I’m outside the states so I’m not across this very well, but as much as I hate to admit it, RFK does seem to have the right idea on a couple of things around ultra processed foods. This is almost certainly stopped-clock chemophobia but it’s weird seeing Republicans stumble bass-ackwards into good policy.
IIRC Marion Nestle (no relation) has some pretty good articles on the guy, I’ll update this post when I get a chance.
Doing anything about processed food means taking on the likes of Mondelez, Unilever, Nestle, General Mills, etc, so I have to wonder where the grift is, or if it’s just noise. I don’t really understand how he can talk about cracking down on one section of the food industry and simultaneously want to deregulate another (raw milk), which the DFA will fucking love. Maybe you’ll see a bunch of public-private partnerships where manufacturers get paid disproportionate amounts of money to do the bare minimum. Maybe you’ll see Nestle branded raw milk products on shelves. Maybe it’s all just words and nothing will happen at all.
FWIW RFK got a lot of attention from left-wing boomers that still clung onto being hippies in my neck of the woods. But damn does he have one bad case of peasantbrain.
He’s using some of the right words, but his intentions are to ban things like milk pasteurization and the right wings goal is to get him to ban things like vaccines. Nobody involved has the goal of regulating things like lead acetate out of applesauce and the corporations know it.
I’m outside the states so I’m not across this very well, but as much as I hate to admit it, RFK does seem to have the right idea on a couple of things around ultra processed foods. This is almost certainly stopped-clock chemophobia but it’s weird seeing Republicans stumble bass-ackwards into good policy.
IIRC Marion Nestle (no relation) has some pretty good articles on the guy, I’ll update this post when I get a chance.
UPDATE: Yeah, here are the posts, a bit more noncommittal than I remember.
RFK, Jr to head HHS: brilliant move or catastrophe?
Can Robert F. Kennedy, Jr influence the Dietary Guidelines? Most definitely, yes.
Doing anything about processed food means taking on the likes of Mondelez, Unilever, Nestle, General Mills, etc, so I have to wonder where the grift is, or if it’s just noise. I don’t really understand how he can talk about cracking down on one section of the food industry and simultaneously want to deregulate another (raw milk), which the DFA will fucking love. Maybe you’ll see a bunch of public-private partnerships where manufacturers get paid disproportionate amounts of money to do the bare minimum. Maybe you’ll see Nestle branded raw milk products on shelves. Maybe it’s all just words and nothing will happen at all.
FWIW RFK got a lot of attention from left-wing boomers that still clung onto being hippies in my neck of the woods. But damn does he have one bad case of peasantbrain.
He’s using some of the right words, but his intentions are to ban things like milk pasteurization and the right wings goal is to get him to ban things like vaccines. Nobody involved has the goal of regulating things like lead acetate out of applesauce and the corporations know it.