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large health organizations

were encouraging people

to eat the very foods

linked to the diseases they're

supposed to be fighting against.

American Heart Association

promoting beef,

American Cancer Society

promoting processed meat,

pink ribbons on dairy products,

and bacon-wrapped shrimp on

American Diabetes Association.

And then,

it all came together.

What if...

And there it was.

The American Diabetes

Association was taking money

from Dannon, one of the world's

largest dairy yogurt producers.

Kraft Foods, makers of

Velveeta processed cheese,

Oscar Meyer processed meats,

Lunchables processed kids' meals,

and Bumble Bee Foods, makers

of processed canned meats.

American Cancer Society

was taking money

from Tyson, one of the

world's largest meat producers

and Yum! Brand, owner of

Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell.

Susan G. Komen, who was supposed

to be fighting breast cancer,

was corporate

partnering with KFC,

Dietz Watson processed

meats and Yoplait yogurt.

And the American Heart Association was

probably the most disturbing of all,

taking hundreds

of thousands of dollars

from the beef industry,

poultry and dairy producers

and millions from fast food and

processed food manufacturers.

Every single one

of these organizations

was taking money from

meat and dairy companies

that are associated with

the causes of these diseases.

This would be like the

American Lung Association

taking money from

the tobacco industry.

I was sick of

not getting answers.

So, I went to the headquarters

of these organizations myself.

We have to speak

to someone in person.

There's millions of people

dying from the foods

that they are recommending

people to eat.

I wanted to find out why Susan G. Komen

had accepted $35 million from Yoplait,

when their products can

increase a woman's chance

of dying from

breast cancer 49%,

and ask American Cancer

Society if taking money

from KFC and Tyson was a reason

they promote eating meat.

But, every one of these organizations

declined to be interviewed.

What's really sad is

that we cannot trust

information from these

leading health organizations

like the American Heart Association,

the American Diabetes Association

because they are taking money

from the very industries

who are causing the problems that they're

supposed to be helping to prevent.

So, that makes the truth

something that

you are not gonna be hearing,

as far as nutrition goes,

from these organizations.

Well, that would be the

end of their funding,

that would be the end of their

jobs, there would be lawsuits

that would bring the entire

catastrophe down upon their heads,

and they would essentially

disappear as organizations.

This one time I got invited

to a charity fundraiser

for the American Diabetes

Association.

I showed up, and they had a whole buffet,

and it was all just animal products.

I remember like a big

thing of barbecue chicken.

And I was like, I stormed out.

I said like,

serving chicken

at a diabetes event

is like serving alcohol

at an AA meeting.

It doesn't make sense.

[Kip] We had scheduled to film an

interview with a prominent surgeon.

But, before we could get

inside the building,

the hospital's media

relations manager stopped us.

Actually I understand that Dr...

said that you could film here today,

but, unfortunately, that's

not gonna be able to happen.

I know that he advocates for

patients changing their diets,

but, the hospital makes

money off these surgeries,

and the reality is,

he does, too.

So, we can't do anything that's gonna

negatively impact the hospital,

so unfortunately, you're not gonna

be able to film here today.

He said that we could, though.

[Kip] I was sickened

by how open she was

about the hospital being more interested

in profits than people's health.

But, it wasn't just this

hospital or these organizations.

Even the US government

is involved, too.

Every five years, the US

Department of Agriculture

creates dietary guidelines

for Americans.

The committee who writes these guidelines

has been made up of individuals

who have received money from McDonald's,

the National Dairy Council,

the American Meat Institute,

the National Dairy Board,

the National Livestock and Meat Board,

the American Egg Board, Dannon,

candy and sugar companies, Coca Cola

and Anheuser, just to name a few.

Which means we are getting

our dietary recommendations

from the very industries

that are killing us.

And when they, the USDA, makes

a pyramid or a Power Plate

every five years for

the American public,

they're gonna guarantee

that on that plate

are gonna be foods,

which when consumed,

will result in millions

of Americans perishing.

The USDA, which is supposed to be

protecting us, has two missions.

It's supposed to protect us, and it's

supposed to protect the producer.

And guess what, when those

two come head to head,

they usually choose

the producer.

[Kip] In internal documents

uncovered by Dr. Greger,

the USDA admitted that eggs

cannot legally be called

nutritious, low fat,

part of a balanced diet,

low calorie, healthful, healthy, can't

say it's good for you or, even safe.

Yet they still

promote these products

to the American people through

federal checkoff programs.

If you ask somebody

if they have heard

of a checkoff program,

the odds are they haven't,

although daily, they are seeing the

messaging that these programs produce.

So, checkoff programs

are responsible

for the messages that we

see on TV, on the Internet,

on buzz billboards and

magazines that say things like,

"Milk, it does a body good,"

or "milk life.

Beef, it's what's for dinner.

Pork, be inspired.

The incredible edible egg."

The dairy checkoff

program gave $12 million

to Domino's to just market

cheese-heavy product.

And this is the USDA,

this is the government.

If you've seen those ads

for the Pizza Hut pizza,

the stuffed crust

or a pound of cheese.

Those are all government advertising

schemes for the industry.

How can we put more cheese on beef?

How can we put more milk in a coffee?

Things like that

to just drive consumption

of these just unbelievably

unhealthful products.

So, McDonald's, for instance, has

six people staffed full-time,

according to records we found,

whose salaries are paid for

by this government program

but, funded by the producers

who are regulated by it.

And these six people sit there

at McDonald's headquarters

and just come up with ideas.

Triple cheese decker

McCheese muffin

stuffed bacon cheese slider?

With extra cheese?

- Nice!

- Yes!

You don't think of it

on a day-to-day basis

that these are

government programs.

The Wendy's Bacon

Double Cheeseburger.

Government program.

The steak fajita

at Dunkin' Donuts.

Government program.

You would just never think that this just

pure garbage from a food standpoint,

is coming from

a federally-funded program.

That's one of the things that makes

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