What the Health Page #9

checkoffs so incredibly creepy,

is that it is our government telling

us eat more beef, drink more milk,

eat more cheese, eat more pork.

One of the very effective

ways that the dairy industry

promotes its products

is to reach children

because kids

are impressionable,

they're gonna be consumers

for their entire lives,

and you might as well get

'em while they're young.

So, dairy spends at least $50 million

promoting its products in public schools

throughout the country

with posters,

with people

with milk mustaches

and messages like "Milk,

it does the body good,"

or "milk life."

Targeting young people,

like the tobacco industry

had to keep replacing their customers

who were dying with new customers.

Meat industry knows they

have to target young people.

That's why we have these

foods in schools

and marketing messages at

a younger and younger age

for kids to get hooked on

all the wrong kinds of foods.

So, there's

all kinds of parallels.

School districts where processed

meats are all over the place,

maybe it's gonna be bacon on the menu,

sausage, hotdogs or pepperoni pizza.

Any of those things

are processed meats,

and those are pretty much

the worst of the worst

with a direct link

to colon cancer.

And yet you have every day in the schools

meal items with processed meats.

[Kip] If the surgeon

general puts warning labels

on tobacco because of

their cancer risk,

why aren't the same

warning labels on meat?

Based on the publicly available data, we

know they spend at least $557 million

promoting their goods

through checkoff programs.

We know that they spend at least

$138 million lobbying Congress.

We expect that they spend

a good deal more than that

in figures that simply

aren't publicly disclosed.

[Kip] The industry's

lobbying power is so strong

that they can create laws

and push through legislation

that doesn't benefit

Americans in any way,

such as ag-gag laws that

criminalize whistle-blowing

or photographing abuses

by this industry.

Activists in the US can

be charged as terrorists

for disrupting the profits of

any business that uses animals,

under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,

to the even more ridiculous ones like

cheeseburger laws.

A cheeseburger law is a law that

says a plaintiff cannot recover

against a manufacturer,

distributor or, retailer,

on the theory that the food

made the plaintiff obese

or caused

an obesity related disease.

Cheeseburger laws

are a direct response

to a problem that the

tobacco industry has had.

Big Tobacco has paid $400 billion

to state Medicaid programs.

Cheeseburger laws

proponents say,

"We don't want to see the

same kind of thing happen

"to the meat

and dairy industries."

The fact that these laws are

based on a model template

called a Commonsense

Consumption Act

is actually ironic because

what they're saying is

you, the consumer, should

have the common sense

to know that

our food is bad for you.

I've often typified the

meat industry to people who

maybe don't understand

its power and reach,

as it's got all the money of

Big Tobacco and Big Pharma,

and it has the personality of

the National Rifle Association.

So, any little thing that comes

up, man, they beat it to death.

[Kip] Robert Martin

wasn't exaggerating.

When the profits of the egg

industry were threatened

by egg alternative company

Hampton Creek Foods,

extremely disturbing emails were uncovered

by Ryan Shapiro and Jeffrey Light.

We uncovered documents demonstrating

the American Egg Board

considers Hampton Creek, quote

"a crisis and major threat

"to the future of the

American egg industry."

The American Egg Board

considers a successful

egg replacer company

to be such a threat

that they joke on their

government email addresses

about murdering the CEO.

[Kip] In internal government emails

with the heads of the egg industry,

they suggest having the CEO of Hampton

Creek, Josh Tetrick, murdered,

including a menacing email from executive

director of the American Egg Board.

The meat producers

don't have to pay for

the heart disease or

the environmental destruction

or any of the other externalities,

as economists call them,

that their products cause.

Then there's a whole

pharmaceutical aspect of it

and the fact that there's a very

strong pharmaceutical industry

and lobby that has a huge stake

in preserving the status quo.

These chronic diseases,

these are the cash cows of

the pharmaceutical industry.

We have a $5 billion stent industry.

Do they ever want to see that go away?

We've got a $35 billion

statin drug industry.

Do they ever want

to see that go away?

I'm talking about the

pharmaceutical industry

effectively controls

what doctors are told.

Most research isn't

put into prevention.

It's put into the medication

that we might use

for that particular disease.

I'm on two different

high blood pressure medicines.

Six asthma type medicines.

Even after

four years of shots.

And another medicine

to help take care

of side effects from some

of those medicines.

I'm on high level

anti-depressants.

A couple of different pain meds

for my back and hips.

I'm taking about 16 drugs.

Not counting the insulin

in the morning.

I take insulin in the morning,

insulin at night, 32-34 units,

of insulin.

Lantus to be exact.

Some of these meds

are for diabetes.

This is for peeing.

I have to use this

for my prostrate.

And then I have to

use this for the heart.

And I have to use this

for blood pressure.

And it's just on

and on and on.

The doctors are telling me this is

what I gotta do for my whole life.

And it's frustrating

and very stressful.

And I don't know how long my liver

is gonna last taking all this stuff.

Under conventional medical treatment,

whether it be for autoimmune disease

or even conditions like high

blood pressure or, diabetes,

you're told that

you have to take drugs.

And not just for a week

or a month or, a year,

you're told you have

to take drugs forever.

You're guaranteed that if you

follow your doctor's advice,

you'll be sick forever.

You'll never get well.

That's the guarantee.

Because the strategies are all

about manipulating the symptoms,

not dealing with

the underlying cause.

You come in with that diagnosis,

you get a bunch of pills

that have nothing to do

with the disease causation.

Or you get these procedures that have

nothing to do with disease causation.

It's a deception to say

this pill will help you

unclog your arteries, this one will

save you from a stroke, no, it doesn't.

The people who take

the statins, et cetera,

they still get their heart attacks,

they still get their strokes.

This does not reverse disease.

This does not make plaque smaller.

This is a front

of massive proportions.

[Kip] In the US, treating chronic disease,

such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes

is a $1.5 trillion industry.

That's the GDP equivalent of the

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