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Joe Rudolph Esq. takes on “Big Food”

If you live in the United States of America, you make a lot of sacrifices. You pay taxes, respect government authority, drink whole instead of raw milk — all things you wouldn’t want to do yourself if American culture wasn’t the way it was.

But there’s another buy-in for living in the U.S. When you live here, you sacrifice your God-given right to eat food that won’t poison you. When you live in the U.S, in any city or suburb, you are forced, manipulated and coerced into consuming toxic, vile, drug-filled, addiction prone, chemically infused, decrepit, flesh-wasting, vomit inducing, poisonous ‘food’-like substances. Three meals a day. Seven days a week.

There is not a single processed carbohydrate on the food market, nor are there many cooking oils that do not contain seed oils. Seed oils also happen to be the BANE of our existence! For years we have been lied to and DECEIVED! We have been told that seed oils are a healthy option, that they are a great replacement for saturated fats. And what have we become as a result of consuming them? Obese, chronically ill and enslaved! Higher rates of obesity and chronic illness have risen astronomically in the United States since the 1980’s — almost the exact time when fast food companies and food manufacturers began to use seed and vegetable oils to cook their food. Previously, companies like McDonald’s had used beef tallow, a healthy saturated fat. During that time period, fast food grew rapidly across the United States but the obesity and chronic illness rate remained constant. Since the 1980’s, however, our obesity rate has nearly tripled, as has our consumption of highly processed foods (poison) doused in seed oils (more poison).

Manufacturing seed oils is also complicated. They are made through a chemical process where the seeds are shelled, crushed, conditioned, flaked, mixed with Hexane — a toxic organic compound, distilled, then BLEACHED and finally deodorized to produce a highly refined and processed seed oil. Or, an alternative process to seed oils would just simply be squeezing olives. But what does this show? Is bleaching our food the way to go? Nay, the seed oils that are used in almost all restaurants, processed foods and even home cooking are bleached and mixed with toxic chemical compounds in an arduous and highly refined process. Within seed oils are copious amounts of Omega-6 Fats, which lead to bodily chronic inflammation. This includes conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, strokes and type 2 diabetes.

So why are seed oils still used if they’re so unhealthy? And why do most health journals and dietary publications say very little about their harmful effects? Why do seed oils control the American diet? Who is profiting from this? I decided to return to my investigative work to find the answer.

Step 1: Follow the money from the ground up.

I decided to begin my work by looking at the primary shareholders of the pesticide and fertilizer companies. These unhealthy pesticides — used in just about all of our food — are the first step of seed oil manufacturing.

Listed below are the primary shareholders in the leading edible poison companies:

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In most of the publicly traded companies, BlackRock and Vanguard appeared to be the primary investors. Both are institutional investment and asset managers. Correction: BlackRock and Vanguard are the two largest institutional asset and investment managers in the world, with a combined total of $20.8 trillion in assets under management. Hm. Food for thought.

Step 2: Trace the Money and the Product

After the seeds are fertilized and sprayed with legal poison which deteriorates the body and degrades the dignity of every human soul, they are harvested and manufactured by the seed oil processing companies. Again, I decided to take a look at the primary shareholders of these firms. Why? Primary shareholders have the greatest influence on a firm’s decisions because they represent a firm’s largest source of capital.

Posted below are the primary shareholders of the largest seed oil companies.

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Excluding Cargill and LD — two privately held companies — each publicly traded company’s largest institutional investor was either BlackRock or Vanguard. Both companies are the largest stakeholders in both the pesticide and the manufacturing companies which produce seed oils. Therefore, in order to see the value of their shares in each company grow, it is in BlackRock and Vanguard’s best interest to flood the food market with seed oils. Every investor who finances a firm wants to see increases in market capitalization, profits and share prices. In other words, BlackRock and Vanguard profit off of bodily inflammation, chronic illness, heart disease, strokes and diabetes. How ‘growing the good in business’ of them!

Step 3: Third Party Poison Distribution

Firms like PepsiCo, Tyson Foods, Kraft Heinz, General Mills and Kellogg are the leading food processing companies in the United States. All are notorious for their production of highly processed snacks, sweets and beverages. They purchase seed and vegetable oils to produce highly processed and highly unhealthy foods while likely bribing the FDA in order to legally sell their product. So … who owns these food manufacturing companies?

Listed below are the largest food manufacturing and seed oil processing companies, as noted by the S&P 500. The graph indicates the top shareholders in each specific company.

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Every single company’s primary shareholder is one of two companies: BlackRock or Vanguard. All of them use deep fryers, pesticides, corn syrups, an assortment of food dyes and most hazardously, seed oils. And all of these ingredients are terribly unhealthy for human consumption.

Step 4: Sniffing Through The Coverup

BlackRock and Vanguard clearly profit off of obesity and chronic illness in the United States. In fact, it is in their economic interest that people consume unhealthy and highly processed foods, given that they are the primary shareholders in almost every single pesticide, seed oil and processed food manufacturing company that is publicly traded.

So why haven’t health publications been more vocal about the threat of seed oils and highly processed grains?

Any dietary publication that has the ability to scale its influence is often publicly traded. And who are the largest shareholders in those dietary publication companies? No need to guess.

WW International, known as WeightWatchers, has a massive audience with 8 million website visitors every month. Simply Good Foods is the parent company of Atkins Nutrionals and Quest Nutrition, who are both self labeled nutrition companies and health publishers. Medifast does clinical research specializing in weight loss and nutritional solutions. All of them, with their research, their products and their publications, are funded primarily by BlackRock and Vanguard.

Naturally, it makes sense that after intensely scouring the internet, I could not find a single article produced by any of these six dietary publications which explicitly denounced the use of seed oils in the human diet. I guarantee you that you will not find one either. Instead, you will find articles like this, an article by WeightWatchers which presents a guide to cooking with seed oils. How ironic. A Dietary Publication whose name implies providing people with the nutritional information necessary to lose weight is concurrently guiding people to use ingredients which lead to obesity and chronic illness. Or you’ll find an article published by Atkins Nutrionals which discusses the nutritional value of seed oils, including Canola Oil: “This healthy cooking oil is made from the seeds of the canola plant. Canola oil is one of the healthiest cooking oils.”

Or let's go back to WeightWatchers when they dropped an article titled, “Processed Food Gets a Bad Rap, Should It?”. It gets more misleading. They never once condemn the consumption of processed foods in the article. They — they being actual doctors who are clearly bought and paid for — only say "consume sparingly” when it comes to processed foods. How about: “Don’t consume at all?” Or: “Avoid them at all costs because they are legal poison?” Nope. Just consume them sparingly. We wouldn’t want to upset our primary shareholder, now would we?

Atkins Nutrionals might be even more ironic. They claim to produce low carbohydrate foods and meal plans for those seeking ways to eat deliciously while losing weight. And yet, all of their foods are highly processed, with copious amounts of additives and sweeteners in their foods. This can cause digestive issues, decreased energy and infertility. In fact, the first ingredient in these weight loss Atkins Bars and Atkins Shakes is — you guessed it! — a variation of vegetable oils. Sunflower, canola and soybean oils are all used in the production of weight loss ‘health’ foods. There could not be more blatant situational irony.

Let’s move on to other ways in which BlackRock and Vanguard infiltrate the dietary research world. WebMD is known for publishing online health advice pertaining to drugs, nutrition and exercise. WebMD is owned by Internet Brands. They own a diverse portfolio of health-related websites including WebMD, Medscape and MedicineNet. Internet Brands is owned by the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. And who are their primary shareholders?

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Step 5: Pointing out the corruption!

So, a conflict of interest has clearly arisen.

We are being fed poison. BlackRock and Vanguard have encouraged and invested in food processing companies who made food cheap to appeal to the market, then made it cheaper than healthy foods to divert human interest and exploit human needs. Most families may not be able to afford healthy diets, so food companies provided an addictive and exploitative solution. As a result, our country has never been more obese or unhealthy. Our country has never suffered from as much chronic disease, heart disease or cholesterol issues. Our weakness to go for comfort has been exploited by a higher power.

BlackRock and Vanguard are explicitly profiting off of the obesity and chronic illness epidemic. Subsequently, they are investing their profits in dietary publications to coerce the health industry into succumbing to their lust for money. In other words, the information published by publicly traded health organizations is false. We are being lied to by the health industry so that BlackRock and Vanguard can retain and expand their profits in the food industry.

Think about this for a minute. If dietary publications denounced seed oils as poison, it would not be in BlackRock or Vanguard interest to invest in those dietary publications because they clearly conflict with their series of prior investments in the seed oil and highly processed food companies. In other words, if the health industry went against BlackRock and actually told the truth, they would lose their two primary shareholders — their two most reliable forms of investment and raising capital.

BlackRock and Vanguard control the seed oil industry, the processed food industry and the dietary recommendation industry. BlackRock and Vanguard are the primary shareholders in just about every single company in every single industry, creating an unspoken monopoly of totalitarian control. In order to retain investment, food manufacturing companies and dietary publications are economically inclined to appease their primary shareholders rather than tell the truth. Companies will lie until it’s illegal in order to keep their largest shareholders happy. What does this mean for the American people?

We are being fed poison! We are suffering from increased obesity and chronic illness! We are told that the seed oils we consume in almost every meal are actually somewhat healthy! Americans, the proletariat, have been lied to, exploited, manipulated and crushed by the sickening and endless pursuit of profits by the corporate elite!

My Conclusion: BlackRock and Vanguard are simultaneously using their position in asset management to invest in both hazardous food companies and dietary publications to establish a regime of totalitarian control. This puts BlackRock and Vanguard in a position of complete power over the food industry and the medical field as it sits on its almighty throne of lies!

So what can you do?

I will present to you three suggestions to avoid BlackRock’s blanket of immoral control.

  1. Never, under any circumstances, assume that anything you read in a dietary publication is true. BlackRock and Vanguard have assured that only lies will be published in the health industry. Anything you read in a health magazine or website is a lie.
  2. Eat steak three meals a day, 100% pasture raised, 100% grass fed. Never touch a single processed carb again unless you want to be swept into the throes of addiction and be forced to confine to the rules of the socialist, totalitarian oligarchy we know as BlackRock.
  3. Find the “Black Rock” and destroy it.

Joe Rudolph

To issue a complaint, please contact jrudolp3@nd.edu.

The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.