If there's a thread on this already, sorry, please merge. Nothing recent comes up in a search for Kennedy and you can't search for three letters like RFK.
I think he's the most interesting Trump nominee because he's bad on stuff like vaccines and very conspiracy theory prone but he's better than anyone in recent memory on processed foods and chemicals in foods. He could be a disaster but he could also get good things done.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may need every vote he can get to win confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services.
No Senate Democrats have said they’d back Kennedy yet.
But New Jersey’s Cory Booker shares RFK Jr.’s concerns about the U.S. food system, as he made clear in a post to X this morning, which said that the system prioritizes “corporations feeding us unhealthy products” while flooding us with “dangerous chemicals.”
Kennedy took note, thanking Booker in a post “for your long history of leadership on this issue.”
Last week, Booker, who tries to stay healthy by avoiding processed sugar and animal products, acknowledged that he and Kennedy have had similar ideas on the connection between food and health — but said he didn’t trust the coming Trump administration.
“I feel like he’s lifted paragraphs from my speech talking about this crisis,” Booker said of Kennedy. “Color me skeptical about a president that did a lot of things in his last administration to undermine people's access to healthy, quality food, tried to lower nutrition standards and do the kind of things that [are] not making America healthy.”
I think he's the most interesting Trump nominee because he's bad on stuff like vaccines and very conspiracy theory prone but he's better than anyone in recent memory on processed foods and chemicals in foods. He could be a disaster but he could also get good things done.
I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited:
“Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval.
"In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good
“We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people!
He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.
Sen. Cory Booker sounds like RFK Jr. — or vice versa
Both are concerned about corporations pushing unhealthy food.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may need every vote he can get to win confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services.
No Senate Democrats have said they’d back Kennedy yet.
But New Jersey’s Cory Booker shares RFK Jr.’s concerns about the U.S. food system, as he made clear in a post to X this morning, which said that the system prioritizes “corporations feeding us unhealthy products” while flooding us with “dangerous chemicals.”
Kennedy took note, thanking Booker in a post “for your long history of leadership on this issue.”
Last week, Booker, who tries to stay healthy by avoiding processed sugar and animal products, acknowledged that he and Kennedy have had similar ideas on the connection between food and health — but said he didn’t trust the coming Trump administration.
“I feel like he’s lifted paragraphs from my speech talking about this crisis,” Booker said of Kennedy. “Color me skeptical about a president that did a lot of things in his last administration to undermine people's access to healthy, quality food, tried to lower nutrition standards and do the kind of things that [are] not making America healthy.”
