Regulated Garbage: The Problem with Processed Foods

I was driving behind this truck the other day, and it had a sign on it that said regulated garbage. And I just, I can’t recall ever having seen a sign like that, or those two words put together. And it just struck me like that’s really interesting. I I made a note of it, and I was thinking, what is regulated garbage? And then your imagination kind of kicks in. You’re like, well, there’s so many things that are regulated garbage politics that’s kind of like regulated garbage media, sort of like regulated garbage. Garbage is probably regulated garbage. Just regulations on everything. It just kind of struck me. There’s so many just an interesting two words that are put together that I’d never really noticed before. So I was curious about what what actually is regulated garbage. And turns out it’s from the USDA, which is the United States Department of Agriculture. And as of May 30, 2024, regulated garbage is garbage is being regulated, or has been regulated, to protect agriculture and our natural resources from the introduction and spread of plant and an of and plant and animal animal pests and diseases. So makes sense. We want to protect ourselves domestically from that kind of thing, but also from vessels coming in from the ocean, from airplanes outside of the United States, except Canada, apparently. So there are just rules around garbage being moved around, animals, plants, that kind of stuff don’t make sense. You would want to ensure that we don’t contaminate ourselves or other people don’t contaminate ourselves via garbage. You don’t want to introduce something into your ecosystem that could damage it, that could contaminate that could hurt, cause harm to it. Think invasive species. You familiar with that? I grew up in northern Minnesota, right on Lake Superior, and we were always struggling with invasive species of like mollusks and just all kinds of lamprey and all different kinds of things that would be brought in from the ships that came all the way from the Ocean through the St Lawrence Seaway and then into the Great Lakes and lakes pier and all that. So there’s another example. Makes sense. You want to try to control that being said, what is another example of something that we are introducing into our ecosystems, in this example, our bodies that is extremely harmful, damaging. And if we’re doing it voluntarily, why are we doing that? And if we’re not doing it voluntarily, but it’s happening, why is it happening? Or if it’s happening and we know about it, why is it happening? RFK, Jr, Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr, whatever you think about him, but not really relevant, necessarily, or maybe it’s totally relevant he has is very outspoken on lots of topics, but he is incredibly outspoken and really well versed in the problems of our food system, specifically processed foods, and the impact that processed foods have had on us, have had on our ecosystem, have had on our bodies, and that impact then goes on to touch and impact everything else, because these problems aren’t just isolated. If I become obese and overweight, it’s not only me that is being hurt by this, because then I become a full time user of health interventions. If I have diabetes, I am now a full time client of pharmaceutical companies, but I’ll get into that. And obviously I’m just not healthy. So if this is so plainly happening, and we put such a focus on regulated garbage and everything else, we have regulations for. Everything. Do this, don’t do that. Can’t you read the sign? What are you doing? Yeah, we’re really not paying super close attention to this. Or maybe we are. Maybe somebody is, are, are are you? How close are you paying attention to this? So RFK, Jr, in a really recent public address, he said that one of the most important issues that we are facing is American health care. And it talked about how nearly three fourths of Americans are overweight or obese. Nearly three fourths of Americans are overweight or obese, with 50% of children classified as overweight or obese. Yikes. He then went on to say that 120 years ago, when somebody was obese, they were literally sent to the circus. They were sent to the circus as a curiosity, a freak show. You could Google or search whatever you know the fattest person in the world, world’s fattest man from 100 years ago, and it just looks like somebody you see at the store today, or just walking around. You see them riding scooters around Disney and Walmart and wherever else, everywhere else, there’s a reason that now there’s a whole parking lot for scooters outside of our stores because of the statistics that I just mentioned. But back then, obesity was virtually unknown. Today, like he was just saying, three quarters of adults are overweight or obese half of children. But it’s not just that. It’s not just that obesity and a poor diet or poisoning. A diet that poisons us just doesn’t just make us obese, it contributes to other major chronic issues as well as autism goes on to say that we spend more on health care than any other country on Earth, twice what they pay in Europe. And yet, we have the worst health outcomes of any nation in the world. Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have. How do we reconcile that? Do we spend more on health care than any other country on Earth, twice what they pay on Europe. Yet we have the worst health outcomes. It’s amazing. 20% of children and 40% of adults have obesity. According to the CDC, obesity is defined as having a body mass index of 30 or above. So it goes on to blame Ultra processed foods toxic chemicals as the culprits behind the poor health that’s plaguing so many of us. He argues that processed foods are linked to a variety of health problems, including obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Suggests that there’s so many unhealthy things, like sugar, artificial additives, just so much crap that’s going in. He also contends that we have essentially stripped out all the nutrition from processed foods, so instead of getting the vitamins and the minerals that we need, it’s just empty calories that we’re shoving into our faces that are making us sick and fat. So many chemicals and additives go into these processed foods, you wonder why you can buy something that just stays. You can just keep it in your house for for for years or weeks or months. Whereas, if it was just a regular loaf of bread that you, that you, that you baked you can’t keep that for very long. So we know that this processed foods, chemicals, additives, all this crap has terrible, terrible, terrible consequences to our health. But maybe we don’t know that. Maybe we are trusting that the USDA and the FDA and the CDC and the who, and I’m sure that there’s a dozen other government agencies that I’m missing. So sorry that I’m missing you. I’m leaving you out that ought to be keeping an eye on this stuff, because isn’t that what they’re supposed to be doing? Aren’t these agencies there to protect our health and our well being? Hmm, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. So why is this happening? If everything that he laid out is true, why? Why is this and he argues that these companies have prioritized profit over consumer health,

and that these. Litivate regulatory agencies are failing to actually protect us. So what do you think about that? Were you aware of this? Are you aware of the potential dangers in our food, food that we eat, processed foods, fast foods, all this stuff. Maybe it’s gotten to the point where we’ve forgotten that fast food used to be a slur, and we knew that fast food wasn’t good for you. We knew that maybe we’ve forgotten now it’s just what we do now, going to a gas station and buying lunch at a gas station is just kind of part of the deal of doing drive through. It’s okay. It’s fine. So what we do, I don’t know. What do you think I know this that when I was a kid, he was talking about 120 years ago. Well, when I was a kid, I’m 45 years old. When I was a kid, we had one overweight person in our entire class, maybe in our entire school, and I remember her, not going to say her name, but we all remember her. And if you’re my age or older, you know this to be true. It was one overweight person, not half, not three quarters, one un singular. What’s changed? I don’t know so much. Time Magazine, potentially in response, potentially in response to RFK, bringing this to the forefront, bringing this into presidential campaign, bringing it into presidential politics, Time Magazine releases a story that says, What if Ultra processed foods aren’t as bad as you think? Fu f u, Time Magazine,

regulated garbage media, big media companies, legacy media, corporate media, regulated garbage absolutely regulated garbage. Time Magazine, literally, last year, ran an article about the dangers of processed foods. And now, hey, what if Ultra processed foods aren’t as bad as you think? Oh, what about that? What about that? If these just aren’t the death nail for all of these outlets. Time Magazine runs a story like that, what if alt processed foods aren’t as bad as you think? No, they’re worse. What if they’re way worse than you think? So, where does it all come from. Where does all of this come from? If in such a short amount of time, we’ve gone from one person in an entire ecosystem being overweight to three quarters being overweight when our grocery stores are overrun with processed foods, what’s the cause? What’s the culprit of this regulated garbage? Show me the money. Show me the money. Show me the money. Yeah, yeah. You’re curious what the motivations are. If you’re curious why things are the way they are, follow the money. Follow the money. I wonder, does big food does the ultra processed food industry? Do they spend any money lobbying our elected officials on Capitol Hill? Oh, turns out they spend the most shocking, shocking. They spend the most on lobbying, $1.15 billion that can’t be true, they can’t spend more than gambling, can they? They sure can. Gambling spent $817 million they’ve had a big couple of years. What about tobacco? 755 million What about booze? $541 million said, is that? Is that? It is that where we should stop following the money? No, no, no, there’s more money to be made here. Top pharmaceutical companies based on global anti diabetic revenue, $13.7 billion in 2017 I bet that number’s bigger today, just like we’re bigger today. I. Who else, who else could be interested in this? Who else can be helping? Who else could be helping to address this giant, I keep these just it just pours out of me, this gigantic, this colossal problem. What about zeppek? What about welgovi? Goldman? Sachs predicts that these drugs could boost the US economy by a trillion dollars in a couple years. So now it all makes sense. Now it all makes sense greed. They do not give an F about you, they do not give an F about you. In fact, they don’t want you to be dead, but they want you to be pretty close to being dead. They want you to be so sick that you’re still functional, not sick enough to die, but just sick enough to continue taking their drugs. And now they want Medicare to pay for this too. Of course they do. Of course. They want Medicare to pay for the obesity treatments and the weight loss drugs. So big food wants that lobbyists want that lawyers want that, everybody wants it regulated garbage. What a great term. What a great term. That’s what big food probably has always been, what Pharma is, it’s Washington is. So I’m not advocating for any particular diet, not saying that you should be a vegetarian, a vegan. You should go keto, you should do paleo, you should do carnivore. You should do South Beach diet, Atkins diet, blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah. What I am doing is advocating that you don’t effing kill yourself and your loved ones by ingesting toxic toxic chemicals and toxic foods and additives, because that’s what we’re doing. You want to kill yourself, I guess go for it. I’m not happy about it, because I’m paying for it as a taxpayer. You eating yourself into oblivion and then pumping yourself full of drugs so you can continue eating yourself into oblivion. Is costing me money, probably bankrupting our country. I don’t like that, but oh well, the Libertarian me says you do you, but I don’t want you to kill your kids. Can we all agree that killing your kids is bad. Oh, well, I guess we can’t do that either. Darn it. Darn it, unregulated garbage. I what I want, what I want is for everyone to get what they want, to lead happy and healthy lives, to be strong enough to to enjoy life. Life is short, and it’s less good when we’re sick, it’s less good when we’re fat, it’s less good when we don’t feel well. And I don’t know about you, but you know, you might feel good for a minute when you put that stuff in your mouth, you put processed food in your mouth, but then you feel like crap. You’re depressed, you don’t feel good, you can’t move, you can’t exercise, you can’t play, you can’t do the things that you want, and you’re not going to live as long. You’re reducing both your lifespan and your health span and for what, for what? Maybe you’re addicted to food, maybe you’re addicted to convenience, but we make trade offs. So we’re going to pay for this at some point. If you’re your 20s, 30s or 40s, you’re overweight, you’re suffering from this stuff. You have time to turn this around. If you’re in your 50s and above, you might be in trouble. Never too late. I think that you should attempt to turn things around, start leading a healthy lifestyle again, not advocating for a diet, but stop eating processed foods. Eat whole foods, eat vegetables, eat fruits, eat meat. You. Meat and potatoes, eat some eggs, have a salad. Don’t put processed crap on it. Don’t cover it in ranch dressing or anything like that. That’s defeating the purpose. There’s so many wonderful resources out there that are free for developing healthy diets, for doing meal prep, whatever. It’s too expensive. No, it’s not. It is not too expensive to eat healthy. That’s a lie. It’s a fiction. It’s not true. Part of the unregulated garbage that we’re getting from our news sources, legacy media, stuff like that. Just exercise some common sense if you’re eating Big Macs, large fries and a giant coke, you’re killing yourself. Be honest about it. If you’re giving that to your kids, you’re killing your kids. That’s not cool. I want you to be healthy. I want you to be happy. You Deserve both of those things, but like everything else in life, we’re not entitled to it. We need to work at this. We need to educate ourselves and better understand the impact of the food that we’re putting into our bodies, the impact of the of the of the medicine, or the prescription drugs. Maybe that’s the better term. I don’t think any of this is medicine. I think that medicine means that it’s designed to make you healthy. These prescription drugs are not designed to make you healthy. They’re designed to mask the symptoms of the affliction that you are giving to your body, going back to the unregulated or the regulated garbage. The idea was need to keep damaging things out of our ecosystem. And in this example, processed foods are the damaging thing that you are bringing into your ecosystem, your body, that you are bringing into your ecosystem, your home, and that your children are then ingesting. It’s not too late.

Get to Work turning this around. Educate yourself. Create new habits. Create new routines. About how you do these things. It will be hard at first, because we are creatures of habit, and we do things, we follow habits and routines and everything else, but you’re worth it again. One crack at life, make it as good as you can. Want you to be healthy, and I want you to be aware of the greater influences working against us. We’re the product. We know that we’re the product. We’re the product of social media. We’re the product of tech companies. We’re the product of pharmaceutical companies. We are the products of or rather, yeah, I guess. I guess that’s the term. I mean, they’re just using us to make money. That’s not good. So educate yourself. Develop some good habits as always, do your part by doing your best. Do.

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george grombacher 16:00
So if I want my iPhone, and my Tesla and my Bitcoin to work, we need to get the metal out of the ground.

Pierre Leveille 16:07
Absolutely. Without it, we cannot do it.

george grombacher 16:13
Why? Why is there a Why has production been going down.

Pierre Leveille 16:21
Because the large mines that are producing most of the copper in the world, the grades are going down slowly they’re going there, they’re arriving near the end of life. So and of life of mines in general means less production. And in the past, at least 15 years, the exploration expenditure for copper were pretty low, because the price of copper was low. And when the price is low, companies are tending to not invest more so much in exploration, which is what we see today. It’s it’s, it’s not the way to look at it. Because nobody 15 years ago was able to predict that there would be a so massive shortage, or it’s so massive demand coming. But in the past five years, or let’s say since the since 10 years, we have seen that more and more coming. And then the by the time you react start exploring and there’s more money than then ever that is putting in put it in expression at the moment for copper at least. And what we see is that the it takes time, it could take up to 2025 years between the time you find a deposit that it gets in production. So but but the year the time is counted. So it’s it’s very important to so you will see company reopening old mines, what it will push also, which is not bad, it will force to two, it will force to find a it will force to find ways of recalibrating customer, you know the metals, that will be more and more important.

george grombacher 18:07
So finding, okay, so for lack of a better term recycling metals that are just sitting around somewhere extremely important. Yeah. And then going and going back to historic minds that maybe for lack of technology, or just lack of will or reasons, but maybe now because there’s such a demand, there’s an appetite to go back to those.

Pierre Leveille 18:33
Yes, but there will be a lot of failures into that for many reasons. But the ones that will be in that will resume mining it’s just going to be a short term temporary solution. No it’s it’s not going to be you need to find deposit that will that will operate 50 years you know at least it’s 25 to 50 years at least and an old mind that you do in production in general it’s less than 10 years.

george grombacher 19:03
Got it. Oh there we go. Up here. People are ready for your difference making tip What do you have for them

Pierre Leveille 19:14
You mean an investment or

george grombacher 19:17
whatever you’re into, you’ve got so much life experience with raising a family and doing business all over the world and having your kids go to school in Africa so a tip on copper or whatever you’re into.

Pierre Leveille 19:34
But there’s two things I like to see and I was telling my children many times and I always said you know don’t focus on what will bring you specifically money don’t think of Getting Rich. Think of doing what you what you like, what you feel your your your your your, you know you have been born to do so use your most you skills, do what you like, do what you wet well, and good things will happen to you. And I can see them grow in their life. And I can tell you that this is what happens. And sometimes you have setback like I had recently. But if we do things properly, if we do things that we like, and we liked that project, we were very passionate about that project, not only me, all my team, and if we do things properly, if we do things correctly, good things will happen. And we will probably get the project back had to go forward or we will find another big project that will be the launch of a new era. So that’s my most important tip in life. Do what you like, do it with your best scale and do it well and good things will happen.

george grombacher 20:49
Pierre Leveille 21:03
Thank you. I was happy to be with you to today.

george grombacher 21:06
Damn, tell us the websites and where where people can connect and find you.

Pierre Leveille 21:13
The it’s Deep South resources.com. So pretty simple.

george grombacher 21:18
Perfect. Well, if you enjoyed this as much as I did show up here your appreciation and share today’s show with a friend who also appreciate good ideas, go to deep south resources, calm and learn all about what they’re working on and track their progress.

Pierre Leveille 21:32
Thanks. Thanks, have a nice day.

george grombacher 21:36
And until next time, keep fighting the good fight. We’re all in this together.