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Rockefeller's Plan to Poison Americans & the Receipts to PROVE It | America Hijacked EP01 · Man in America Podcast

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Take a look at this. 62%. That's the share of calories that the average American child eats every single day that comes from ultra processed food. It's not a special treat. It's not birthday cake.
• 0:26
  It's not even a conscious choice. 62% ultra processed food every single day. And look, I'm not here to tell you what to feed your kids. I'm not here to tell you what's bad for you. My question is how did this get approved?
• 0:41
  Like, who was in the room? Who decided it was okay to put chemicals? Like, chemicals that are literally banned from cosmetics, banned from going on your skin into the food your child is eating daily. Who signed off on that? When did it change?
• 0:56
  How did this become a norm in America? And what was already in place to make sure that nobody could stop it? Because when you go back and actually look at the history, the documents, the payments, the regulatory decisions, the corporate acquisitions, you don't find a series of mistakes. You find a system built in layers over more than a hundred years, each layer put in place before the next one was even needed. And it sounds bad, and it is.
• 1:21
  But how did it get this bad? So right now I'm gonna show you layer by layer how this operates and by the end you're gonna see that this was not an accident. The pieces are going to start to click and you're gonna see the whole picture and what we can do about it. Welcome to Man in America, a voice of reason in a world gone mad. I'm your host, Seth Hullhouse.
• 1:49
  This is the first episode of my America Hijacked series. It's an investigative history where we connect the dots, specific decisions, specific people, specific money. We're going back to the moments when things change, finding out who decided and why. And that's how we see the bigger plans that have been at work behind the scenes all this time. Alright.
• 2:08
  So episode one, let's start at the very beginning. In 1910, the Flexner Report. So take a look at this. This is the Flexner Report, quote, medical education in The United States and Canada, a report to the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching. So in 1910, a man named Abraham Flexner published a report.
• 2:28
  Now Flexner is not a doctor. He's not a scientist. He has zero medical training. He's just a school teacher from Kentucky, and yet he's commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation funded by John D. Rockefeller to visit a 155 American medical schools and tell the country which ones are legitimate.
• 2:47
  Like, who does that? A school teacher from Kentucky with zero medical background? Let me know where this makes sense. So pull this up for me. This right here is the hundred years after the Flexner Report.
• 2:58
  Okay. This is a list of the summarized changes where it shows that a 155 schools were reduced to 31. So what does Flexner find? So he goes to these schools, and then he decides himself. Again, this is a school teacher with zero medical background.
• 3:13
  And he decides that any school teaching nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, etcetera, is unscientific, that it's quackery and it doesn't deserve funding and doesn't deserve accreditation. And because Rockefeller controlled the accreditation money, within a decade, more than half of all American medical schools closed. Right? More than half gone. What's left?
• 3:38
  Only the schools that Rockefeller funds. These were the ones where the chemical treatment is now the only legitimate answer, where a drug is the answer to every question, a drug is a cure for every problem, where food is never seen as a as a solution or a remedy at all. So look at this right here. So this is the Rockefeller University, a new kind of hospital. So from 1910 forward, no American doctor is trained to look at food as the cause of disease.
• 4:08
  The entire professional class that might have connected what you eat to how you feel was systematically eliminated. So first, before the food supply is restructured, before anything else happens, the watchdog is removed. So there's no one to watch for any crime, and that's how it begins. Every corporate manipulation that follows operates inside the vacuum that Rockefeller created right here in 1910. So that's the first layer.
• 4:34
  So next, I'm gonna show you this. This is the historical timeline of American Heart Association. So now we jump to 1948. The American Heart Association was founded in 1924, and for the first twenty four years, it's basically nothing. It's a small group of cardiologists with almost no budget, no public influence.
• 4:53
  Most Americans don't even know it exists. But then in 1948, Procter and Gamble sponsors a national radio program called truth or consequences. That program raises 1 and a half million dollars for the American Heart Association. Now I want to make sure you understand who Procter and Gamble is at this moment because this is the key thing. They're the makers of Crisco, a hydrogenated vegetable oil that's made from cottonseed, which is an industrial byproduct of soap manufacturing that they've been trying to get Americans to use instead of butter since 1911.
• 5:27
  Right. So the company selling the industrial oil sponsors the fundraiser that turns a tiny group of the card these cardiologists into the most trusted voice on heart health in America. So check this out. This shows the American Heart Association's timeline. In 1961, messaging around avoiding saturated fat, using vegetable oils, etcetera.
• 5:49
  Now what happens right here? So after the launches its very first national public campaigns, the message is avoid saturated fat, avoid butter, avoid lard, use polyunsaturated oils instead, like vegetable oils or Crisco. So there was zero disclosure of P and G's role in this. It looks like it's official health guidance. It looks like it's science.
• 6:12
  It looks like it's your doctor who's telling you this, and the public was completely unaware. The organization Americans Trust to protect their hearts gets its start from the company selling the product that it begins recommending, and nobody knows. That's how it works though, right? You don't buy the science directly, you fund the institution that delivers the science. So when the guidance comes out, it doesn't look purchased, it looks authoritative.
• 6:35
  Now can you see where this is going? Now here, let's look at this. So now we're 1953. So a physiologist at the University of Minnesota named Ancel Keys publishes this graph. Six countries.
• 6:49
  Fat intake is on one axis, heart disease deaths is on the other. So it looks like an almost perfect correlation. It has this very clean line. The conclusion it presents is that fat causes heart disease. It's a very convincing visual.
• 7:03
  But there's a problem. Data existed for more countries, a lot more countries. And when researchers later plotted the full dataset, the relationship completely fell apart, like it just was blown out of the water. I want you to see this. So this is the expanded multi country scatter plot called fat in the diet and mortality from heart disease, a methodological note.
• 7:25
  The clean line only worked if you used the exact six countries that Ansel Key selected. When you add the rest of the data back in, the line disappears. Now at the same time, a British scientist named John Yudkin was building a completely different case, and this is really significant. Yudkin's argument is that sugar, not fat, is what's driving the explosion in heart disease. So take a look at this right here.
• 7:49
  This is the cover of John Yudkin's book Pure, White and Deadly from 1972. Yudkin's data is compelling, his methodology is sound. So what does Ansel Keyes do? He uses the American Heart Association and his connections there, his funding, his access to journals and media, and he goes after Yudkin personally. He calls his work a mountain of nonsense, and he uses every lever he's got to push Yudkin completely out of the conversation, and it works.
• 8:16
  Yudkin is discredited. His books go out of print. His research is buried away from the public for thirty years. And Keyes? Well, he gets on the cover of Time magazine and shapes national dietary policy for a generation.
• 8:29
  He basically becomes the most influential nutrition scientist in American history. Now look at what I found here. This is the 2016 JAMA Internal Medicine paper called Sugar Industry in Coronary Heart Disease Research, a historical analysis of internal industry documents. So now we get to what I think is the single most damning document in this entire story, and it was hidden for fifty years. In 1965, an organization called the Sugar Research Foundation has a problem.
• 9:01
  Evidence is building that sugar might be driving heart disease. The conversation is getting dangerous for them, dangerous for their bottom line. So they go to Harvard. They hire Harvard scientists. They pay each one the equivalent of about $50,000 in today's money, then they hand select which studies these scientists will review, and they give very clear direction on the conclusion that they need.
• 9:21
  So take a look at this. This is the 1967 New England Journal of Medicine paper called Dietary Fats Carbohydrates and Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease. In 1967, that review is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The review downplays every piece of evidence that connects sugar to heart disease. It amplifies every piece of evidence pointing at fat, and there's no disclosure of the funding.
• 9:46
  There's no mention of who was paying for the study. Those original documents, the contracts, the payment records, the written instructions from the Sugar Research Foundation to the Harvard scientists, that was all hidden inside industry archives for fifty years before they were discovered by researchers at UC San Francisco, who then published it in the Journal of Internal Medicine in 2016. And what happened to those paid scientists? Well, one of them, doctor Mark Hegsted, went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, the USDA. Another helped write America's first federal dietary guidelines.
• 10:22
  So, basically, the people paid by the sugar industry to produce a predetermined scientific conclusion became the people who wrote your government's nutrition policy. And here's where we get to the next. Okay. Let's pull this up. This is the food additives amendment of 1958.
• 10:40
  So while all this is happening in the world of dietary science, something equally important is happening in Washington, and this is the part where everything else just clicks. In 1958, the US Congress passes the Food Additives Amendment, and honestly, the intent sounds pretty reasonable. Before any new chemical gets added to American food, it should be tested for safety. That's what we should expect. Right?
• 11:05
  But instead, they build a loophole into it on day one, and they call it GRAS, g r a s, which means generally recognized as safe. The logic they use is that you don't need clinical trials or a full FDA report on things like table salt. Right? Ingredients with a long established history of being safe. Okay.
• 11:25
  That kind of makes sense. But watch what happens to that loophole. Let's look at this. This is the FDA GRAS database. Okay.
• 11:34
  So we're looking at how GRAS notification system was formalized in 1977. So what happened is the FDA formalizes this voluntary GRAS notification system, which basically means a company can now self certify their own new ingredient as safe. They can have their own paid scientists approve it and then put it into your food without notifying the FDA. So here's the 1997 FDA proposed rule. Okay?
• 12:03
  But then here is the 2010 Government Accountability Office report, which says that the FDA should strengthen its oversight of food ingredients determined to be generally recognized as safe. So the Government Accountability Office flagged this in 2010. They said the FDA has no way of knowing how many grass substances are actually in the food supply because companies don't have to tell them. So today, 98 to 99% of new food chemicals enter the market through this pathway. And maybe you'd think that by now people would be wise to it.
• 12:36
  But as recently as 2021, a federal court ruling has confirmed that it's legal. The judge wrote, quote, grass substances are specifically exempted from the rigorous review applicable to food additives, and the FDA has limited resources to allocate to food safety. So right now, an American food company can invent a new chemical, have its own paid scientists say that it's safe, and then put it in your food. Now here's the next layer. This is a New York Times headline.
• 13:10
  Philip Morris to acquire Kraft in 13,100,000,000 deal from October 1988. So now we're getting into the mid eighties, and this is the layer that changes everything. So the tobacco industry can see what's coming for them on the horizon, lawsuits, restrictions. So what do they do? They diversify.
• 13:28
  And so 1985, Philip Morris buys General Foods for 5,600,000,000. Okay? Then RJ Reynolds buys Nabisco for 4,900,000,000, and then in '88, Philip Morris buys Kraft for 13,100,000,000. The Kraft acquisition was, at the time, the largest non oil corporate merger in American history. And by '89, Philip Morris's combined food empire is the largest food company in the world.
• 13:57
  $20,000,000,000 in annual revenue. Like, that's an insane amount. And they bring their entire playbook with them. So here's what you have to understand about tobacco companies. They spent decades studying addiction science at a molecular level.
• 14:11
  They identified what food scientists call the bliss point. It's the precise combination of sugar, salt, and fat that overrides your body's natural signals that make you stop eating, instead it makes you overeat. So they perfected this on all the chemical additives, but then they applied it to your food. So now you need to see this. Peer reviewed research found that during the years that tobacco companies owned these food brands, their products were dramatically more likely to be called what researchers called hyper palatable, meaning scientifically engineered to override your stop signals.
• 14:45
  The same people who figured out how to keep you smoking figured out how to keep you eating. At the same time, another piece is falling into place. So take a look at this here. A man named Duane Andreas, who's the CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, has a product he needs to make profitable, high fructose corn syrup. It's made from government subsidized surplus corn, but for it to compete, real sugar has to be expensive.
• 15:10
  So Andreas spends years lobbying Washington using connections to the Reagan administration, pushing for tariffs and import quotas on foreign sugar. So that works to spike domestic prices, and suddenly, high fructose corn syrup is the cheapest sweetener available. So Coca Cola switches over, so does Pepsi, then basically every major food manufacturer follows suit. So from essentially zero in 1970, high fructose corn syrup becomes a dominant sweetener in the American diet within fifteen years, and it goes into everything. Bread, salad dressings, baby food, yogurt, products you you never even think of it being sweet.
• 15:48
  But now we get the next layer, the food pyramid. In '92, the USDA releases the food pyramid, the one that most of us grew up with, six to 11 servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta at the base, fat at the very top using sparingly. So here's what the USDA doesn't advertise. They withheld the pyramid for a full year in '91 because of pressure from the meat and dairy lobbyists. An internal memo surfaced later showing the USDA pulled the pyramid after industry groups complained.
• 16:20
  Like, we're talking about a document that's supposed to be federal dietary guidance for Americans' children, and it's being held back because of industry pressure. Now I wanna show you something. So Marion Nestle documented this in her book Food Politics. The pyramid's design was directly shaped by industry lobbying. They changed the language, they reorganized the structure to serve the companies whose products sat at the base.
• 16:45
  And who was actually on the committees writing these guidelines anyway? Up to 95% of the USDA dietary guidelines advisory committee members had financial ties to food or pharmaceutical industries. So basically, all of them had a major conflict of interest. The people writing the policy that told your school what to feed your kids were paid by the companies selling the products in the policy. So what happened since then?
• 17:13
  National obesity rates more than doubled. Diabetes tripled. More than half of American adults are now diabetic or pre diabetic. The government told you the food pyramid would make you healthy, but it didn't. What it did was make a handful of industries extraordinarily rich.
• 17:31
  So now we're at layer six, present day. Check this out. This is the MAHA Commission report called Make Our Children Healthy Again. So let's put this whole picture together because these aren't separate stories. I want you to see it as one system, and this is what it looks like when you laid all out.
• 17:46
  1910, Rockefeller removes the doctors who would have noticed the crimes. 1948, P and G funds the institution that becomes the most trusted voice on heart health. 1953, the science gets cherry picked to make fat the villain and protect sugar. 1965, Harvard is paid to put in an institutional stamp on the lie. 1958 and 1997, the legal architecture is built and expanded to let unlimited chemicals into the food supply without review.
• 18:18
  1985 through 1988, tobacco addiction engineers take over food manufacturing. In '92, the government puts it on a poster and calls it a health policy. And now here, look at this. This is a quote from the MAHA Commission in 2025. Over 40 of American children now have at least one chronic health condition.
• 18:40
  This is the sickest generation of American children in terms of chronic disease in our history. The MAHA Commission publishes a report, and I want to read this directly because this is the federal government's own words. Over forty percent of American children now have at least one chronic health condition. This is the sickest generation of American children in terms of chronic disease in our history. It's the government's own words, and it's so sad.
• 19:08
  I want you to see this. This is CDC data that shows that 62% of children's calories come from ultra processed food. It shows that early onset dementia statistics have a three seventy three percent increase in thirty to forty four year olds, and a three eleven percent increase in forty five to fifty four year olds. So sixty two percent of the calories consumed by American children now come from ultra processed food. Early onset dementia is up three seventy three percent in thirty to forty four year olds, you know, three hundred eleven percent in forty five to fifty four year olds.
• 19:47
  And your doctor trained in a Rockefeller funded system that removed nutrition from the curriculum in 1910 has no framework to connect what you're eating to what is happening inside your brain. The food makes you sick. The pharmaceutical industry built on the same petrochemical base as the food additives profits from treating the sickness. The regulatory agencies who are staffed by people who came from those industries and returned to them. The doctors cannot see the connection because they were never trained to, and the science that might expose any of it can be bought and paid for, ghostwritten, and even placed into what is supposed to be peer reviewed journals, and even cited in federal regulatory proceedings as independent evidence.
• 20:33
  It's the same interests, the same money, it's one system. So now you see the big picture. These are documented decisions made by documented people in documented years for documented financial reasons. But all that evidence is not the final conclusion. How much of this is coordinated design?
• 20:51
  Well, you can draw your own conclusion. I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was just showing you what I found when I went back and looked at what happened to us in America. So what do you actually do with all this information? My honest answer is that you can't individually shop your way out of a system this comprehensive.
• 21:08
  The grass loophole covers thousands of ingredients you've never heard of. The chemicals are in the groundwater. The organic farm down the road is getting chemical drift from the industrial farm next to it. But here's what you can do. You can understand the history, so you can stop being confused by a system that was specifically designed to confuse you.
• 21:27
  You can build your own food supply. You can work with others. And I know it sounds like a lot. Trust me. I know because I've done it myself already, and it's not easy.
• 21:36
  And this is just what prepared people do. You can build a pantry the industrial food system can't reach. You can protect your finances. Because the same playbook that captured the food regulatory apparatus is running in your financial system right now. It's the same revolving door, the same captured agencies.
• 21:52
  And you can build real community with real people, because that's the one thing a system can never manufacture or control, real local relationships. Knowing your own farmers, real trust networks, people making informed decisions together. Now tell me what in the comments what stuck out to you most in this timeline. And remember that most of us, and I include myself in this, grew up trusting that somebody was checking, That if it was on the shelf, somebody made sure it was safe. That the food pyramid on the cafeteria wall was built by scientists who had your children's health as their first priority.
• 22:25
  But when you go back and actually look at it, when you actually trace the money in the documents and the decisions, you see that the trust was placed in institutions that have been specifically designed to capture it. Because once you understand how the system was built, you have clarity, not despair. You can stop being surprised by what the system does. And that clarity is real where real change begins, not in Washington, but in your home, in your community, in who you trust, and what you feed your family. So it shows with one person.
• 22:54
  Right? So one person who's still trusting the system that built the problem to then protect them from it and help them see it. Because once you see it, you can't unsee it, and that's where it starts. Make sure you hit that like button. Make sure you subscribe, whatever platform you're watching or listening.
• 23:10
  And I will see you next week for more hidden history.