How Big Pharma and Food Ads Control Your Health
00:00:00.000 | 60% of mainstream media funding
00:00:02.080 | comes from pharmaceutical companies.
00:00:03.580 | So of course, we're seeing tons of ads
00:00:05.880 | that sort of create this insidious culture
00:00:09.180 | in our country that, like, medications are the answer
00:00:11.120 | for all health problems.
00:00:12.520 | And medications can be very valuable,
00:00:14.420 | but what that does is it kind of, like,
00:00:16.120 | subverts our attention away from more, like,
00:00:18.460 | natural mechanism of healing towards pharmaceuticals.
00:00:21.920 | That's not legal in most other countries in the world.
00:00:25.000 | The spend that goes towards ad on a children's network
00:00:27.600 | like Nickelodeon is from ultra-processed foods.
00:00:29.460 | That's not allowed virtually anywhere else in the world.
00:00:32.540 | We have federal agencies in the U.S., like the FDA,
00:00:35.940 | where 75% of their budget
00:00:38.840 | is coming from the pharmaceutical industry.
00:00:40.540 | Not to mention, there's dozens and dozens
00:00:43.220 | of chemicals allowed on our food and in our food in the U.S.
00:00:45.820 | that are just straight-up banned in the EU.