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Kylie Means
Natural food. We've got to get back to feeding kids real food. And Bill Gates. You know who owns more farmland than any other person in the world?
Guest/Co-host
Wow.
Kylie Means
It won't say why. Saying that the answer is growing meat in a lab instead of empowering our American ranchers. You know, to, to. To. To be successful doesn't really pass the sniff test.
Unknown Host
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Guest/Co-host
You speak it.
Kylie Means
Yes. It's all blurred together. Yeah. I had a great chat with Vani Hari, food babe and Paul Saladino.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah, her petition was phenomenal. And Paul's doing amazing things.
Kylie Means
You're talking about half.
Guest/Co-host
No, I haven't met her yet.
Kylie Means
Oh, you got to get on. Yeah, she's great.
Guest/Co-host
I'd love to.
Kylie Means
She's great. She's a warrior.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah. That was the biggest food signature I've ever seen. Over 300,000 signatures against Kellogg's.
Kylie Means
Yeah, she got. It's at 450,000 right now. And I mean, moms are waking up. I think there's a real political movement here with Maha. You know, you never, you never think you'd have food bay talking about food chemicals.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
At a conservative conference, this would have been a left wing thing five years ago. But politics is changing and it's a good thing.
Guest/Co-host
When you originally got with RFK on the Maha movement, how aware was he about all these issues?
Kylie Means
Oh, RFK has been a warrior on this for 20 years. I mean, this is the thing. I mean, he was considered a, you know, these were considered fringe issues. Talking about childhood chronic disease, talking about the chemicals in our food, talking about fluoride in the water, which by the way, European countries don't have, Japan doesn't have. Talking about, you know, just talking about these root cause issues. Sleep, sunlight, exercise, these basic things. He's been on the war path. I mean, he said so eloquently when he endorsed Trump that he's been praying for 19 years that these issues would be at the top of the national agenda. And President Trump answered his prayers. So. So I feel like you've had Bobby and all these warriors kind of on the alternative health space. It's not alternative anymore. And finally we've caught up to where what he's been saying for, for 20 years.
Guest/Co-host
How do you feel about this lab grown meat movement? You got guys like Bill Gates advocating for it. Like, it seems weird to me, right?
Kylie Means
Absolutely. I mean, part of me is like, you know, let the free market reign. But the, the other part of me is like, we've got a serious problem with our food in the country. It's a national security issue. I mean, we've talked about it. Right. But 77% of kids not being eligible to join the military because of their weight and because of their metabolic health. So I think we've really got and talked about in this campaign. It's like, we've got to empower farmers.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
We got to get back to natural food. We've got to get back to feeding kids real food. And Bill Gates, you know, who owns more farmland than any other person in the world.
Guest/Co-host
Wow.
Kylie Means
It won't say why. Saying that the answer is growing meat in a lab instead of empowering our American ranchers, you know, to, to, to. To be successful. Doesn't really pass the sniff test.
Guest/Co-host
Might be a correlation there with the farmland.
Kylie Means
Yeah. I don't get it.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
None of it makes sense. And they're not being very transparent about it.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
You know, the two biggest owners of farmland in the United States are Bill Gates and the ccp. Literally China. China is buying up farmland all over the country. You look at a graph and all the farmland is around Military bases. So there's a huge, huge stranglehold from the CCP on our food supply. So, so that's something I think President Trump's going to be looking very closely at.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah, well, you know, they're all about different types of warfare over there. It's not just physical warfare.
Kylie Means
RFK said it on a Trump rally one time that if a foreign government did what the processed food industry is doing to our country, be an act of war. I mean, 38% of teens now pre diabetic.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
20 having fatty liver disease. The obesity crisis. I mean the, the obesity rate in Japan for kids is 3% and here, wow, 50% of teens are overweight or obese. So there's something really problematic and this transcends politics. This, this is just a national security. I think it's a spiritual issue because kids are just, they're losing touch with their bodies. I mean, they're losing their mental health. It's tied to, so it's a big issue.
Guest/Co-host
Mean when your body's not healthy, you can't be spiritually healthy.
Kylie Means
You know, I, it does become spiritual. You know, there's, there's passions in the Bible. Our body is meant to enable us to connect with God. And you know, this is what Casey and I talk about in good energy, you know, at the root cause it's our cells malfunctioning. I mean even obesity is our, you know, our cells getting too much glucose that, the, that the, our mitochondria can't handle it. It's kicking it out and that excess sugar is turning into fat. Yeah. So, you know, that's just one visible sign of this underlying crisis that's happening in average kid's body that's going to their brain. I mean, you know, 40% of teens are on a pharmaceutical product and you know, you hear this, I'm sure all the time, like it's not right. What's happening with kids and their mental health. Suicide is the second leads and cause of cause of childhood death.
Guest/Co-host
Wow.
Kylie Means
So, so there's a real issue there. I also think again, these are weird things to be talking about.
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Kylie Means
But I think we've lost touch with the cycles of the earth and our farmland. It's like, you know, a tomato in the United States is 70% less nutrient dense than it was 50 years ago.
Guest/Co-host
Whoa.
Kylie Means
Because our soil is so depleted. So by kind of this industrial, agricultural, bill gates process agriculture system are literally we're depleting our soil which gives us the nutrients, which translates everything in the world, you know, into the food. So, yeah. Yeah. I think, I think there is a deeper thing here. I think in a weird way, and I've said this, I wasn't a Trump fan in 2016. You know, I thought he was a big threat.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
I believe him winning with the support of people like rfk would the most important, you know, moment potentially of my lifetime. I mean, I think this was a massive historical necessity that trump had to win. And I think in a weird way he's restoring our spirits back in this country. We're thinking big again. I mean, we've had a dark 10 years.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
Of misinformation, police and the inability to question, you know, the established dogmas, you know, why the hell are parents, you know, crucified for questioning pharmaceutical products or questioning the existing standard of care when that's only led to kids being more sick.
Guest/Co-host
Yep. You got the IRS stating food is not medicine.
Kylie Means
Right.
Guest/Co-host
You got health insurance prices. Absurd. I pay 850amonth. Most families cannot afford that.
Kylie Means
Oh, it's crazy. It's the number one cause of bankruptcy. And it's interesting, the insurance, you know, people say should be incentivized for us to be healthy. It's Actually not. Do you know about this? The 15% medical loss ratio? So Obamacare made it that insurance companies can only make 15% profit, so they have to pay out 85%. It was this populous thing that, oh, the profits are too high. We're capping your profits at 15%. But it made it that you can raise premiums so they can get that 50%. So you just think about it, they didn't even realize this. If you are mandated 15% profit margin but can raise prices in order to get that 50%, the incentive is for cost to keep going up. So in the past 10 years, insurance premiums have doubled because they have this incentive for the pie to be grow. They want 15% of a larger and larger and larger pie.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
So there's actually a strong incentive for an insurance company to want you sick. They actually want a bunch of interventions. They actually want you on a bunch of pills. They actually want a bunch of surgeries. Because it's costs go up, they're able to take more and more and more 15%. So literally every single lever that touches our health actually wants you sick.
Guest/Co-host
That's so crazy. Yeah. It's nuts, man. I mean, what happened to United Health Care was insane.
Kylie Means
I mean, there's interesting, I mean, it's very dark and I think terrible and very scary how there's any support of that. And that guy is a total psychopath and it's terrible. But there's. I feel like there's this undefined, hard to put your finger on rage that every American person right now feels towards the healthcare system.
Guest/Co-host
Right.
Kylie Means
I think Bobby and Trump tapped into the positive vein of that. They said, listen, your kids are sick, you should be frustrated. But there's a positive place we can go. There's a positive way where the US Government can look at every civil institution of health and say, how do we incentivize you to want kids to be healthy, not sick? This Maha agenda to me is a platform of incredible optimism. It's a platform where we have deregulation at the FDA to let all these startups, and there's so many interesting startups you probably talk to that are trying to do innovative blood testing, innovative therapeutics. It costs $2 billion to get to the FDA process. That's by design for big pharma. Yeah. And that's just a big Pharma protecting innovation. The FDA should be massively deregulated. I don't think RFK and Trump are declaring war on pharma at all. They're declaring war on big Pharma, small pharma, interesting therapeutics, blood testing, preventative scans, AI enabled tools which the Biden administration is just not allowed anything. We should all be having a doctor in our pocket that's tied to our blood test that's giving personalized preventative ideas. Yeah, there's this world of abundance. And then when it comes to CMS, Dr. Oz, you know, this boring department, but it's the biggest department in government. It basically steers 20% of the US economy. All these medical codes. Right now it's a sick care codes. It's like on Medicare, you have to wait to get sick and then you get a bunch of drugs. That's the way the system works. We can unbundle and allow people to have freedom. And then when it comes to the nih, and this is huge, Jay Bhattasharya, the guy that was blacklisted on Twitter, the guy that Stanford tried to fire, he's now running the nih. I don't know if you remember this. He was, he was talking four years about school lockdowns. He was saying it was a bad idea and he was ostracized. He's now running the nih and they're just going to ask what's making people sick? How do we get back to real science? So I think you're going to actually just attack these institutions to change the dynamics with our insurance and with our pharmacists, you know, with our hospitals. Very quickly.
Guest/Co-host
Do you think the biggest reason for the sickness is the ultra processed foods?
Kylie Means
Yeah, so I don't like stack ranking. I think here's what's happening. 92% of medical spending is on chronic disease. 92% of deaths are chronic conditions. So these are obesity, heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver disease, Alzheimer's. The problem is the medical system treats these as all separate conditions. If you have those conditions, you're at a different doctor with a different pill every time. The foundational thing that Bobby Kennedy and President Trump are saying is these conditions are interrelated and they're interrelated by simple things like food. Food's a huge problem, but it's also sedentary lifestyle. Right now, a child in a school, public school in the United States gets less time outside than a maximum security prisoner. Okay? There's no time for kids to play. They're sitting at desks for eight hours. They're not getting moving, they're not out in the sun, which is extremely important. We get two hours less sleep than we did just 100 years ago. We have chronic stress the fact that we have, you know, phone, you know, just basically lighting up our stress receptors every single second, it's a problem. Now, Trump's not saying to ban phones, he's not saying to ban artificial light, he's not saying to ban Coca Cola. But we should be aware of this and we should be looking at this holistic set of factors that are assaulting our children and ourselves and look at the $4.5 trillion we spend in medicine and say, how can we ameliorate these problems? The core message that I'm pushing with my sister and that President Trump and Bobby talked about is chronic disease is interconnected.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
So it gets to that spiritual awakening. How can we talk and incentivize with our kids and talk to them about more exercise, eating real food, looking at the sun, you know, not being chronically addicted to their phones all day? Like, these aren't things we should be mandating top down, but they are things we can incentivize. You know, right now, SNAP, right? These food stamps, 18% of SNAP goes to soda. Like we're shoving this stuff into our child's hands. Right. We're incentivizing and recommending all the wrong things. To this day, as we stand here today, the USDA recommends added sugar to 2 year olds. The American Medical association, which sets the standard of care for our system, says that gender affirming care for two year olds is okay and encouraged. Literally, you can't even make this up. Just every single aspect of our medical system is declaring war on kids. And you just have to say, enough. How can the codes incentivize the right thing for kids?
Guest/Co-host
Right?
Kylie Means
And I don't think Americans are trying to kill themselves. I don't think American children, you know, and American parents want to live 10 years less than the Japanese, our friends in Switzerland. But they are. We're living 10 years less. It's our very corrupt captured system. They're now there's focus on.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah, that's 3,600 days less.
Kylie Means
It's a lot. I mean that, that's like over 10% of your lifespan. I mean, this is a huge, huge deal.
Guest/Co-host
And then you got health. Health span too is probably going down.
Kylie Means
No, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The fact that we live 10 years less than someone in Switzerland is the top of the iceberg of a much larger issue that we're suffering along the way.
Guest/Co-host
Right.
Kylie Means
We, we've got. And that's leading to that cancer death or the suicide death, because we're so depressed. Because of all these issues or, or the heart disease death or the diabetes related death, or the Alzheimer's related death, you have multiple comorbidities leading up to that. That's the big problem. The small things equal the big thing.
Guest/Co-host
Right.
Kylie Means
So everyone that's has Alzheimer's inevitably had diabetes. They inevitably had some depression. They never really had some fertility issues, which is highly related to diabetes. They inevitably had fatty liver disease. They inevitably had, you know, all these other issues. So we're not only living much less than European countries, we have much more tortured lives and it's a real human capital crisis.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah. There needs to be a mindset shift. Right. More preventative.
Kylie Means
That's right.
Guest/Co-host
I just took a pronuo scan.
Kylie Means
What do you think?
Guest/Co-host
Amazing.
Kylie Means
Yeah.
Guest/Co-host
But I'm able to identify these things that are early because I'm 27 and I'm like, oh, wow, if I waited on that, that could have been something bad. You found some stuff present, some stuff, you know, and they said a lot of people, that happens too, so.
Kylie Means
So right now the FDA says not to do pronova scans.
Guest/Co-host
Oh, really?
Kylie Means
Yeah. There's a war right now of the current medical system against any type of early detection diagnosis. They have said not to use continuous glucose monitors to understand your glucose. They warn against blood testing. That's more than just the standard blood test. You get to the doctors, they actually say they actually have a essentially standing order against preventative cancer screening.
Guest/Co-host
Wow.
Kylie Means
It makes no sense. One thing that Marty Makary has talked about, who's going to lead the FDA, has absolutely reversed the FDA's war on early detection. There's this assumption in the health care system that the American patient is too dumb to have that data from an early scan. They're too dumb to understand their blood test. They're too dumb to have, you know, bio wearable devices that give us insight. That's so wrong. Right. You probably see this. Being empowered with information helps you be healthier. Getting intense functional medicine, blood testing. I found I was low grade, had an autoimmune condition, was able to attack that. It was very good to know. It helped me change my diet. Getting your pronova scan helps you understand what's going on. Take action on that. You know, getting all these biosensors, understanding your sleep, it helps close that loop. So I think one tangible thing that the Trump administration is going to unleash is let's let Americans have their access to their healthcare data. Right now, in 20 states, patients aren't even legally allowed to have their medical records. There's this, like, assumption from the medical system that patients are too dumb to understand their own health information. That needs to end, that needs to stop.
Guest/Co-host
The fertility issues hits deep with me. Almost every female friend I have has had a miscarriage. Isn't that crazy?
Kylie Means
Miscarriages are like, skyrocketing right now.
Guest/Co-host
It's nuts.
Kylie Means
They're skyrocketing.
Guest/Co-host
Every single friend of mine.
Kylie Means
I believe it.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
I believe it. That's not normal.
Guest/Co-host
No. And. But the media is treating it as normal.
Kylie Means
They are.
Guest/Co-host
You know, they are. But in your generation, that probably was not happening as well.
Kylie Means
You probably have friends. Many women with PCOS with infertility issues that skyrocket, that's doubled in 10 years. That's the leading cause of infertility. Male sperm counts plummeting. I mean, really, it's pretty dark. I mean, let's, let's get out of motivations. There's a dark situation happening where our bodies are crying out for help on our core evolutionary function. I mean, what, what lesson does it send? What warning does it send that we're losing the ability to reproduce? Like, birth rates are plummeting in the United States. Whether it's miscarriages going up, PCOS going up, gestational diabetes, birth issues, everything that impacts a child or fertility is going up. There's an absolute war on moms. Once the kid's born, it's even more of a problem. Right now, the biggest funder of the American Academy of Pediatrics is Abbott, which is the maker of formula. There's actually studies coming out from Bill Gates.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
Essentially suggesting that lab grown baby formula is better than breast milk.
Guest/Co-host
What?
Kylie Means
There's a war on breast milk? There's a war on what a children should be eating. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends processed food as the first thing a child should be fed. I mean, it is really, really tough out there. I don't know if you know Alex Clark, who's part of Turning Point, who's just a warrior on this issue, but we went to the Senate together and she let out a rallying cry for the American mom. The American mom, from conception to the birth of the child to the life of that child, is getting absolutely crushed by our systems.
Guest/Co-host
Well, the whole process of a hospital birth is pretty traumatizing.
Kylie Means
100%.
Guest/Co-host
You know, I'm considering home birth right now.
Kylie Means
Well, we, so, so I, as you know, I grew up as a Young Conservative in D.C. i would have never been expected to talk about raw milk and home birth. But we had a home birth.
Guest/Co-host
Oh, yeah, nice.
Kylie Means
And it was magical, I think. You know, listen, women should do whatever the hell they want, obviously, when it comes to bringing their child in the world. But I don't think women are getting informed consent right now. Right now, 40% of births in the United States are from a C section. Now, again, do whatever you want. Do whatever you want, but that's a severe intervention against this miracle of life, right? This, this perfectly designed system to bring a human into this world. My wife talked very eloquently about how it was one of the most empowering experiences of her life. You know, to be able to do this by herself, unmedicated. You know, obviously with medical care there, I will say, you know, giving birth, you know, a hundred years ago was the most dangerous thing a human could do. I think for emergency issues, it is nice to have a doctor at least available. But for the vast majority of women, it's perfectly appropriate to have a natural birthday. I think a very empowering experience, very important bond with the child. And it truly is the most miraculous process that a human being of any gender will do rightful bringing that life in the world. I think the fact that we've medicalized birth is a huge spiritual problem. It's really disempowered women too.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
I think if a lot of women knew the complications with C sections, knew the importance for the microbiome of giving a natural birth, you know, knew the risk for the baby, and the fact that we have the highest early childhood death in the developed world because of all our interventions. You know, I think if women had informed consent, they'd be making different decisions. A lot of them would.
Guest/Co-host
Absolutely. You also got the pain injection some women get, right? I forget what it's called, but yeah, yeah.
Kylie Means
And, and, and, and the problem is, it's like many things in medicine, you know, they, the doctors are on their schedule. They're like, okay, let's give you some Pitocin, because that's going to induce, you know, quicker, and then that often has complications and leads to, you know, a risky birth. So just do a C section. Then the C section leads to an infection. I mean, you probably see this. So many women now have horror stories about birth. It's a traumatic experience. And that's because that first intervention, the first intervention often leads to other cascading intervention. Ideally, we want to bias towards what a natural process is. We want to have medical care there. In an emergency, if there is an infection, we should have antibiotics. We want to bias towards as little instant interventions as possible.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah, you got A woman fearful of giving birth these days.
Kylie Means
Oh, yeah, it's, it's very disempowering.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah. And at the current rate, we're going to depopulate. You know, Elon talks about this.
Kylie Means
Elon's absolutely right. I mean, there's a war on our birth rate. There's a, every public policy that we have is anti child, anti family.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
I mean, at the end of the day, a lot of this health discussion goes to the, an attack on the family. I mean we, we are losing respect for our kids and respect for the miracle of life.
Guest/Co-host
Another thing I want to see improve is the school lunch programs. I grew up in a middle upper class town and you would think there would be decent lunch there. It was not decent. It was french fries, it was fried food. It was the worst quality meat you could find. It was leftover dominoes. It was terrible.
Kylie Means
I mean, this is another example of just how we're really just letting down kids in. I don't like to give Europe or other countries that much credit, but in France they have a bipartisan consensus and it's extremely important what children eat at daycare. There's actually a four course meal including a cheese course at the end. I don't know if they give a cigarette or a glass of wine, but it's grass fed cheese, it's fruit, it's a balanced meal. It's very serious how they do it. It's very looked at how high quality that food is. Here we're giving kids ultra processed crap. I was at a event for, you know, my alma mater, my alma mater, Stanford, this summer thing, and they had daycare and you know, ostensibly they're supposed to be smart people. They had the students providing the daycare and they were giving them graham crackers and Oreos.
Guest/Co-host
Wow.
Kylie Means
To two year olds. And I'm like, this is what's happening at a Stanford event. I mean, it just is crazy. There's just. We've completely lost our minds.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
And I do think again, I'm a conservative. I don't think there should be a nanny state. But the fact that we recommend this ultra processed crap to kids is actually a reverse nanny state. It's a corruption of the system. It's not nanny state. To say that we should have correct school lunch guidelines. That's actually a corrupt correction of corruption that we've already seen. You know, I say this a lot. Michelle Obama early on was right. But I don't think it should be the first lady saying this. It should be the President. It should Be the Secretary of Defense because we're becoming non competitive as a country from a military readiness standpoint. It should be the Secretary of the treasury because poisoning our kids is going to bankrupt our country in healthcare costs. Right. It should be all the major cabinet secretaries because this impacts everything.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
So Michelle Obama actually caved in a year because she got a lot of pressure. Big food. Just focus on exercise. We need a full court press that. We need to have real food for kids.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah, yeah. Shout out to her. Even though, you know, obviously we're not. She liberal.
Kylie Means
She caved. But she was right on that.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah, she was right.
Kylie Means
She was right on that. We should actually listen to her, what she said in the first year.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah. I grew up eating lunchables. They got exposed for having heavy metals and all sorts of stuff. Tough glyphosate.
Kylie Means
Well, lunchables is considered a health food according to this current school lunch guide.
Guest/Co-host
Crazy.
Kylie Means
There's hundreds of millions of dollars that go to Lunchables of federal funds a year. Just like right now. Well over $10 billion of federal funds from food stamps go to soda.
Guest/Co-host
Wow. So that goes directly to the soda companies.
Kylie Means
Over $10 billion from the US treasury each year goes to soda companies just from SNAP. Oh my gosh.
Guest/Co-host
What do you think the alternative is to food stamps though? Because these, these families still got to eat. Right.
Kylie Means
I think my personal opinion is we should have a supplemental nutrition. It's snap. Supplemental Nutrition program for our neediest Americans. Every developed country has some kind of supplemental nutrition. We should not have people starving. What do I think about snap? I think that it shouldn't go to soda and Hostess cupcakes, which it does right now.
Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
Kylie Means
No other country has a supplemental nutrition program going to this ultra processed crap. 60 to 70% of all SNAP goes to ultra processed food. So you actually had Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a very conservative governor of Arkansas, recently request for RFK and Bobby Kennedy to enable her to do a pilot program in Arkansas where they actually take junk food and soda off of snap. States can actually ask the federal government to have a unique structure where they have healthier food on snap. The Biden administration up till now has rejected. They've literally rejected state requests to take soda off of snap.
Guest/Co-host
Wow.
Kylie Means
So we're actually getting governors together right now who are ready to ask for that. And the Trump administration looks like they're going to grant those requests. So that's my answer. Snap. SNAP should go to whole food. I want to be clear. I'm a libertarian. I think most drugs should be legal. I don't think coke should be banned. I don't think cigarettes should be banned but we shouldn't be subsidizing them with government money.
Guest/Co-host
Right? I love that Kylie. I can't wait to see what you, Bobby and the rest of Maha do. Where could people get your book and keep up with your men?
Kylie Means
Yeah, good energy really lays this out. I mean it was really, really grateful to see the resonance this year. The Trump campaign was reported was using this as a as an inspiration for policy so really grateful for that but good energy is available everywhere on the socials that Cali means and grateful for you for shining a light on these itches, man. I think independent media has been a massive force of this Maha movement. I think we've got a big opportunity. People of every party I think should be supporting Bobby and Trump with this mandate for President Trump to protect kids.
Guest/Co-host
Absolutely. I love it. Thanks for coming on again.
Kylie Means
Thank you, sir.
Guest/Co-host
Yep.
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Kylie Means
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Digital Social Hour: "Bill Gates' Farmland Secret: What It Means for Your Food" | Calley Means DSH #1067
Release Date: January 6, 2025
In this compelling episode of Digital Social Hour, host Sean Kelly engages in a profound and unfiltered conversation with guest Calley Means. The discussion navigates through the intricate web of food ownership, health crises, political movements, and systemic challenges impacting American society. Below is a detailed summary capturing the essence of their dialogue, enriched with notable quotes and timestamps for contextual reference.
Calley Means kicks off the discussion by unveiling a startling revelation about Bill Gates owning more farmland than any other individual globally. This revelation serves as a springboard for questioning the motives behind such substantial land ownership.
This segment delves into the obscurity surrounding Gates' farmland acquisitions and critiques the push towards lab-grown meat as a diversion from supporting American ranchers.
The conversation transitions to the debate between lab-grown meat and traditional ranching. Calley expresses skepticism about the sustainability and transparency of lab-grown alternatives.
Calley Means [03:12]: “How do you feel about this lab grown meat movement? You got guys like Bill Gates advocating for it. Like, it seems weird to me, right?”
Calley Means [04:11]: “You know, the two biggest owners of farmland in the United States are Bill Gates and the CCP. Literally China is buying up farmland all over the country... So there's a huge, huge stranglehold from the CCP on our food supply.”
The discussion highlights concerns about foreign influence and the lack of transparency in the food industry, emphasizing the need to support domestic agriculture.
A significant focus of the episode is the alarming rise in chronic health conditions among American youth. Calley underscores the severity of obesity, diabetes, and mental health issues, framing them as national security threats.
Calley Means [03:18]: “...77% of kids not being eligible to join the military because of their weight and because of their metabolic health.”
Calley Means [04:34]: “...we have a serious problem with our food in the country. It's a national security issue.”
She connects these health crises to broader societal and security concerns, advocating for systemic change to address the root causes.
Calley delves into the political landscape, highlighting how RFK has championed health and food issues for decades. She praises the alignment with President Trump, suggesting a pivotal moment for national health policy.
Calley Means [02:20]: “RFK has been a warrior on this for 20 years... I feel like you've had Bobby and all these warriors kind of on the alternative health space. It's not alternative anymore.”
Calley Means [07:51]: “I wasn't a Trump fan in 2016... I believe him winning with the support of people like RFK would [be] the most important... moment potentially of my lifetime.”
This section underscores the merging of health advocacy with political strategy, aiming to elevate these issues to the national agenda.
The episode takes a critical look at the American healthcare and insurance systems, exposing how they inadvertently incentivize sickness and high medical costs.
Calley Means [08:31]: “...insurance companies can only make 15% profit, so they have to pay out 85%. It was this populous thing that, oh, the profits are too high. We're capping your profits at 15%... they can raise premiums so they can get that 50%.”
Calley Means [09:23]: “...insurance companies actually want you sick. They actually want a bunch of interventions... They actually want you on a bunch of pills.”
Calley explains how regulatory structures like the 15% medical loss ratio paradoxically lead to higher premiums and a healthcare system that benefits from increased medical interventions.
The conversation shifts to the quality of school lunches and the misallocation of SNAP benefits, critiquing how federal funds inadvertently support unhealthy food options.
Calley Means [22:30]: “...we're giving kids ultra processed crap. I was at a Stanford event... they were giving them graham crackers and Oreos... this is what's happening at a Stanford event. I mean, it just is crazy.”
Calley Means [25:02]: “Over $10 billion from the US treasury each year goes to soda companies just from SNAP.”
Calley advocates for reforming SNAP to prioritize whole foods over processed items, highlighting a pressing need to restructure nutritional assistance programs.
Calley passionately critiques the medicalization of childbirth, arguing for greater empowerment and informed consent for women.
Calley Means [19:40]: “Women should do whatever the hell they want... But I don't think women are getting informed consent right now.”
Calley Means [21:14]: “...the medical system treats these as all separate conditions. If you have those conditions, you're at a different doctor with a different pill every time.”
She emphasizes the importance of natural birth experiences and the cascading complications that can arise from unnecessary medical interventions like C-sections.
In the concluding segments, Calley urges for a comprehensive policy overhaul to prioritize preventative health measures, support sustainable agriculture, and empower individuals with health data.
Calley Means [16:24]: “The FDA should be massively deregulated. I don't think RFK and Trump are declaring war on pharma at all. They're declaring war on big Pharma... The FDA should allow Americans to have access to their healthcare data.”
Calley Means [17:35]: “Miscarriages are like, skyrocketing right now. They're skyrocketing. That's not normal.”
Her call to action encompasses deregulation, combating big pharma’s influence, enhancing early detection in healthcare, and fostering a food system that truly nourishes the populace.
Calley discusses the potential of modern technology and early detection tools in transforming personal health management.
She champions the use of advanced health monitoring tools and the importance of individuals having access to and understanding their own health data.
As the episode concludes, Calley expresses optimism about the momentum gained through the Maha movement and independent media, urging listeners to support policies that protect children and promote holistic health.
Her final remarks encapsulate a vision for a united front across political spectrums to address the intertwined crises in food, health, and societal well-being.
Key Takeaways:
Food Ownership: The significant landholdings by Bill Gates and foreign entities pose questions about food security and independence.
Health Crisis: The surge in chronic diseases among children is not only a health issue but a national security threat.
Systemic Flaws: The current healthcare and insurance frameworks inadvertently promote sickness and escalate costs.
Policy Reform: There's an urgent need for comprehensive policy changes to prioritize preventive health, sustainable agriculture, and informed personal health management.
Empowerment Through Information: Access to health data and early detection tools can revolutionize individual health outcomes.
This episode of Digital Social Hour sheds light on critical issues at the intersection of food security, public health, and political activism, urging listeners to engage in meaningful discourse and advocate for systemic change.
Notable Quotes:
Calley Means [03:12]: “We've got a serious problem with our food in the country. It's a national security issue.”
Calley Means [08:31]: “...insurance companies actually want you sick. They actually want a bunch of interventions.”
Calley Means [22:30]: “We're giving kids ultra processed crap... I mean, it just is crazy.”
Calley Means [16:24]: “The FDA should be massively deregulated... Americans to have access to their healthcare data.”
Calley Means [26:38]: “People of every party I think should be supporting Bobby and Trump with this mandate for President Trump to protect kids.”
This comprehensive summary encapsulates the depth and breadth of the discussions in the episode, providing valuable insights for listeners and non-listeners alike.