The Highwire with Del Bigtree - A HISTORIC DAY FOR HEALTH

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

This week, Sen. Ron Johnson hosted a roundtable discussion on American Health and Nutrition for a packed house in D.C. with some of the most powerful voices in the health and wellness field. See just a small portion of the live streamed event that has now gone viral.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

The beginning of 2017, we started the High Wire and our nonprofit, the Informed Consent Action Network, just at the end of 2016, with the goal of ending manmade disease. And we were just this tiny little show in a box in Hollywood and slowly our following increased. And this goal started to be on the mouths of more and more people. I would say this week, I don't know if you can feel it wherever you are in the world. But the world is changing. There is a revolution taking place. And I think that was exemplified more than ever by the Senator Ron Johnson hearings on health and nutrition, a second opinion.

If you did not see the live stream, which is currently going viral everywhere, thousands of clips from that live stream are being shared all across the Internet because this is truly the most important conversation happening in America right now. and it descended upon Washington, D.C. This is just a little excerpt from what that incredible event was like. The purpose of today's event is to ask questions we haven't been allowed to ask. To provide a foundational and historical understanding of the changes that have occurred over the last century

within public sanitation, agriculture, food processing, and health care industries that impact our current state of national health. Most people don't know that what they're consuming is making them sick. They know junk food is bad, but they don't realize it's causing chronic disease. And neither do their health care providers. The next generation of children is predicted to not outlive their parents if we continue on the trajectory that we are currently on. When in human history has that ever been the case? The country is getting sicker.

We cannot keep going down this path. We have the most over-medicated sickest population in the world. And no one is talking about the root causes. During the time that we've been given to speak with you today, roughly 800 people will die of an obesity-related disease that was completely preventable. Where's the outrage? Where is the outrage? American health is getting destroyed.

It's being destroyed because of chronic illness. And if the current trends continue, we're going to be looking at a genocidal level, health collapse in our country and the world. What happens to a doctor who puts their patient first and tries to practice outside the guideline? Well, increasingly now we have a misinformation police, although the greatest perpetrator of misinformation has been the United States government with the food pyramid. Just look at the most recent food pyramid that was released. Lucky Trump cereals is ranked higher than ground beef. Consequently, 95% of the USDA dietary guidelines advisory committee in 2020 was found of conflict of

interest with big food and big pharma. Nine out of 10 killers of Americans, 90% of medical costs are from a weaponized food system. It's not that complicated. When I say weaponized, I mean that literally. You have the best scientists in the world creating this food to be palatable and to be addictive. This box of fruit loops is from Canada. It's colored naturally with watermelon, blueberry, and carrot juice. This is the U.S. version.

It contains four. four different artificial food dyes with the preservative BHT, which is an endocrine disrupting chemical linked in cancer. This is the Canadian version. This is the brightness of the Canadian version, and this is the brightness of artificial food dies. American food companies are selling the same exact products overseas without these chemicals, but choose to continue serving us the most toxic version here.

It's un-American. These compounds are laced into the very food-like products that line our grocery store shelves, and yet they remain under-discussed in public health conversations. In fact, legitimately concerned families are gaslit again and again reminded that, quote, everything is a chemical. All this adds up to the fact that today we are not simply living longer, we are dying longer. 85% of the food that you are consuming started from a patented seed sold by a chemical corporation that was responsible for creating Agent Orange in the Vietnam War.

Why are chemical companies feeding America? In medical school, I didn't learn that 95% of the people who created the recent USDA Food Guidelines for America had significant complies of interest with the food industry. I did not learn that one billion pounds of synthetic pesticides are being sprayed on our food every single year. 99% of the farmland in the United States. The medical education community is largely controlled by pharmaceutical companies. One and a half billion dollars every year goes to support physician education.

That's from pharmaceutical companies, one and a half billion from pharmaceutical companies. If a foreign nation did this to our country, we would consider an act of war. It is on America. These companies have been allowed through the profit motive to destroy everything that we value in America. Nutrition and mental health research are severely underfunded, with each of them getting less than 5% of the NIH budget. This is no accident. This is the concerted effort of lobbying by industry, food manufacturers, the healthcare industry. They do not want root causes discovered.

Why don't our federal health agencies seem to have any curiosity whatsoever? I mean, I see Del Bigtree here who's done so much fabulous work and trying to raise public awareness. For the last 50 years, we have been running the largest uncontrolled science experiment ever done on humanity without their consent. Why should America, the greatest country on earth, be the last developed nation to protect its people? I just wanted to tell you, I am immersed in your world right now. I'm so happy you're here delivering this message and I hope it's listened to all over the halls of Congress and I hope to do my part when we get a chance to help that happen. We're not a naturally divided people and if we can use this as the example and move us forward,

not only can we tackle this incredibly important problem and solve it, but in focusing on doing that in a completely nonpartisan way. What we are dealing with here is so much more than a physical health crisis. This is a spiritual crisis. We are choosing death over life. We are choosing darkness over light for people and the planet, which are inextricably linked. We're having a spiritual crisis right now, and that partially entails the fact that we've lost our North Star. We have a over-reliance on scientific studies at the expense of common sense. We don't need 10 years of clinical-controlled studies to know that we shouldn't have plastic in our brains. This is not a

Republican issue. This is not a Democrat issue. This is a humanity issue. If we really, truly want to address the chronic disease crisis in this country, we have to start by preventing these diseases from occurring in the first place. Our path out will be a renewed respect for the miracle of life and are renewed respect for nature. The powers that be are simply too powerful for us to take on alone. I implore the people here that shape the policy to take a stand. The buck must stop with you. Because if this current trend is allowed to persist, the stakes will be untenable.

We are in the middle of an extinction level event. And I am really hopeful that by raising issues and letting people know about this health crisis that maybe we will get answers quickly. The FDA is asleep at the wheel. They've admitted they're not capable of regulating all these chemicals in our food, and the food companies are using the lack of regulation to their advantage. We demand accountability for how the millennial generation was turned into a science experiment without our informed consent for the sake of enriching big pharma, big ag, and big food. We need to fearlessly get back to science and start just asking and answering basic questions.

Is glyphosate safe? Are these food coloring safe? Is it appropriate to give a child a shot three hours into life for an STD? Take off the blinders and look deeper, into ourselves, into our institutions, because we have a real opportunity to affect meaningful change. We can take our country back from these industries.

Most important of all, we can begin restoring our children's health. I just want to thank all. the panelists for all you've done in the past, you've made a difference. You've helped improve, if not save people's lives. Thank you for doing that. Once again, I just want to thank Senator Ron Johnson, who is just a groundbreaking pioneer for medical health and freedom in this country. If you've been watching the highway, we've been streaming these incredible events, these roundtable events that Senator Johnson's been having. Of course, the other ones dealing with the COVID pandemic.

Ultimately, he's gotten into vaccinations, even the childhood vaccine program. I've been a part of all those. This week, it was about the food industry, really, and all the toxic chemicals that are poisoning us. We are the sickest nation in the industrialized world. This is the sickest generation of children we've ever seen in America. And for anyone that thinks that, well, there's other issues. we've got to worry about war or those, you know, whatever you think is the ultimate issue for America, I don't see and what was represented. How is it more important than the health of our kids? By the way, even if you want to think about war and protecting this country,

they're now saying that over 70% of Americans cannot pass the tests to get into the military because they are so sick. Over 50% have chronic illness now in this country. diabetes and of course obesity, massive parts of this issue. And the question ends up being, is it really that suddenly all of a sudden the late or the early 1990s, late 1980s, did we suddenly just get so lazy that we didn't care about our health that we'd sudden obesity exploded or was it all these endocrine disrupting chemicals and dyes and food substitutes additives that are in our food?

That was the conversation going on. And clearly, obviously, this is a conversation that is much easier for a lot of people to have than the vaccine issue, which is identical. It's all the same problem with regulatory capture. But this time, at this hearing, the room was packed. In fact, I stepped out for one moment and there was a line out the door. They were so, they were beyond capacity. And they asked you, when you're leaving, are you going to stay out because there's other people that would like to take your seat? That's how incredible this hearing was.

And to give you just a sense of what one of our biggest problems is, how about the media that has been on the sidelines, not reporting like the Highwire has all of these years, that these are real issues that are going on. Look at the Atlantic's headline said about this hearing. The Woo Woo Caucus Meets. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appearance at a health and nutrition event hosted by a Trump ally showcased the congruence of crunchy and cranky.

Elaine Godfrey. Elaine, oh my God. How pathetic. I mean, how anyone could sit in that room. Woo-woo? The fact that we're being poisoned with chemicals that have never been properly safety-tested, chemicals that don't exist in food in Europe, literally banned in every other nation that is not as sick as we are,

but it's woo-woo to talk about the fact that we actually want our regulatory agencies to protect us. You know, may these people be forgiven by God. in their final days. These reporters that should have been holding our government's feet to the fire instead are clearly shills for the very industries that are poisoning us. Elaine, I don't know why you want to poison children. Do not know who's paying you, but you are a disgrace to journalism.