You know all that sugary cereal that millions of Americans eat every day, well,
it's not exactly healthy, but thanks to a loophole in FDA regulations, they can still be labeled is
really healthy, good for consumers, good for your children, good for your health. And now the FDA
wants to change that. Some of the biggest cereal makers are spending millions of dollars to make
sure that they can call it healthy. Pick it up. This is a truly bizarre story because it's not
something people would typically think about. Like, what do we care about cereal? Well, we're
lying to consumers is what these cereal companies want to continue to do. They're going to the FDA,
they're spending millions on lobbyists to tell them we've gotta be able to lie because if we
can't slap that healthy label on, I mean, look how brightly colored the sugar is, then we can't sell
it. And we're talking about cereals that typically studies have shown children do, you know, double
the serving size, which means they're getting as much sugar for breakfast. It's the equivalent of
eating just a Snickers bar for breakfast. Okay. So, so here's their argument. Well
first of all, the craziest argument is, you know what constitutionally, we have a right to lie.
We can lie to consumers. It's our constitutional right to lie to consumers. Yes, we are lying to
consumers and it's okay and you can't change that. That's the first argument. The second argument is,
you know what, we're really doing this for the American public because poverty stricken people,
they wanna make it more affordable and accessible for people who can't afford a lot. So give this
to the kids, let 'em fill up on sugar, send 'em off to school and everything's gonna be okay.
Some of it falls on the parents, right? I mean, some of this really does fall on the parent. A
parent reads this, Fruity Pebbles. I mean, Lucky Charms. Don't you say, well there's, you know,
probably some sugar here? Don't you at least check that out? But the problem is they're selling it
as a healthy, safe product for your children. Yeah. And look, there's some vitamins in there,
you know, they do pack it in there. But it's the sugar that of course is the problem. I mean,
diabetes is an epidemic here in the United States and these cereals sure as heck aren't helping
that. And to argue that, you know, as a, you know, producer, you have the right to lie. That's
no different than a car manufacturer saying, listen, there's a good chance this car could fly.
Yeah. I mean,
maybe you wanna buy it because it could fly. And constitutionally we can lie to you.
Right. So try to fly
it and if it doesn't work, we're still okay. You just gotta go really fast off that cliff.
It'll fly for a little bit. Yeah.
But that's where we're at. And these, unfortunately these manufacturers, you're talking
about Post, General Mills, Kelloggs, they've got a good chance at being
successful here because they've successfully avoided this loophole closing in the past.
The real ugly part of this are the freaks that are doing this for them. Talk about, it's this really
shady kind of PR group. They were the same people that argued on behalf of the Oxycontin industry.
Yeah. Saying, oh,
this is, you know, you don't have any problems with this. This is not gonna be something that's
addictive. These are the same people that the cereal industry, they take 'em. Okay. The Oxy,
the Oxy experience killed 150 people a day for what, two decades. Now let's talk about this
because we wanna make your little seven year old Freddy into a sumo wrestler. We don't care if he's
morbidly fat. We don't care if he gets diabetes because it's our right to lie if we wanna lie.
Yeah. It's this group, it's called the Washington Legal Foundation,
which sounds like a very, oh, well, they, Legal Foundation. Of course they're good.
Yeah. No. What it is, is really just a lobbyist
organization. Like you said, they fought on behalf of the opioid manufacturers. They've done
all kinds of things with the corn refiners. You know, sugar, sugar, sugar, pills, pills, pills.
Yeah. That is what this group
does to make sure we keep those on our streets. But don't you see the connection here? How,
how it's almost dark humor. This is this, this creepy Washington organization works in the dark.
They worked in the dark on Oxycontin knowing that they were, that 150 people a day were dying from
Oxycontin. Now let's move over to little seven year old fat Freddy who's eating two bowls of
this every morning and then off to school and he ends up with diabetes, he ends up morbidly fat.
And what are you gonna do about that? It's our right to do it. We, we have a right to do that.
Yeah. It, it's truly disgusting. Even just from the humanitarian aspect of it, you know,
you like to talk about it this time, this all the time, excuse me. These people go home from
work and they sit down and the kids are, how was your day at work? Oh, it's great. I fought to
make sure that poor people become morbidly obese and end up with health problems later in life.
Yeah. In other words, you're talking about the people that work for this organization.
Yeah. That's your good day, right?
I had a success today. We're gonna have more little fat Freddy's around, seven year old sumo
wrestlers. We're gonna create a whole generation because we're gonna sell Lucky Charms and Fruity
Pebbles. And you know what? We're gonna argue we have a constitutional right to lie to the American
public to do it. That's that story, isn't it? It is.