Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dan Walkins, thank you very much. We are
Speaker 1: going to change topics. And there was a news conference yesterday,
Speaker 1: UH in Washington, which I want to catch you up
Speaker 1: on because I think it's really important. Eight artificial dies
Speaker 1: that are that have been used in our foods, in
Speaker 1: candy and ice cream and soft drinks in jams are
Speaker 1: by the end of next year, will be eliminated, uh,
Speaker 1: from not only food supply but also medications. These artificial
Speaker 1: dies were being in Europe, I guess, many many years ago. UH.
Speaker 1: And the statistics that Robert F. Kennedy Junior sites, and
Speaker 1: I assume they're accurate, shows that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: diseases that we're particularly young kids, are dealing with here
Speaker 1: in America that either don't exist or exist in the
Speaker 1: smallest amounts in Europe. Even though obviously our diet is
Speaker 1: fairly close to what the you know, diet of most
Speaker 1: European countries are. This news conference was yesterday, and these
Speaker 1: dyes have no value other than I guess, providing coloration
Speaker 1: to foods that we eat. Now. Look, I love fruits
Speaker 1: and vegetables like all of you do. And I assume
Speaker 1: that fruits and vegetables that we eat have natural color.
Speaker 1: Apples tend to be red depending upon the type. Obviously oranges.
Speaker 1: I mean, no one's painting the peel of an orange.
Speaker 1: I had an orange today. Lovely bananas. They their natural
Speaker 1: color is yellow. We're not talking about that, but we're
Speaker 1: talking about are these dyes and they head like these.
Speaker 1: I guess FD plus C stands for food dye plus
Speaker 1: color blue number one and two. There's a green number three,
Speaker 1: a red four, D red forty excuse me, a yellow
Speaker 1: five and six. And in the coming months, the process
Speaker 1: will begin to reduce authorization of orange B citrus red
Speaker 1: number two. So this is used by these companies when
Speaker 1: they want to make food. And I guess that a
Speaker 1: lot of them are in cereals. Okay, and we've been
Speaker 1: eating this junk for years, for years. We have some
Speaker 1: sound here. This is FDA Commissioner doctor Marty mcmaccuarie, McCurry McCarey.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, he's been a guest on this show. He
Speaker 1: is a transplant surgeon, actually the head of the transplant
Speaker 1: surgeon team at Johns Hopkins. So we're talking about some
Speaker 1: pretty legitimate people. This was his comment. Yes, these are
Speaker 1: called synthetic petroleum based food dies cut twenty seven. Please Rob,
Speaker 1: This is doctor mckein.
Speaker 2: Today, the FDA is taking the following steps. Number one,
Speaker 2: establishing a national standard and timeline for the food industry
Speaker 2: to transition from petroleum based food dyes to natural alternatives.
Speaker 2: Number two, initiating a process to revoke authorization of synthetic
Speaker 2: food colorings, including those not in production, namely citrus red
Speaker 2: number two and orange B within the coming weeks. Number three,
Speaker 2: taking steps to eliminate the remaining six synthetic dies on
Speaker 2: the market from the US food supply, specifically red dye
Speaker 2: number forty, yellow dye number five, Yellow dye number six,
Speaker 2: Blue die number one, Blue die number two, and Green
Speaker 2: dye number three by the end of next year.
Speaker 1: Doctor mccairy went on to talk about this as a
Speaker 1: political issue. It's not a Republican or a Democratic or
Speaker 1: an independent issue. Moms across America have been talking about
Speaker 1: this for a long time, and ironically, ironically, finally it
Speaker 1: is the Health and Human Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior
Speaker 1: in the administration of Donald Trump who is taking this
Speaker 1: action against these companies. This is cut number thirty. And
Speaker 1: this is a very important point that McCarry makes.
Speaker 2: If we can get beyond the tribalism in our society
Speaker 2: rampant in our culture, we will realize that we all
Speaker 2: want the same things. Republican, Democrat and independent moms showed
Speaker 2: up in high numbers to vote for President Trump on
Speaker 2: this very issue that Secretary Kennedy has championed. Moms across
Speaker 2: America have spoken and they want more honesty and humility
Speaker 2: from our nation's healthcare leaders.
Speaker 1: I think of all these people who have been in
Speaker 1: these positions, Republicans and Democrats for years. Look, it's too
Speaker 1: late for people like me. I grew up eating this junk.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're over the age of thirty five,
Speaker 1: you grew up eating this junk. But thank God, finally
Speaker 1: this junk is going to be taken away from the
Speaker 1: diet of our children and our grandchildren.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 1: Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy. Let me just again,
Speaker 1: he gets a lot, he gets I think all the
Speaker 1: credit of this. Let's play cut twenty six, please, Rob.
Speaker 4: There's shockingly few studies even on food dies and on
Speaker 4: all these other industries, all these other ingredients as well,
Speaker 4: and Jay Bodichara, who is here and who was running
Speaker 4: on the director of Niage, is now narrowly targeting He's
Speaker 4: kind of food out added EBS or scientific study. One
Speaker 4: by one, we can start eliminating with them where they can,
Speaker 4: where we can't. There's things that will never be able
Speaker 4: to eliminate, like sugar, and sugar is poison and Americans
Speaker 4: need to know that it is poisoning us.
Speaker 1: So I just think, I'm I'm very happy, and I
Speaker 1: don't care if this was done by the Biden administration
Speaker 1: or Trump forty five or Obama or Bush or whomever.
Speaker 1: It should have been done years ago. So I say
Speaker 1: hats off to RFK Junior, and hats off to doctor
Speaker 1: McCarey uh and and hats off to Donald Trump on this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that a lot of companies, big companies, you know,
Speaker 1: the serial manufacturers, the candy makers. Look, you know, if
Speaker 1: if if that food, if that, why would you put
Speaker 1: anything to change the color of something? We ingest if
Speaker 1: it has no value other than to change the color,
Speaker 1: they do it so they sell the product. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty
Speaker 1: six one seven nine three one ten thirty This is
Speaker 1: one issue that Republicans, Democrats, independence, liberals and conservatives, progressives
Speaker 1: and libertarians should be able to come together on. If
Speaker 1: we can't come together on this issue, then we're hopeless
Speaker 1: as a nation. Let's come together and let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: If you want to identify what part of the political
Speaker 1: spectrum of you're on. But this is one that should
Speaker 1: be celebrated by everyone. This junk never should have been
Speaker 1: introduced to our foods in the first place. It was.
Speaker 1: It was introduced, and the regulators stayed asleep, and they
Speaker 1: were only been woken up in the last few weeks
Speaker 1: by Bobby Kennedy, Junior, doctor McCarey and Yes, President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump coming back on Nightside. If you're on Night Side
Speaker 1: with Dan Ray on wz Boston's news radio. All right,
Speaker 1: let's keep rolling here, going to go to Sheldon in Sharon, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Sheldon gonna start us off talking about red dyes. Go ahead, Sheldon,
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 5: Some ancient information for you from the nineteen seventies when
Speaker 5: I worked at Cheeseboro Ponds, I was told that red
Speaker 5: GUYE number six was only acceptable for use on Maraschino cherries.
Speaker 6: My thoughts on that was it?
Speaker 5: Probably people don't eat very much Marischino cherries, so it
Speaker 5: was okay.
Speaker 1: So why would they have to put a cherry is
Speaker 1: going to be read naturally correct?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: So why would they have to or want to put?
Speaker 6: I don't know?
Speaker 1: And what was the company you.
Speaker 6: Were working for, Cheeseborow Ponds?
Speaker 1: What did they make? Are they still in business? Are
Speaker 1: they a cheese company or something? Or what are they?
Speaker 6: No? No, Cheeseborow is somebody's last name, the chemist's last name?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, they still I've never heard of them, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Are they still in business?
Speaker 6: You heard of Q tips?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Q Tips baby Gays was there since they made uh tender?
Speaker 1: Okay? So so okay, so so help help me out here.
Speaker 1: I've just never heard of them. Where they located? I'm
Speaker 1: just curious, Sheldon.
Speaker 6: They were in Trouble, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I know trouble. Yeah, okay, okay, so they're
Speaker 1: they're they no longer. They've been absorbed by one of
Speaker 1: the bigger companies, Eli Lilly, Okay, I got it, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. I wish I knew everything that every
Speaker 1: caller knows, but I'm always, i mean incessantly curious when
Speaker 1: someone mentions to me something like that. But so they
Speaker 1: were dealing with cherries, and they were adding a red
Speaker 1: dye to a cherry to make it more appealing.
Speaker 6: I don't get that some.
Speaker 1: I guess, but and well, look, apples come off of trees,
Speaker 1: and some of them are are perfectly shaped red apples.
Speaker 1: Some of them are a little arc differently shaped. What
Speaker 1: are we supposed to do? Pound these apples and make
Speaker 1: them all the same color? You know, this, this whole
Speaker 1: idea of this, this whole idea just bothers me. That's all. Well, Sheldon,
Speaker 1: I hope that you welcome this as much as I do. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that laugh, but that's okay. He
Speaker 1: beg you, Sheldon. Appreciate you taking the time to call.
Speaker 1: Have a great one, good night.
Speaker 6: I have some questions for you.
Speaker 1: Laugh by call anytime. Thanks, Sheldon. Let me go to
Speaker 1: Lola down over across the country in San Diego. Lola,
Speaker 1: I suspect that I suspect this is something you've been
Speaker 1: concerned about, knowing you a little bit for a long time.
Speaker 7: Yes, So it's not just the red dye in the
Speaker 7: food and in the cereal, I meat Okay, so let
Speaker 7: me start off saying, allegedly, and in my opinion, the
Speaker 7: meat has dye in it, the red meat, the ground beeft,
Speaker 7: there's red dye in there. What about your toothpaste crest?
Speaker 7: I think it's crest, it's red, white, and green. Where
Speaker 7: are colors coming from?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's all great points.
Speaker 7: Okay, yes, yes, okay. And then then I just read
Speaker 7: that the dyes that are used in tattoos they are
Speaker 7: not approved by the FDA and they could possibly potentially
Speaker 7: have lead in them. Yeah, and what about the hair
Speaker 7: dyes that people are putting red hair? You know, you
Speaker 7: got to bleach your hair out if you have doc here,
Speaker 7: and then these dyes, these colors go in here, blue, purple,
Speaker 7: It goes on and on and on. We shouldn't be
Speaker 7: eating any food that has any coloring of any kind
Speaker 7: unless it comes from beats. Beats a red. So you know,
Speaker 7: if you eat a beat and drop it on your shirt,
Speaker 7: your shirt turns red.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I love beets, by the way, they want,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Right, Raspberries are another thing that will stay so natural
Speaker 7: colors coming from food, that's the way to go. But
Speaker 7: you know, call me crazy. But you know, I'm I
Speaker 7: live in California now and I'm you know, the land
Speaker 7: of fruits and nuts.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're crazy at all. I think you've
Speaker 1: been on top of this stuff for a long time
Speaker 1: as always.
Speaker 3: Lol.
Speaker 1: I so appreciate you your loyalty to this program. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Thank you for taking my Thanks very much.
Speaker 1: So we go next to Robin and Wellesley. Robert, you're
Speaker 1: gonna maybe end the hour. We'll get to Jennifer right
Speaker 1: on the other side of the eleven o'clock news.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Robert, Okay, thanks for bringing up this this topic.
Speaker 8: And I suspect that the food coloring has been cheap,
Speaker 8: cheaper than natural coloring is convenience for the manufacturer, and
Speaker 8: I certainly think it should be removed and replaced by
Speaker 8: natural alternatives, and such as the ones that your previous
Speaker 8: color suggested. It's they're not they're not worth the risk.
Speaker 8: And my gut feeling is they're not worth the risk.
Speaker 8: And red meat does have coloring, but it's sodium nitrite.
Speaker 8: You may have heard of it, which he is a
Speaker 8: which isn't a an a fender that's been used for
Speaker 8: years to keep to give meat a red color, and
Speaker 8: it reacts with the the stomach acid to form nitrosa means,
Speaker 8: which are percentogens.
Speaker 3: So that's what you're for.
Speaker 1: But let me just make a comment here if I can,
Speaker 1: And again I'm not trying to interrupt you, but look,
Speaker 1: we've learned that a lot of meat in our diet
Speaker 1: is not a good thing. Now again, you and I
Speaker 1: are both on the wrong side of fifty. So at
Speaker 1: this point, whatever we've ingested and digested over our lifetimes,
Speaker 1: that's done damage or whatever it's done to all of
Speaker 1: our internals. Okay, but for young people, if the purpose
Speaker 1: of the red dye that was ejected into the meat
Speaker 1: was to make the meat more attractive or palatable, that's
Speaker 1: wrong for two reasons. If they're making something more attractive
Speaker 1: or palatable to eat, and it's at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, something that's not good to eat a lot of.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's much better to eat chicken and fish
Speaker 1: than it is to eat meat. So not only are
Speaker 1: they deceiving us about the real color of the product,
Speaker 1: but they're also inducing us to eat more of a
Speaker 1: product that if you eat a lot of this meat
Speaker 1: and the events gonna come back and hurt you. Am
Speaker 1: I right on that or wrong in your opinion.
Speaker 3: You're saying, but don't give up on adults and the elderly,
Speaker 3: because there's hope for us too, and especially in the
Speaker 3: case of nitrustle meanings, because I first can have a
Speaker 3: failure media effect. So it's good to get those out
Speaker 3: and hopefully you'll be on the agenda at some point.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, It's like, look, if I have a
Speaker 1: friend of mine who's ninety years old and says they
Speaker 1: want to start to exercise a little bit to get
Speaker 1: some muscle tone, of course you do that, but realistically,
Speaker 1: you get to a certain age and whatever damage has
Speaker 1: been done. I'm thinking about my children and my grandchild
Speaker 1: Grood children, That's what I'm thinking about, and keep that
Speaker 1: lap out of there, out of their diets, and maybe
Speaker 1: they won't deal with a lot of these issues that
Speaker 1: we seem to have come up with in recent years. Robert,
Speaker 1: I got you in before the news, so I got
Speaker 1: to let you go. But as all always appreciate your
Speaker 1: loyalty to Night's side. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All Right, we are going to continue on this. I
Speaker 1: want to celebrate this, I really do, and let's give
Speaker 1: credit where credit is due all the politicians who have
Speaker 1: been there forever. Okay uh, it took our FK Junior,
Speaker 1: a doctor named Marty McCarey, and Donald Trump in his
Speaker 1: second administration to accomplish this. You have the numbers, give
Speaker 1: us a call. We'll be right back after eleven o'clock news.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this because this is really important,
Speaker 1: particularly if you have kids or grandkids coming back on
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