No one can deny that America has an obesity epidemic. It has been the subject of numerous news stories and the start of numerous pointless actions to promote health in America. The major is doing everything in its power to undermin the effort to restore health in America by undermining the fact that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be able to do something about it, and I mean really, I mean actually do something about the main causes.
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The New York Times lamented this week that “ms may find themselves under attack in the new Trump management,” along with boxes of brightly coloured breakfast cereals, brilliant orange Nacho, and dazzling violet M&.
As Mr. Trump’s choice to mind the Department of Health and Human Services, he had had far-reaching power over the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates about 80 percent of the world’s food supply. That includes creating container rules that list ingredients in most packaged foods as “healthy” or list how much sugar and other ingredients are contained in them.
But in vowing to overturn the world’s food system, Mr. Kennedy is taking a clear shot at Big Food, one of the country’s most effective industries whose classic allies are Republicans. The multibillion-dollar food industry is likely to face off in a knock-down fight even with as little as removing synthetic dyes, which is afraid of higher production costs or a decline in sales of goods preferred by devoted customers.
The Make America Healthy Once movement and Mr. Kennedy’s increase “are making the food companies specifically enthralled,” according to the document.
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” When political ideologies are used to create anxiety and reject the role of research, it undermines public confidence in food security and can cause consumers, particularly those in vulnerable populations, to gain access to safe, nutrient-dense foods”, Sarah Gallo, a senior vice president of merchandise policy for the Consumer Brands Association, a lobbying group for the food and beverage industry, told the New York Times.
The article also mentions that it might not be simple to change the food industry’s formulations.
But here is the best part. Note carefully how the New York Times attempts to fact-check Kennedy’s claims about artificial ingredients.
Nearly a decade ago, companies responded to public pressure, and Kellogg’s, Mars and General Mills removed synthetic colors from cereals and snacks. Some businesses claimed that because consumers lacked the vibrant colors, their sales slowed, and they turned to those ingredients instead.
Mr. Kennedy cited Froot Loops as an example of a product that contains too many artificial ingredients, and he wondered why there were fewer in Canada than in the United States. But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U. S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used” for freshness”, according to the ingredient label. ]emphasis added]
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Yeah, they’re roughly the same ingredients… except for all of the artificial ingredients! How silly of RFK Jr. to use Froot Loops as an example!
No one said this would be easy, but if public health is, in reality, a priority for everyone, the message would n’t be to undermine or dismiss Kennedy’s goals but to point out how necessary they are.
