While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race on Friday and endorsed former President Donald Trump, he said Vice President Kamala Harris has “no interest” in eliminating toxic chemicals from the nation’s food supply or cleaning up agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
In his announcement, Kennedy signaled he would be committed to a future Trump administration, focusing on eradicating chronic health problems and raising regulatory standards for the U.S. food supply.
“These agencies — the FDA, the USDA, the CDC — are all controlled by big for-profit corporations. 75 percent of the FDA’s funding doesn’t come from taxpayers, it comes from pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical lobbyists run in and out of these agencies,” Kennedy said.
With President Trump’s support, I intend to change that. I intend to staff these institutions with scientists and physicians who are not funded by industry. We will ensure that decisions for consumers, physicians and patients are based on unbiased science. [Emphasis added]
We will end farm subsidies to subsidize the worst foods. We will remove toxic chemicals from our food. We’re going to reform our entire food system, and to do that we need new leadership in Washington, because unfortunately, both Democrats and Republicans are in cahoots with big food producers, big pharmaceutical companies, and big agriculture companies.[riculture]are some of the Democratic National Committee’s top donors. [Emphasis added]
Kennedy also said Harris had refused to return calls and had “demonstrated no willingness to address this issue.”
“Four more years of Democrats will complete the consolidation of power for corporations and neo-conservatives, and our children will suffer the most,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy said Trump “has taken these issues upon himself and has asked me to join his administration.”
One of the issues Kennedy will spearhead as he campaigns with Trump is a major overhaul of the U.S. food supply, which he blames for the rise of chronic disease among Americans and the financial bonanza for big pharmaceutical companies.
“Today we spend more on health care than any country on earth, twice as much as Europe, and yet overall, we have the worst health of any country. We rank about 79th in health, behind Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mongolia and many others. No other country has the burden of chronic disease like we do,” Kennedy said.
Two-thirds of American adults and children have a chronic health problem. Fifty years ago, that figure was less than 1%. It has increased from 1% to 66%. In the United States, 74 percent of the population is now overweight or obese, as are 50 percent of children. 120 years ago, if someone was obese, they were sent to the circus. The circus was literally a case study on obesity. Obesity was almost unknown… Currently, one in three children has diabetes or prediabetes. [Emphasis added]
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There has been a sharp rise in neurological disorders, including ADD, ADHD, speech delay, Tourette’s syndrome, narcolepsy, Asperger’s syndrome, and autism. In 2000, the rate of autism was 1 in 1,500. Today, the rate of autism among children nationwide is 1 in 36. No one is mentioning this…This is a crisis where 77 percent of American children are too disabled to serve in the U.S. military. [Emphasis added]
Approximately 18% of American teenagers suffer from fatty liver disease …When I was a child, the disease only affected elderly, end-stage alcoholics. Cancer rates are skyrocketing among young and old…One in four American women takes antidepressants. 40% of teenagers have been diagnosed with a mental illness, 15% of high school students take Adderall, and half a million kids take SSRIs. [Emphasis added]
Kennedy said “ultra-processed foods” and “toxic chemicals in our food, medicines and environment” were to blame.
“Around 70 percent of American children’s diets are ultra-processed foods – that is, foods made in factories. These foods consist mainly of processed sugars, ultra-processed grains and seed oils. Laboratory scientists have mobilized thousands of scientists to find new chemicals that make foods more addictive. These ingredients did not exist 100 years ago; humans are not biologically adapted to eat them. Hundreds of these chemicals are banned in Europe but are ubiquitous in American processed foods.”
The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, medicines and environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceuticals and toxic waste permeate every cell in our bodies. This attack on our children’s cells and hormones is relentless. One problem: Many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are consuming so many of these hormone disruptors, the age of puberty in the United States is now 10-13 years old, six years earlier than the age at which girls began puberty in 1900. We are a country with earlier puberty than any other continent on Earth. No, this is not because of better nutrition. This is not normal. Breast cancer is also caused by estrogen and now affects 1 in 8 women. We are massively poisoning all our children and adults. [Emphasis added]
As a result, the federal government spends twice as much on treating chronic diseases as it does on the U.S. military, Kennedy said. At the same time, government agricultural subsidies for processed foods are “destroying small farms and destroying soils,” Kennedy said.
“What is going on in our country? Why isn’t this in the news every day… Why are we allowing this to happen to our children?” Kennedy said.
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