy. How they think brain worm guy is going to fix it is beyond me.
I have lost so many friends. I know I have changed and grown a lot over the years, but I do feel like fundamentally I'm still me. The friends I've lost to QAnon and the alt right and now MAHA...I miss who they were. That person is gone and has been replaced with something twisted and angry and deluded.
I refuse to blame anyone but themselves for the hated, ignorance, or greed that led them to voting for DJT after J6, the felonies, all the sexual assaults, Epstein FFS - my own father included who apparently cares more about helping a conman get richer than his own daughter.
Thank you for this! It's been horrifying and seriously perplexing to watch friends and colleagues in holistic health fields getting red pilled, making the rest of the community look bad and destroying our credibility. 💜
have you even watched THE MATRIX? I bet now the left is all like "oh no, that is an altr right bro movie. never going to watcht that" . Just like they refuse to listen to Joe Rogan either.
I don’t know if this is a conflict or not but, thought I’d put it out there. Food not lawns: how to turn your yard into a garden and your neighborhood into a community Heather Jo Flores
Except they’re making gardens illegal by making seeds illegal, and producing plants that don’t seed and can’t be replanted. Not to mention tainting soil with herbicides so you think you’re buying miracle grow soil and you put it all in your flower bed and nothing will grow and you find out it’s the manure because the cows ate hay that have an herbicide and it lasts for a decade in the soil until enough grasses have grown and been taken away to bring it back out of the soil. My whole front flower bed around my cabin is tainted and it’s been three years and I finally got a very weak tomato to grow but nothing else will grow properly. I keep seeding oats and wheat grass and sunflowers like literally spreading it across the soil in a layer of seeds and letting it sprout and then scraping off the whole top layer of sprouts. And doing it again because it’s faster. I had to throw away everything the first year that I did that and it cost me so much money for all that animal feed to use as sprouts and then throw it all away, actually in the landfill. Then the second year I was getting successful growth to a point so that it was such a small amount of herbicide that I could feed the sprouts to my chickens because we eat the beef that the cattle are eating the hay so I fed the chickens out of desperation. it ruined my organic eggs, but at least it cut my costs down. And after year number three of constant sprouts in this one small flower bed, I finally got one tomato to grow and produce a handful of tomatoes, and I do mean a handful. So I still have a long way to go. And this was with miracle grow soil. So like I’m saying… Good luck trying to garden because all the wealthy corporate people don’t want you to have a garden and they’re trying to ruin as much land as they possibly can and limit our food production to the point where it’s going to be an extinction level event within your lifetime at the rate that they’re going.
I love how many are turning their ornamental gardens into mixed gardens with both vegetables and compatible ornamentals as companion plants. And homeowners innovating with their spaces is fascinating to see. Some urban areas even allowing chickens, without roosters.
As I am quite elderly, I know I won't live to see a better America. It saddens me to know that so many people voted to flush our way of life down the toilet. It's because of lack of education and critical thinking, that we are in this mess. The idea that people think it's bad to be educated is most alarming. The founders of this country were highly educated people. Those who have just won this election are barely educated and yes, we will suffer. Thank you Trump, a third world country here we come.
As an autistic, I was horrified when my own sister CONTINUES to bring of RFK and how he's getting rid of red dye so he can't be THAT bad - I genuinely don't know how to help her pull her head out of her ass...oh that's right, I can't. And THAT is what is the worst part because she's not stupid. She is VERY educated and in upper management for IT security and even she refuses to just do a quick google search about who he REALLY is and what he is actually planning on doing. I just - COME ON PEOPLE!!!
@@Painted_lady It's spread out, usually it's on various podcasts that he has been on. But he thinks that anyone who uses chronic medication should be forced to stop, if they die, they die, and if they don't die but need medication because they for example have ADHD or depression, they should be sent to "wellness farms". Which is just another word for forced labor camps. He also thinks that vaccines cause autism, and that there are zero safe vaccines in existence, so they must all be banned. As relevant to the person you replied to, he has apparently also said some pretty gross things about autistic people. Though people who say that autism is caused by vaccines almost always have those sorts of beliefs.
hey, folks can support RFKjrs work and things and be educated AND not be "stupid"... It is the LEFT that are unable to comprehend this is possible.. cause they have their own massive cognitive dissonance!
thank you for watching and commenting! My kid mentioned the other day that several of my YT subs and a few of my patrons don't have TikTok, so I should compile subjects I talk about over there and share them here. I'm glad she nudged me to do that!
@@ParkrosePermaculture Your kid is correct, not all of us subscribe to TikTok. I'm 55 years old and have no room for TikTok (or Facebook/"Xwitter"/Threads) in my life. Thank you for your insight. I found you through your takes on Trumpers getting black-listed by us who care, but I'm staying for the Permaculture life. 😊
For sure. I hope that too many in America don’t have to suffer before many of that following catch onto the realities that this administration overlooks.
As humans we have been separated from our food sources. People are starting to garden, bake, can and barter with our neighbours again. That’s the movement we need. Support local food markets, craft fairs, etc. share with neighbours and they’ll share back.
@@homerroad There are community gardens in the city. Even motivated lower income people can grow their own vegetables. God knows there are so many empty lots in the hood. In the city of Philadelphia you are allowed to use these lots to garden until someone buys them. Yet even in food deserts, folks lack motivation to grow food, it's so much easier to go to McDonalds.
Thanks so much. I also don't understand how anyone would think that RFK Jr can be that person who will deliver clean healthy food to our neighborhoods. After all, the man has always prided himself on the fact he will eat just about anything. (and he wasn't kidding) I am not one extreme or the other...for me it's simple... grow or purchase food to be prepared with the methods our grandmothers passed down. But, our neighborhoods have become food deserts. The most urgent problem I feel we face is the lack of real grocery stores in too many communities. It worries me that I haven't heard RFK Jr mention it one time.
well did Rachel Levine do that? Nope. so people are like let's try someone new. y'all are acting as if Kamala was gunna go full blown marxists anti capitalist permaculture crazy ahah.
It's ironic how they want to talk about living healthy, yet want to exercise environmental deregulation, which would contribute to toxic air throughout the country and world.
RFKjr was a Democrat.. and went to the Harris campaign to work with them but it is this stupid stubbornesss and rigidity that basically rebuffed him.... over the vaccine issue. You all have been brainwashed by BIg Pharma etc.. the reiteration of "anti vax" labels you all fell for the oldest propaganda rhetoric of appeals to ridicule and ad hominem attacks.. Your utter self rightiousness really is a major turnoff!!.
Thank you for making this point! Buy from local farmers if you can't grow your own. But defunding the FDA and stopping vaccines is not the way forward.
@@Nononsense99 Even without the optimal amount of sun, there may still be things you can grow. Most of my old garden space stays in for much of the day except at the very height of summer and I still managed to get a decent crop this year. If you can grow food for yourself, you can still put in plants and features that support wildlife and pollinators. That helps to offset having to purchase big ag food if that's all you have available.
I have been saying these food culture ideas for decades (waaaay older than this fine lady). I am a retired pharmacist who has always believed that the first medicine we should put in our bodies are foods that we know where they were grown. Either organically by ourselves or local small farmers.
Good people - before January 20, 2025, get your and your children’s vaccines up to date. For the anti-vax people, I highly recommend perusing the communicable diseases that killed thousands of children in the US Census Mortality Schedules per year and Tuberculosis ward Census Reports from pre-vaccine, pre-pasteurized milk days to fully understand why vaccines and pasteurized milk products came to be a “thing”.
@@jennifernordlund2691 Actually, it would because there would always be those few with questionable standards that had contaminated milk. It’s an unfortunate reality of the marketplace. While those promoting and supporting raw milk do tend to have good standards, anyone can break into a market. Personally I’d like to see niche regulations for raw dairy available everywhere, but not large scale. Many areas that have it for the cheese market do an excellent job of maintaining good quality and promote basic health standards.
@@jennifernordlund2691 Can you explain as to how slightly heating milk up suddenly makes it not healthy? I've never heard of food before that is apparently healthy until you heat it up a little bit.
As someone who worked on a small, local, dairy farm, I had to clean the udders before I milked, and they were always covered in poop. Pasteurization is way better than milk with fecal bacteria growing in it.
I have no problem with people eating more healthily and making choices that lead to a healthy lifestyle, but I am old enough to have had a father who had life long health issues because he got polio as a child. I also remember how some of my preschool students were hospitalized due to having chickenpox. There are good reasons why a small group of people can't get vaccines but lots of children and adults used to die before there were vaccines. I for one do not want to go back to that.
"I am old enough to have had a father who had life long health issues because he got polio as a child" Ditto. My dad ended up with a damaged leg, and wearing a brace his entire life.
I think we’re usually talking about Glatt phosphate and Neonicitide, Lowering arsenic. Our foods are less dense, because modern monoculture, large scale, farm agriculture destroys our soil, and after the dust bowl, the government realize they need to protect the topsoil in this country but then over the past 40 years, they’ve chipped away and chipped away at the regulations That protected the ground soil and they’ve also dried up pull out of the ground water. Why do we allow a desert like Arizona to be calmer this ginormous golfing center all that grass is sucking the life out of the state and damaging the Colorado River
Thank you for speaking/informing about this with such a respectful and loving tone. There's a difference between telling someone they've been fooled and telling them they are dumb. I have friends in the USA, very good people, but when it comes to politics or finding actual info and not just very homemade or extremely misinterpreted statistics, they are a disaster. They deserve better.
Thank you for this.. I've unsubbed from some channels because of their support for Trump/RFK Jr even though they (the channels) were promoting good health.. it just boggles my mind how they could think these individuals are going to actually help people be healthier
FDA has been ineffective for a long time. They is why a lot of manufacturers and retailers came together to create SQF (Safe Quality Foods) and BRC (British Retail Consortium Global Standard) to assure customers that they are receiving what the companies claim they are providing. While not perfect they do help operate as a 3rd party check on the worst in manufacturer behavior. So look for a SQF or BRC logo on packaging. As someone who works in food quality, I am pretty concerned for what we are in for.
Meee toooooo! In similar ways . Covid really brought stuff to light for me . Also as someone with an autoimmune disorder who was taking hydroxychloroqine having people people touting it as a covid cure and simultaneously calling it poison for my autoimmune disorder. Wild . Crunchy to alt right pipeline, I didn’t see it coming
@@nom3nnescio so you don’t know how HMO/PPO insurance works… and how do you know a doctor is a bad doctor until you go to them? Did I say I kept going to that doctor? Oh wait, unicorns and crystals? You’re a psychic. You know everything before it happens to you that’s why your life is perfect… That’s why you’re spending your time criticizing a person for irrelevant fictitious problems because you are just so full of free time these days it’s all you have left to do.
As a permaculture person with a Master's in Ecology, so VERY much this. Just because I think glyphosate is poison doesn't mean I want everyone to end up with polio. 🙄
Exactly. Something that the Health Gurus don’t want to talk about. They’ve sold out, unfortunately. Wellness culture relies on science not giving mega corporations more free access to markets. I doubt that RFK jr or Trump know anything about regenerative agriculture or permaculture. Working collectively is what’s needed. Not divisive leaders good at marketing, but poor on delivery to the average consumers.
This is horrifying. I’ve been a natural food person for ages and never heard people were being sucked into the right over this. Goes to show how much work needs to be done on our education system for basic science education. No child left behind was/is a disaster. Republican scheme to gain power at the expense of the well being of the country.
The worst thing about this "MAHA" movement is that RFK Jr. himself is still a very huge drug user. He doesn't even walk the talk. He has these half baked ideas that threaten our already very delicate healthcare standing. How many Americans have to die for folks to be like "Oooooooh, maybe this was a BAD idea?"
I think many of you would be interested in The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone. Although the main thrust of the book is about how many of our current plants were brought here by David Fairchild, there are many examples of how the government has had its sticky fingers in our food supply since the beginning of our nation.
Thank you. I’m a nurse and I quit my job in case management recently. I can’t handle the ignorant comments any more. I got so tired of leading horses to water only to watch them just look at their reflections while they whither away. I’m in the game of go as long as I can without surgeries and medications. Well I thought I saved my best visit for last before leaving my job a week ago. One of the people said to me, don’t worry whatever it is RFK will fix it. Every day my decision was solidified further and I am not sure I can go back. I should mention I live in Nw Colorado where growing is difficult and it’s taken me years to develop my yard and greenhouse to where it is now. So many people I have talked to are just negative Nancys. I keep having to tell them there is a way and you just have to keep at it. Thank you for keeping me sane this morning by the way. Been a long road of prepping and nowhere near where I’d like us to be. Keep on keeping on right 😊
Growing distrust in institutions is understandable. But this distrust is being exploited by post-truth entrepreneurial politicians like Trump, RFK Jr., Vance, etc etc.
It is easier to think there will be one person who can save us when the truth is we will save ourselves through knowledge not only of the food products and the deregulations we can change it if we vote in senators and Congress that actually represent us instead of taking the bribes from Big pharma.
There's a movie called Food and Country that is a documentary that discusses this. It is imperative for people to watch that to understand everything she's saying. Every. Single. Thing. Taken straight from the farmers being screwed by these corporations on purpose to drive them out of business so these corporations win. When they win, all of us little people lose- we lose money by paying more for crap, and we lose our health because we're eating crap food that's genetically modified and grown with chemicals and hormones. The farmers talked about all this. I was nearly in tears when I finished watching it.
Why not try to understand why people might believe or question what they've been told is 'good' for them for decades? So much division in the world. Age-old tactic by those in power: divide and conquer.
I, too, am a Biologist crunchy mom, and, knowing what I know, America never really was healthy like they think it was, so, just like their fantasy that the 50's was the ideal decade is garbage, the idea that there was some idyllic period of perfect health and wellness in the United States at any point in time is also a fantasy. Just like the notion that ancient paleolithic people were the epitome of health, etc. etc. Make America healthy, sure. But, make it healthy again? There's nothing to "get back to." We can only push forward with new discoveries and innovation as we apply newfound knowledge to our daily lives.
The only thing I can think of that made the 50s better is that fat was blamed incorrectly for heart disease in the 50s and the truth didn’t come out mainstream until the 2010s. Only in the last few years have trans fats finally gone but the damage over the last 70 years was done.
@@natehunter2961 I hate to break it to you, but saturated fat does cause heart disease. If it didn't, it wouldn't be the thing scientists use to induce heart disease in animal models. But they do, and it works. Saturated fat also causes Type 2 diabetes. I'll give you one guess as to how they induce that in animal models. The good news is that if you avoid all sources of saturated fat, you can reverse heart disease and type 2 diabetes. This has been peer reviewed and published. It is established science. Source: I'm a Biologist whose colleagues did this in the lab. I'm not going to argue with people in the comments section about it. You can believe what you want to believe, I'm not going to stop you, but if you're interested in the actual science, there it is.
Unless the for-profit medicine bill from 1972 is repealed and we get some sane nutrition standards, nothing is going to change. I agree that we are being deceived by MAHA and the system as a whole. Grow your own food and learn about herbal remedies. Food can be grown in a window seal, on a patio, on the kitchen counter, in a flowerbed, as well as the traditional places.
You can say whatever you want, i remember not being allowed to go to the local park/pool because of polio. My friends were in braces. I am only 70. Think about it. Do a blog on the iron lung.
It's sad that they voted for crazy people instead of voting with their dollars by not getting their food (or at least so much of it) from big corporations who have zero care or accountability. This is why I do my best to get as much of my food as possible from my garden or from farmers that I have actual in person relationships with. I'd even call many of them my friends. They know and care about me as a person, and I them. That kind of connection ensures greater accountability and safety. We absolutely need regulations, but I think we also need closer relationships to where our food comes from, as these are also protective. Eating food that I've grown is such a joy! I feel it nourishes me on so many levels and certainly feels more nutritious than even stuff from the farmer's market. It connects me to the land where I live, the other creatures that live here, the cycles of the seasons and so much more. It makes me feel rich to be surrounded by food that I grew, like the 200+ pounds of winter squash taking up all my shelves. Everyone deserves to experience that and I hope we find our way there. An obstacle I see is that many people seem to think that growing food or even preparing food is somehow "beneath them" or a waste of their time. That they have more important and better things to do. I'm not sure how to work with that one. I'd love to hear your thoughts on shifting that attitude, if that's a video you'd ever be interested in making.
He's not different, in any way. He's a useful tool and the minute he stops submitting to ritual humiliation exercises like being made to pose with a Big Mac and Coca-Cola (which he has called literal poison multiple times), or the minute corporate interests complain about his work, he's going to be fired, probably by a social media post.
He was a useful idiot to drop out of the presidetial race and endorse 🍊🤡. That's why he got his nomination for HHS secretary. He sold his soul. He should know that he would just be window dressing/red meat to the alternative health community of which I'm one too-just not MAGA. The repugs aren't going to let RFK do anything that will drop the botton lines of big ag and pharma, who bought and paid for them. This community is gleeful right now but will soon be disappointed. But hey, thanks for the votes, suckers!
Agree deregulation hurts wellbeing of all. I invest in stocks and in companies that are not environment friendly- I guess very few companies if at all any are “green” - it is not that I do not realize the harm and the correct direction in which things should go. But I have come to realize that it is highly unlikely that corporations, governments or even public in any country will work towards values we all talk about. If you talk about India (born and brought up there) many values are just religious stories, chanting, rituals (with their own high carbon footprint) and all this when surroundings are full of poor homeless people, full of trash and stray animals, pollution. Not just the public but I have seen religious preachers not letting homeless people on road use religious place as shelter. Such is the psychosis of “being holy”. Few other facts - (1) Most of the public is not even ready to talk, forget about forming communities for any good transition. It’s a fact. I agree corporations are at fault first but deliberate public neglect in their own wellbeing is second. (2) The very public that a few great leaders have fought and sacrificed for has conveniently forgotten them, rather years later they are questioned. The sacrificial model that the public is so in love with- “talk good” may be even celebrate a day or two per year as a holiday “in their memory” isn’t going to establish any positive reform. “Dry day” on Gandhi Ji’s birthday is a perfect example. Yes if anyone chooses to self sacrifice they are sure to get their name written somewhere in history text books but values is a different game - another fact. Nonetheless- what make some sense to me is try and establish financial stability via job and investment and finding authentic avenues to support (Peepal Farm, One Tree Planted are few examples) besides keep changing lifestyle choices like growing food at home being one example.
5:21 Nope. In the 9th grade we were reading that waste of ink, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. And to think that this all could have been avoided if we read The Jungle or "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.
I used to teach history to high school (until 2020) and I would have them read excerpts. The kids couldn't grasp the language usage, so I switched to videos. They were grossed out, but in all honesty, I don't think any of it resonated with them as they crunched their way through a bag of Takis and slurped down their Starbucks during classtime
Goodness, someone besides me knows of The Jungle by Upton Sinclare! I was an avid reader and sometime, in 5th grade i think, i hastily reached to the library's shelf while seeking The Jungle Book; it was jarringly different but also riveting as I lear ed history could be interesting and encompassed by fiction. I do l known that i ended up with Rebecca by Dalphine Du Muir that year while seeking Rebecca of Sunybrook Farm to appease an aunt's reading wishes for me. I read the whole book and avoided any discussion of it with that aunt except to say that i had checked out Rebecca (as she called it) and i was enjoying it.
The election neglected the consequences of capitalism and climate change on our society. None of root causes of our societal issues were addressed by the GOP. 😢
I liked your video and what you had to say. I do disagree about something you said though. I didn’t raise bigots. I have a son dating a black woman. He is white. And he voted for Trump. Social media., Fox News and Joe Rogan have a lot to do with it. Sometimes it’s not how you raise them but what they are hearing as they are growing up. My son is 23. And a very good person all around. Ideas were just putting in his head.
Thank you the video. I've been eating whole foods for almost a decade and have been slowly sourcing that food with what I can grow, raise and find locally. The regulations debate troubles me because I think we need guardrails so the major for profit conglomerates don't take shortcuts that damage the health of people that can't grow their own food but how do we also allow a small farmer to sell their extras to neighbors without breaking the law especially when it comes to meat?
While I’m 100% on board with regulations to keep the food chain safe, it’s not the only the way. We need to realize that we hold the cards BECAUSE we don’t have to buy the garbage they sell. If we could get organized and actively boycott companies who deliberately sell crap that could be improved on, we could bring about real change. Business is all about the $$$ so to get the business to change, we have to negotiate with our pocketbooks.
I couldn’t agree with you more and it’s so disheartening to acknowledge it. But I am the ultimate optimist and so I hope that one day we c an get there.
Exactly I feel like the left needs to take a deep look at themselves and ask why someone as insane as trump was able to actually beat them in an election.
“the Food and Drug Administration, Detwiler said. The transition is aimed at creating “a more centralized, cohesive approach to food safety,” he added, but it can also create temporary gaps. On top of this, there’s a number of external factors at play. Many manufacturers relaxed their practices during Covid which is now catching up to them” Northeastern global news
RFK's crap is why so many of us are unhealthy. I'm a 78yr old male in great health. My wife is 70 and in very good health. We get our vaccines on schedule...ALL OF THEM. We eat a sensible diet and do all the other stuff. I remember when kids were getting polio and dying, and when measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella, influenza diminished or took the lives of so many other children before there was mandatory vaccine to attend public school. I had a neighbor who died of TB. Now, they want to stop mandatory vaccines. Children are getting all those diseases again with the same disastrous outcomes. This is wrong.
The minute corporate interests complain to Dear Leader, he will be axed; DJT's personal behavior is direct evidence as to whether he values individual health or monetary wealth, more.
I voted for Harris but after her devastating loss, I thought maybe what I’d heard from RFK about food could be the silver lining to hold onto 😢 I just needed something, anything to help this shit sandwich go down. Good luck to us all, I guess. 😢
Thanks for this video! You mentioned countries that are creating just and equitable food systems currently. I was curious as to what countries you had in mind if you're willing to share :)
You left out the raw milk that RFK is a big proponent of. Raw milk can go either way. Not to mention removing flouride from water and doing away with "seed oils".
“….fall down the ‘wellness’ to alt right pipeline”🤣 I remember this crap in the early 90s--when conservative talk radio started being a thing. The ads. The supplements. The scientist-shaming.
We'll have plenty of soy if China does decide to stop purchasing from us like I've heard they've been considering. I warned people in my circle, when the US government decided to switch corn crops to soy crops, specifically to sell to sell to other countries.
Back in 1972ish, there was an opinion writer in one of the local college papers where I used to live. He said that the far left and extreme right would meet someday. I think you are describing what he was talking about.
I agree that commercially produced foods are not as healthy as natural foods. I am also a firm believer in vaccinations. We need to bring cooking and nutrition back to our schools. We also need to feed our students scratch cooked meals like we did in the 70’s. School lunches do not make kids fat. For many, school lunches are their stable source of good food.
Maternal mortality, infant mortality, elevated cancer zones, childhood malnutrition, inadequate insurances, and contaminated water are all issues neglected and/or targeted with misinformation campaigns.
Thank you so much for all the views and interaction on this video! I did not expect it to reach so many folks. I apologize in advance that I am going to be very slow to read and moderate all the comments. My channel is suddenly getting a LOT more traction and I have had more than 5k comments in under 4 days and it's just me moderating. I know I usually read ALL comment and do my best to interact and reply, but I know in advance that's not going to happen this time.
Thank you again for folks sharing your insight on this topic. I appreciate all of you, even if I'm utterly failing at getting to all of the comments.
Thank you for your efforts! Your voice is valuable!
"Scientifically literate" people put the chemicals in our food. What is wrong with you people???
I recall when Michelle Obama was First Lady, and she was encouraging healthier eating, people went berzerk crying, “She’s going to take away our tater tots, Mountain Dew, burgers, and potato chips!! She must be stopped!! ” And any time people bring up the issues with our food and water supply, there is the outcry that such concerns is “propaganda”. So I find it peculiar that people are not immediately shutting down RFK Jr. Just proves it’s not the message, it’s the messenger.
I find myself wondering if racism and misogyny was at play. A black woman advocating for children didn't seem to get through to some people?
I was coming to say the same thing.
Different subgroups. The health food people like rfk jr and tended to be liberals, their racism is subtle and they dont think they are racist. Its a different group saying dont take my burgers and mountain dew. Those are the ones getting diabetes and dying young from heart disease.
Right? The Right was incensed! How quickly identity politics changes minds.
I remember seeing a TED Talk from Roger, Kitchen Gardners International? His talk was "my subversive plot". MO dug up part of the White House lawn for veg. The horror lol. I had a sign made up for my veg garden.
As a homeschool mom, many of my friends are anti vaxers. I was at least a decade older than them. My response was always, “I remember polio.”
You really need smarter better friends. Im not sure you are qualified to home school.
Exactly. If you are interested, there’s an author specializing in dealing with friends and loved ones in cult-like dynamics. His name is Steve Hasan. With so many online information silos and funnels, it’s likely to be skills that most people will need.
@@davidgray1515 These were otherwise smart people.. All our daughters are grown. My daughter is doing very well.
Smallpox, tetanus, mumps, scarlet fever, measles, the list goes on...
When you are educated.... science has a place.
I am starting the MASA movement -Make America Sane Again....also a wonderful base for holiday tamales...😉
Yes!
HAHA = Help America Heal Again ❤️🩹
The problem with any of these M-formulas slogans starts with the first word "MAKE" because no amount of legislation is going to force a change - and it shouldn't. This was a lesson from the Prohibition era. . . but here we are again. People have to choose a life of health and integrity, it can not be forced no matter which politic.
@ agreed, it’s fascism and exactly what we’re seeing play out in real life, Trump is MAKING America “great” again (for rich white ppl).
@@creativefilmsmusic This is an excellent point. Removing choice and using force rarely goes well, especially in a country that is supposedly all about freedom.
MAQA… make America quiet again
This is so relatable. As a homebirth, homeschool, semi-crunchy Mama, I almost fell down the pipeline myself...and I've watched so many friends not necessarily go full alt-right but become alt-right apologists over wild "wellness" ideas. So much RFK fangirling. It's actually heartbreaking.
What does crunchy mean in this scenario?
You and your friends are part of the problem
@@catalhuyuk7 like eating only organic, no sugar, no gluten, no processed foods, often vegan, but like... Obsessive with it to a fault, such as feeding a cat a vegan diet (when cats are obligate carnivores)
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The YTer is a self proclaimed crunchy mama and this is what it means? Lmao!
I’m for all of it except cats can NOT be vegan.
@@catalhuyuk7 Are you for it as a movement, or as a choice?
And dogs don’t necessarily do well on vegan diets either. Nor do many people.
When I saw a recent picture of RFK, Jr. eating McDonalds with Trump and company, I felt that was enough said.
Exactly. Some think the footage was to diss RFKjr for publicly commenting on Trump’s horrible diet.
@Ketowski trump is petty enough to do that so I think that was at least part of it.
That was a trump power move to show him who the boss is.
Did anyone see him put the food in his mouth, I only saw a picture of him with an unopened box in his hand.
The point of that, imho, was to humiliate RFK and let him know that Trump is on top in the missionary position. RFK prob is often on top, and has had and prob still has a very active sexual (promiscuous) history. He IS a Kennedy (aka John and Robert...and more ) so, I guess change is possible. :)
Growing our own food, even on the smallest scale, is one of the most subversive acts. Once upon a time, we grew Victory Gardens. It may be time to get community gardens going as a movement. It may help rebuild social cohesion.
Oh good luck with that. You’re not allowed to save seeds anymore. It’s illegal. If you buy different types of soil and soil additives that have any type of manure, they have treated the hay with herbicide so it kills your garden… on purpose. And if you get miracle grow and your plants miracle die just remember it’ll be a miracle if you ever get all of the herbicide out of that soil after 10-15 years. Thankfully, I have chickens so I seeded sunflowers and grass for a whole two years in a rotating constant sprout type situation and pulled most of the herbicide out, but the problem is feeding it to the chickens meant my eggs weren’t organic and I couldn’t sell my eggs to my neighbors because they only wanted organic eggs. It’s not like you’re not already eating it in your beef even the pasture raised beef because they eat hay. What do you think is in the pasture? So you’re already eating Grazon herbicide if you eat beef. At a certain point I just give up because they have robbed me as a single, senior female with disability. They refused to recognize my disability then they forced me with gouging groceries to raise food and then they taint everything I need to raise the food… like the chicken pellets Have made the chickens stop laying and to buy the pellets that are proper nutrition for the chickens is way too expensive. It’s just an endless cycle of attacks from every side to try to stop you from feeding yourself, or even just adding some extra nutrition that you’re not getting from the store. They don’t even want you to help supplement your food that they are ruining in the store. Good luck finding a tomato that actually tastes like a tomato anymore. Same thing with a strawberry. There is no sweet in the strawberries. It’s just a sour dry, crunchy spongy thing. Nothing tastes right. Oh… And when you buy the little plants at the store instead of buying seeds, they have hybridized those so that any seeds that come off of the fruit of any of those plants won’t actually grow anything edible. Even if they sprout, they don’t produce the same fruit or vegetable that you got the seed from and it looks nothing like that. You can get those beef steak tomatoes, and if you plant the seeds from those tomatoes, you get what looks like a little cherry tomatoes, and there’s only like five of them on the entire plant. They also actually treat the plant with chemicals as its sprouting that sterilizes the plant so any seeds that do sprout are weak. And so even if you got a few tomatoes from that beef steak tomato seed on the second season, you definitely are not gonna get anything but diminishing returns if you continue planting those same seeds. You’ll starve to death if you have to rely on those seeds. And now there are some legal attacks on heirloom seeds and you’re not allowed to sell them or give them away to anyone and even selling the fruit off of the plant that has fertile seeds inside of it… like selling a tomato… has been the source of legal troubles for some people. So you can grow the tomatoes yourself & you could use those seeds from those tomatoes to plant new tomatoes in your own garden, but you can’t give a tomato away. You can’t sell a tomato and you definitely cannot give any of the seeds from those tomatoes to anyone else to plant. And they will do some kind of genetic testing on the seeds and the plants to find out if they match the plants in your yard in order to prosecute you. That’s how far they are going to try to stop you from feeding yourself. Monsanto wants to be the only source of food and poison everybody apparently. They definitely want everyone to get dementia. This country has gone absolutely psychopath to its core. And I mean the clinical definition of the word psychopath, not an emotional slur. I mean, everyone seems to be missing their amygdala except for about 10% of us. No one seems to have any type of emotional normal range or ability to feel anything for other people and they think that they are the only real human being on the planet and everyone else is just an android. I feel like I’m in a twilight zone episode that just won’t ever end. But what can you do but keep trying? 🤷🏽
We started our own garden a few years ago, but I need to figure out where to get healthy food in the off season - also farm-raised meat and eggs.
@@user-cz5tp5bp2x Many buy some products in bulk in the harvest season and do canning. Also, there are farmer’s markets where some Amish and Mennonite farmers grow organic greenhouse vegetables. Some grow leafy greens all winter long.
@@user-cz5tp5bp2x Learn to can your vegetables like our ancestors did, to get them through the winter. There are lots of videos on the subject, just mason jars and a pressure cooker. You can preserve so many things this way, even make your own jams and jellies, yum!
it really is subversive. and the big cities have finally caught on to what we're trying to do. here in chicago they've made it nearly impossible to start new community gardens and also to maintain existing gardens without a substantial budget. they've created a new policy whereby you have to jump through hoops and pay a crazy amount of money to access the fire hydrants for water. just a few years ago all we had to do was get a hydrant tool from the local fire department. now we're going to have to get more creative with irrigation and water collecting techniques on a low-to-no budget vibe.
This country has lost its ever-loving mind.
Spread of the brain worm...
Raygun stole it away. He paved the way.
@@andreah6379 She, and I love that woman.
Practically all RFK talks about is giving power back to the ppl with common sense measures. Practically everything is anti-capitalist as well - very in-line with the Michelle Obama thing which was great. You do realize RFK has been fighting against the corruption of both huge corporations and public agencies for ,35 years.. ? Where is the gratitude for that work. It's extremely ironic that this guy who has TRULY worked for the common man - and for the environment, in tangible ways like cleaning up rivers and suing the f out of some of the worst corps - can be so reduced so much. He is anything but anti-vaxx for example - all he says is they should be held to the SAME standard as ALL other meds. How can that possibly be seen as extreme. If his work as environmental lawyer was legit - if ppl agree he applied reason and facts -
and he did that shit for 35 YEARS, then why do ppl assume that wouldnt the case here...? Do you guys think the Means-siblings are lying? Just curious.
Thank you. I’m 100% agreed
The day after elections, I decided to go on a 4-year news fast to maintain my sanity, but I had to click on this video because I've never heard the term "MAHA" before. I am totally in sync with everything you said. OK, now I'm back to my news fast.
Good for you. I’m promoting HAHA, since many illnesses seem linked to our gut function. And so many of us needing to heal our mental health, which ties into a better mental “diet”.
@@Ketowski What is HAHA?
I've done the same, and I'm in the UK!!
@@dragonmammmamaybe laughter therapy! some good comedy, silly pet videos and a good time! 😄
(Joking, not actually sure)
Sometimes people go so far left that they come full circle and end up on the right. Mind-boggling. Some of my favorite bloggers and influencers are completely unrecognizable to me now.
I had a client the other day tell me how he was excited that RFK was going to get the poison out of the food. I was like, you know that you can avoid that stuff, right? I’ve been avoiding it for decades. Just eat whole foods . Grow a garden. No one is forcing you to drink Pepsi. All of a sudden people who wouldn’t have previously cared about the content of their food think there’s some big conspiracy. How they think brain worm guy is going to fix it is beyond me.
I have lost so many friends. I know I have changed and grown a lot over the years, but I do feel like fundamentally I'm still me. The friends I've lost to QAnon and the alt right and now MAHA...I miss who they were. That person is gone and has been replaced with something twisted and angry and deluded.
Alot of accusations, where is the evidence.
A lot of MAGAts are going to be shocked to learn that hamburger helper IS the poison in our food.
I refuse to blame anyone but themselves for the hated, ignorance, or greed that led them to voting for DJT after J6, the felonies, all the sexual assaults, Epstein FFS - my own father included who apparently cares more about helping a conman get richer than his own daughter.
100% on the full circle thing.
Thank you for this! It's been horrifying and seriously perplexing to watch friends and colleagues in holistic health fields getting red pilled, making the rest of the community look bad and destroying our credibility. 💜
It’s very unfortunate. I think you’re completely right about the credibility issue, and that is probably unlikely to get better for a very long time.
Oh stop with the "red pilled' crap. Honestly...
have you even watched THE MATRIX? I bet now the left is all like "oh no, that is an altr right bro movie. never going to watcht that" . Just like they refuse to listen to Joe Rogan either.
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No.
I don’t know if this is a conflict or not but, thought I’d put it out there.
Food not lawns: how to turn your yard into a garden and your neighborhood into a community
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Except they’re making gardens illegal by making seeds illegal, and producing plants that don’t seed and can’t be replanted. Not to mention tainting soil with herbicides so you think you’re buying miracle grow soil
and you put it all in your flower bed and nothing will grow and you find out it’s the manure because the cows ate hay that have an herbicide and it lasts for a decade in the soil until enough grasses have grown and been taken away to bring it back out of the soil. My whole front flower bed around my cabin is tainted and it’s been three years and I finally got a very weak tomato to grow but nothing else will grow properly. I keep seeding oats and wheat grass and sunflowers like literally spreading it across the soil in a layer of seeds and letting it sprout and then scraping off the whole top layer of sprouts. And doing it again because it’s faster. I had to throw away everything the first year that I did that and it cost me so much money for all that animal feed to use as sprouts and then throw it all away, actually in the landfill. Then the second year I was getting successful growth to a point so that it was such a small amount of herbicide that I could feed the sprouts to my chickens because we eat the beef that the cattle are eating the hay so I fed the chickens out of desperation. it ruined my organic eggs, but at least it cut my costs down. And after year number three of constant sprouts in this one small flower bed, I finally got one tomato to grow and produce a handful of tomatoes, and I do mean a handful. So I still have a long way to go. And this was with miracle grow soil. So like I’m saying… Good luck trying to garden because all the wealthy corporate people don’t want you to have a garden and they’re trying to ruin as much land as they possibly can and limit our food production to the point where it’s going to be an extinction level event within your lifetime at the rate that they’re going.
Too many useless county ordinances. Magat government doesnt want us to have gardens or grow food.
I love how many are turning their ornamental gardens into mixed gardens with both vegetables and compatible ornamentals as companion plants. And homeowners innovating with their spaces is fascinating to see. Some urban areas even allowing chickens, without roosters.
Unfortunately there are a lot of cities and towns that won't allow that. And not just HOA neighborhoods. That needs to change.
As I am quite elderly, I know I won't live to see a better America. It saddens me to know that so many people voted to flush our way of life down the toilet. It's because of lack of education and critical thinking, that we are in this mess. The idea that people think it's bad to be educated is most alarming. The founders of this country were highly educated people. Those who have just won this election are barely educated and yes, we will suffer. Thank you Trump, a third world country here we come.
Absolutely, yes to everything you just said!
As an autistic, I was horrified when my own sister CONTINUES to bring of RFK and how he's getting rid of red dye so he can't be THAT bad - I genuinely don't know how to help her pull her head out of her ass...oh that's right, I can't. And THAT is what is the worst part because she's not stupid. She is VERY educated and in upper management for IT security and even she refuses to just do a quick google search about who he REALLY is and what he is actually planning on doing. I just - COME ON PEOPLE!!!
I am curious about what you’ve written. Who is he and what is he planning to do? I can’t seem to find what you know.
@@Painted_lady It's spread out, usually it's on various podcasts that he has been on. But he thinks that anyone who uses chronic medication should be forced to stop, if they die, they die, and if they don't die but need medication because they for example have ADHD or depression, they should be sent to "wellness farms". Which is just another word for forced labor camps.
He also thinks that vaccines cause autism, and that there are zero safe vaccines in existence, so they must all be banned. As relevant to the person you replied to, he has apparently also said some pretty gross things about autistic people. Though people who say that autism is caused by vaccines almost always have those sorts of beliefs.
hey, folks can support RFKjrs work and things and be educated AND not be "stupid"... It is the LEFT that are unable to comprehend this is possible.. cause they have their own massive cognitive dissonance!
@@Painted_lady basically camps for folks with ADHD or depression
Thank you for putting this together.
thank you for watching and commenting! My kid mentioned the other day that several of my YT subs and a few of my patrons don't have TikTok, so I should compile subjects I talk about over there and share them here. I'm glad she nudged me to do that!
@@ParkrosePermaculture I've never been on TikTok.
@@ParkrosePermaculture Your kid is correct, not all of us subscribe to TikTok. I'm 55 years old and have no room for TikTok (or Facebook/"Xwitter"/Threads) in my life. Thank you for your insight. I found you through your takes on Trumpers getting black-listed by us who care, but I'm staying for the Permaculture life. 😊
I don't TikTok either. So I am glad you are here.
We are 'steading in MO and building a natural house, so permaculture rocks... Most of the time. 💙👍🏻
One only has to look at Samoa to see the threat Mr. Brain Worm is.
For sure. I hope that too many in America don’t have to suffer before many of that following catch onto the realities that this administration overlooks.
Sorry, meaning the incoming administration.
Explain please.
@@margaretmarshall3645 His nonsense resulted in an outbreak of measles there, a number of kids died as a result.
@@KarlDubhe 😢
Bwahaha but Newsome takes red m40 out of skittles and the right screams foul. Truly remarkable time to be alive.
It’s just textbook whatever the other side does is sensationalized as bad.
Meanwhile, that specific ingredient is already illegal in the EU and producers have switched to things like beet juice without much trouble.
As humans we have been separated from our food sources. People are starting to garden, bake, can and barter with our neighbours again. That’s the movement we need. Support local food markets, craft fairs, etc. share with neighbours and they’ll share back.
This may be a class-based scenario. In other words, upper middle class white people can choose organic etc.
@@homerroad There are community gardens in the city. Even motivated lower income people can grow their own vegetables. God knows there are so many empty lots in the hood. In the city of Philadelphia you are allowed to use these lots to garden until someone buys them. Yet even in food deserts, folks lack motivation to grow food, it's so much easier to go to McDonalds.
You are a breath of fresh air! Thank you for speaking truth!
Thanks so much. I also don't understand how anyone would think that RFK Jr can be that person who will deliver clean healthy food to our neighborhoods. After all, the man has always prided himself on the fact he will eat just about anything. (and he wasn't kidding) I am not one extreme or the other...for me it's simple... grow or purchase food to be prepared with the methods our grandmothers passed down. But, our neighborhoods have become food deserts. The most urgent problem I feel we face is the lack of real grocery stores in too many communities. It worries me that I haven't heard RFK Jr mention it one time.
well did Rachel Levine do that? Nope. so people are like let's try someone new. y'all are acting as if Kamala was gunna go full blown marxists anti capitalist permaculture crazy ahah.
It's ironic how they want to talk about living healthy, yet want to exercise environmental deregulation, which would contribute to toxic air throughout the country and world.
RFKjr was a Democrat.. and went to the Harris campaign to work with them but it is this stupid stubbornesss and rigidity that basically rebuffed him.... over the vaccine issue. You all have been brainwashed by BIg Pharma etc.. the reiteration of "anti vax" labels you all fell for the oldest propaganda rhetoric of appeals to ridicule and ad hominem attacks.. Your utter self rightiousness really is a major turnoff!!.
This is such an incredible and eloquent take down of everything MAHA, I’ve been struggling to put my frustrations into words
MCTN Make Critical Thinking Normal ! Y’all ! It’s not complicated !
The problem is they think critical thinking means to criticize everything.
It becomes complicated because they actively suppress it.
Thank you for making this point! Buy from local farmers if you can't grow your own. But defunding the FDA and stopping vaccines is not the way forward.
Most of the farm land near me has been replaced by mini mansions. I don't get enough sun for a productive garden.
@@Nononsense99 Even without the optimal amount of sun, there may still be things you can grow. Most of my old garden space stays in for much of the day except at the very height of summer and I still managed to get a decent crop this year. If you can grow food for yourself, you can still put in plants and features that support wildlife and pollinators. That helps to offset having to purchase big ag food if that's all you have available.
I have been saying these food culture ideas for decades (waaaay older than this fine lady). I am a retired pharmacist who has always believed that the first medicine we should put in our bodies are foods that we know where they were grown. Either organically by ourselves or local small farmers.
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Good people - before January 20, 2025, get your and your children’s vaccines up to date. For the anti-vax people, I highly recommend perusing the communicable diseases that killed thousands of children in the US Census Mortality Schedules per year and Tuberculosis ward Census Reports from pre-vaccine, pre-pasteurized milk days to fully understand why vaccines and pasteurized milk products came to be a “thing”.
Pasteurized milk, which is not healthy, wouldn't have to be "a thing" if we had the availability of clean local food.
@@jennifernordlund2691 "clean" food. Look everyone, we have a MAHA here!
@@jennifernordlund2691 Actually, it would because there would always be those few with questionable standards that had contaminated milk. It’s an unfortunate reality of the marketplace.
While those promoting and supporting raw milk do tend to have good standards, anyone can break into a market. Personally I’d like to see niche regulations for raw dairy available everywhere, but not large scale.
Many areas that have it for the cheese market do an excellent job of maintaining good quality and promote basic health standards.
@@jennifernordlund2691 Can you explain as to how slightly heating milk up suddenly makes it not healthy? I've never heard of food before that is apparently healthy until you heat it up a little bit.
As someone who worked on a small, local, dairy farm, I had to clean the udders before I milked, and they were always covered in poop. Pasteurization is way better than milk with fecal bacteria growing in it.
I have no problem with people eating more healthily and making choices that lead to a healthy lifestyle, but I am old enough to have had a father who had life long health issues because he got polio as a child. I also remember how some of my preschool students were hospitalized due to having chickenpox. There are good reasons why a small group of people can't get vaccines but lots of children and adults used to die before there were vaccines. I for one do not want to go back to that.
"I am old enough to have had a father who had life long health issues because he got polio as a child"
Ditto. My dad ended up with a damaged leg, and wearing a brace his entire life.
I fail to understand how an anti-vaxxer is going to make America healthy again.
I think we’re usually talking about Glatt phosphate and Neonicitide, Lowering arsenic. Our foods are less dense, because modern monoculture, large scale, farm agriculture destroys our soil, and after the dust bowl, the government realize they need to protect the topsoil in this country but then over the past 40 years, they’ve chipped away and chipped away at the regulations That protected the ground soil and they’ve also dried up pull out of the ground water. Why do we allow a desert like Arizona to be calmer this ginormous golfing center all that grass is sucking the life out of the state and damaging the Colorado River
Thank you for speaking/informing about this with such a respectful and loving tone. There's a difference between telling someone they've been fooled and telling them they are dumb. I have friends in the USA, very good people, but when it comes to politics or finding actual info and not just very homemade or extremely misinterpreted statistics, they are a disaster. They deserve better.
Everyone should read The Jungle. I thrifted it when I was a very young adult and it was life altering.
on the money. we have been mind warped. grow and eat real food, for health, for the planet, for our children!
Simple and accurate!
Well, for starters, stripping people if medical care is not the way to make them healthier, nor is deregulating food and water standards. 🤷♀️
I so appreciate, how you manage to articulate these concerns and observations so clearly. I'm with you 100%!
Thank you for this.. I've unsubbed from some channels because of their support for Trump/RFK Jr even though they (the channels) were promoting good health.. it just boggles my mind how they could think these individuals are going to actually help people be healthier
FDA has been ineffective for a long time. They is why a lot of manufacturers and retailers came together to create SQF (Safe Quality Foods) and BRC (British Retail Consortium Global Standard) to assure customers that they are receiving what the companies claim they are providing. While not perfect they do help operate as a 3rd party check on the worst in manufacturer behavior. So look for a SQF or BRC logo on packaging.
As someone who works in food quality, I am pretty concerned for what we are in for.
FDA has been criminally corrupt for 40 yrs. At least..
Meee toooooo! In similar ways . Covid really brought stuff to light for me . Also as someone with an autoimmune disorder who was taking hydroxychloroqine having people people touting it as a covid cure and simultaneously calling it poison for my autoimmune disorder. Wild . Crunchy to alt right pipeline, I didn’t see it coming
Also as someone born and raised in central WI with more than one dairy farm in my immediate circle the raw milk thing, especially for kids, nuts .
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My doctor prescribed hydroxychloroquine for my autoimmune condition/neuropathy. I didn’t take a single pill. Total quackery.
@@chelseacraft4669so why did you go to that doctor? I think crystals and unicorn energy will heal you! ❤
@@nom3nnescio so you don’t know how HMO/PPO insurance works… and how do you know a doctor is a bad doctor until you go to them? Did I say I kept going to that doctor? Oh wait, unicorns and crystals? You’re a psychic. You know everything before it happens to you that’s why your life is perfect… That’s why you’re spending your time criticizing a person for irrelevant fictitious problems because you are just so full of free time these days it’s all you have left to do.
Thank you for making such important content.
As a permaculture person with a Master's in Ecology, so VERY much this. Just because I think glyphosate is poison doesn't mean I want everyone to end up with polio. 🙄
Exactly. Something that the Health Gurus don’t want to talk about.
They’ve sold out, unfortunately.
Wellness culture relies on science not giving mega corporations more free access to markets.
I doubt that RFK jr or Trump know anything about regenerative agriculture or permaculture.
Working collectively is what’s needed. Not divisive leaders good at marketing, but poor on delivery to the average consumers.
Making food safer will require more government regulations, not less. It will also need the corporate lobby to be neutered!
From experience I can honestly say, that the foods you have grown yourself organically tastes SO much better!
RFK Jr. admitted that he got jacked by taking anabolic steroids. Real healthy...
This is horrifying. I’ve been a natural food person for ages and never heard people were being sucked into the right over this. Goes to show how much work needs to be done on our education system for basic science education. No child left behind was/is a disaster. Republican scheme to gain power at the expense of the well being of the country.
When Kamala cozied up to the Cheneys are you really surprised?
The worst thing about this "MAHA" movement is that RFK Jr. himself is still a very huge drug user. He doesn't even walk the talk. He has these half baked ideas that threaten our already very delicate healthcare standing.
How many Americans have to die for folks to be like "Oooooooh, maybe this was a BAD idea?"
Deaths won’t change people’s minds, unfortunately. See also: gun violence, pandemic, abortion restrictions…
I had to sever a 30 year friendship over RFK and Trump...ain't nobody got time for that...😪
Im concerned about another pandemic happening if he gains traction and more people decide to be anti-vax...😢
I think many of you would be interested in The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone. Although the main thrust of the book is about how many of our current plants were brought here by David Fairchild, there are many examples of how the government has had its sticky fingers in our food supply since the beginning of our nation.
Thank you. I’m a nurse and I quit my job in case management recently. I can’t handle the ignorant comments any more. I got so tired of leading horses to water only to watch them just look at their reflections while they whither away. I’m in the game of go as long as I can without surgeries and medications. Well I thought I saved my best visit for last before leaving my job a week ago. One of the people said to me, don’t worry whatever it is RFK will fix it. Every day my decision was solidified further and I am not sure I can go back. I should mention I live in Nw Colorado where growing is difficult and it’s taken me years to develop my yard and greenhouse to where it is now. So many people I have talked to are just negative Nancys. I keep having to tell them there is a way and you just have to keep at it. Thank you for keeping me sane this morning by the way. Been a long road of prepping and nowhere near where I’d like us to be. Keep on keeping on right 😊
Growing distrust in institutions is understandable. But this distrust is being exploited by post-truth entrepreneurial politicians like Trump, RFK Jr., Vance, etc etc.
Rebel economic developer here. So glad to have found you!
Thank you so much for speaking out.
Well said Angela!!!
It is easier to think there will be one person who can save us when the truth is we will save ourselves through knowledge not only of the food products and the deregulations we can change it if we vote in senators and Congress that actually represent us instead of taking the bribes from Big pharma.
There's a movie called Food and Country that is a documentary that discusses this. It is imperative for people to watch that to understand everything she's saying. Every. Single. Thing. Taken straight from the farmers being screwed by these corporations on purpose to drive them out of business so these corporations win. When they win, all of us little people lose- we lose money by paying more for crap, and we lose our health because we're eating crap food that's genetically modified and grown with chemicals and hormones. The farmers talked about all this. I was nearly in tears when I finished watching it.
Monsanto comes to mind.
My gay brother voted for trump because he thinks RFK, Jr. is brilliant. Insane.
Maybe look into Steve Hassan. He has guidelines for dealing with questionable organizations and movements that may be cult-like.
It's about those relaxed regulations on big food. Kidney Xplant on Immunosuppressants here.
who do they think will pay for this, the MFs won't even consider universal school meals
"Make Polio Great Again!!" _ RFK Jr.
Why not try to understand why people might believe or question what they've been told is 'good' for them for decades? So much division in the world. Age-old tactic by those in power: divide and conquer.
Yes, all of what you said.
I, too, am a Biologist crunchy mom, and, knowing what I know, America never really was healthy like they think it was, so, just like their fantasy that the 50's was the ideal decade is garbage, the idea that there was some idyllic period of perfect health and wellness in the United States at any point in time is also a fantasy. Just like the notion that ancient paleolithic people were the epitome of health, etc. etc. Make America healthy, sure. But, make it healthy again? There's nothing to "get back to." We can only push forward with new discoveries and innovation as we apply newfound knowledge to our daily lives.
The only thing I can think of that made the 50s better is that fat was blamed incorrectly for heart disease in the 50s and the truth didn’t come out mainstream until the 2010s. Only in the last few years have trans fats finally gone but the damage over the last 70 years was done.
@@natehunter2961 I hate to break it to you, but saturated fat does cause heart disease. If it didn't, it wouldn't be the thing scientists use to induce heart disease in animal models. But they do, and it works. Saturated fat also causes Type 2 diabetes. I'll give you one guess as to how they induce that in animal models. The good news is that if you avoid all sources of saturated fat, you can reverse heart disease and type 2 diabetes. This has been peer reviewed and published. It is established science. Source: I'm a Biologist whose colleagues did this in the lab. I'm not going to argue with people in the comments section about it. You can believe what you want to believe, I'm not going to stop you, but if you're interested in the actual science, there it is.
@@m0L3ifythis is incorrect. There's actually met analyses to debunk sat fat = heart disease 9999x going back for over a decade now
@@natehunter2961Id say not having diabetes is definitely an idyllic period!
Unless the for-profit medicine bill from 1972 is repealed and we get some sane nutrition standards, nothing is going to change. I agree that we are being deceived by MAHA and the system as a whole. Grow your own food and learn about herbal remedies. Food can be grown in a window seal, on a patio, on the kitchen counter, in a flowerbed, as well as the traditional places.
You can say whatever you want, i remember not being allowed to go to the local park/pool because of polio. My friends were in braces. I am only 70. Think about it. Do a blog on the iron lung.
It's sad that they voted for crazy people instead of voting with their dollars by not getting their food (or at least so much of it) from big corporations who have zero care or accountability. This is why I do my best to get as much of my food as possible from my garden or from farmers that I have actual in person relationships with. I'd even call many of them my friends. They know and care about me as a person, and I them. That kind of connection ensures greater accountability and safety. We absolutely need regulations, but I think we also need closer relationships to where our food comes from, as these are also protective.
Eating food that I've grown is such a joy! I feel it nourishes me on so many levels and certainly feels more nutritious than even stuff from the farmer's market. It connects me to the land where I live, the other creatures that live here, the cycles of the seasons and so much more. It makes me feel rich to be surrounded by food that I grew, like the 200+ pounds of winter squash taking up all my shelves. Everyone deserves to experience that and I hope we find our way there. An obstacle I see is that many people seem to think that growing food or even preparing food is somehow "beneath them" or a waste of their time. That they have more important and better things to do. I'm not sure how to work with that one. I'd love to hear your thoughts on shifting that attitude, if that's a video you'd ever be interested in making.
It's hard, if not impossible, to take RFK seriously!!??? When he looks, sounds, and thinks like a very UNHEALTHY person. 🇺🇸🆘️🙏💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
I think RFK won't last long in the administration. He's different than the rest of the MAGA folks.
He's not different, in any way. He's a useful tool and the minute he stops submitting to ritual humiliation exercises like being made to pose with a Big Mac and Coca-Cola (which he has called literal poison multiple times), or the minute corporate interests complain about his work, he's going to be fired, probably by a social media post.
He was a useful idiot to drop out of the presidetial race and endorse 🍊🤡. That's why he got his nomination for HHS secretary. He sold his soul. He should know that he would just be window dressing/red meat to the alternative health community of which I'm one too-just not MAGA. The repugs aren't going to let RFK do anything that will drop the botton lines of big ag and pharma, who bought and paid for them. This community is gleeful right now but will soon be disappointed. But hey, thanks for the votes, suckers!
@@ShineOnBenevolentSunI can’t stop thinking of that or he won’t do the things he promised but I agree that he will be fired for those reasons
Thanks- appreciate your viewpoints and thoughts.
Oh my goodness!! Thank you!! 💙💙
You are my lifeline!! Never stop posting! ♥️
They don't care abut US, US the people.
Agree deregulation hurts wellbeing of all.
I invest in stocks and in companies that are not environment friendly- I guess very few companies if at all any are “green” - it is not that I do not realize the harm and the correct direction in which things should go. But I have come to realize that it is highly unlikely that corporations, governments or even public in any country will work towards values we all talk about. If you talk about India (born and brought up there) many values are just religious stories, chanting, rituals (with their own high carbon footprint) and all this when surroundings are full of poor homeless people, full of trash and stray animals, pollution. Not just the public but I have seen religious preachers not letting homeless people on road use religious place as shelter. Such is the psychosis of “being holy”. Few other facts -
(1) Most of the public is not even ready to talk, forget about forming communities for any good transition. It’s a fact. I agree corporations are at fault first but deliberate public neglect in their own wellbeing is second.
(2) The very public that a few great leaders have fought and sacrificed for has conveniently forgotten them, rather years later they are questioned. The sacrificial model that the public is so in love with- “talk good” may be even celebrate a day or two per year as a holiday “in their memory” isn’t going to establish any positive reform. “Dry day” on Gandhi Ji’s birthday is a perfect example. Yes if anyone chooses to self sacrifice they are sure to get their name written somewhere in history text books but values is a different game - another fact.
Nonetheless- what make some sense to me is try and establish financial stability via job and investment and finding authentic avenues to support (Peepal Farm, One Tree Planted are few examples) besides keep changing lifestyle choices like growing food at home being one example.
His ' brain worm' 😂😂
We? I didn’t vote for the Trump nightmare. It’s them.
Keep hoping, love your work, A! 💚
5:21 Nope. In the 9th grade we were reading that waste of ink, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. And to think that this all could have been avoided if we read The Jungle or "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.
I used to teach history to high school (until 2020) and I would have them read excerpts. The kids couldn't grasp the language usage, so I switched to videos. They were grossed out, but in all honesty, I don't think any of it resonated with them as they crunched their way through a bag of Takis and slurped down their Starbucks during classtime
Goodness, someone besides me knows of The Jungle by Upton Sinclare! I was an avid reader and sometime, in 5th grade i think, i hastily reached to the library's shelf while seeking The Jungle Book; it was jarringly different but also riveting as I lear ed history could be interesting and encompassed by fiction. I do l known that i ended up with Rebecca by Dalphine Du Muir that year while seeking Rebecca of Sunybrook Farm to appease an aunt's reading wishes for me. I read the whole book and avoided any discussion of it with that aunt except to say that i had checked out Rebecca (as she called it) and i was enjoying it.
The election neglected the consequences of capitalism and climate change on our society. None of root causes of our societal issues were addressed by the GOP. 😢
It's not 'Make America Hate Again'?
No, they got that one right the first time😂
@@melissal4363 Agreed.
Thank you for speaking out
I liked your video and what you had to say. I do disagree about something you said though. I didn’t raise bigots. I have a son dating a black woman. He is white. And he voted for Trump. Social media., Fox News and Joe Rogan have a lot to do with it. Sometimes it’s not how you raise them but what they are hearing as they are growing up. My son is 23. And a very good person all around. Ideas were just putting in his head.
Excellent ! You state the reality of the future Maha. Thank you
Thank you the video. I've been eating whole foods for almost a decade and have been slowly sourcing that food with what I can grow, raise and find locally. The regulations debate troubles me because I think we need guardrails so the major for profit conglomerates don't take shortcuts that damage the health of people that can't grow their own food but how do we also allow a small farmer to sell their extras to neighbors without breaking the law especially when it comes to meat?
While I’m 100% on board with regulations to keep the food chain safe, it’s not the only the way. We need to realize that we hold the cards BECAUSE we don’t have to buy the garbage they sell. If we could get organized and actively boycott companies who deliberately sell crap that could be improved on, we could bring about real change. Business is all about the $$$ so to get the business to change, we have to negotiate with our pocketbooks.
I couldn’t agree with you more and it’s so disheartening to acknowledge it. But I am the ultimate optimist and so I hope that one day we c an get there.
5:11 *Trump deregulated our food industry in his last term but why didn’t Biden fix it?
Exactly I feel like the left needs to take a deep look at themselves and ask why someone as insane as trump was able to actually beat them in an election.
“the Food and Drug Administration, Detwiler said. The transition is aimed at creating “a more centralized, cohesive approach to food safety,” he added, but it can also create temporary gaps.
On top of this, there’s a number of external factors at play. Many manufacturers relaxed their practices during Covid which is now catching up to them” Northeastern global news
Biden didn't fix it because he is weak and indecisive.
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Thank you! I appreciate this content.
RFK's crap is why so many of us are unhealthy. I'm a 78yr old male in great health. My wife is 70 and in very good health. We get our vaccines on schedule...ALL OF THEM. We eat a sensible diet and do all the other stuff. I remember when kids were getting polio and dying, and when measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella, influenza diminished or took the lives of so many other children before there was mandatory vaccine to attend public school. I had a neighbor who died of TB. Now, they want to stop mandatory vaccines. Children are getting all those diseases again with the same disastrous outcomes. This is wrong.
I’m not sure that he will actually do anything.
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The minute corporate interests complain to Dear Leader, he will be axed; DJT's personal behavior is direct evidence as to whether he values individual health or monetary wealth, more.
He wants to get rid of vaccines. Measles will run rampant with him in charge
I voted for Harris but after her devastating loss, I thought maybe what I’d heard from RFK about food could be the silver lining to hold onto 😢 I just needed something, anything to help this shit sandwich go down. Good luck to us all, I guess. 😢
Thanks for this video! You mentioned countries that are creating just and equitable food systems currently. I was curious as to what countries you had in mind if you're willing to share :)
You left out the raw milk that RFK is a big proponent of. Raw milk can go either way. Not to mention removing flouride from water and doing away with "seed oils".
I'm just praying that any trade deals the UK does with the new administration will not mean we get imports of deregulated food from the US.
You have an Amen from me.
I'd be surprised if the MAHA thing comes to anything, corporate America is not going to be on board.
“….fall down the ‘wellness’ to alt right pipeline”🤣 I remember this crap in the early 90s--when conservative talk radio started being a thing. The ads. The supplements. The scientist-shaming.
We'll have plenty of soy if China does decide to stop purchasing from us like I've heard they've been considering.
I warned people in my circle, when the US government decided to switch corn crops to soy crops, specifically to sell to sell to other countries.
Back in 1972ish, there was an opinion writer in one of the local college papers where I used to live. He said that the far left and extreme right would meet someday. I think you are describing what he was talking about.
I agree that commercially produced foods are not as healthy as natural foods. I am also a firm believer in vaccinations. We need to bring cooking and nutrition back to our schools. We also need to feed our students scratch cooked meals like we did in the 70’s. School lunches do not make kids fat. For many, school lunches are their stable source of good food.
Maternal mortality, infant mortality, elevated cancer zones, childhood malnutrition, inadequate insurances, and contaminated water are all issues neglected and/or targeted with misinformation campaigns.