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Why the Food Industry and the Left Really Hate MAHA Ambassador RFK Jr.
New York Post ^ | Sep. 7, 2025 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 09/08/2025 11:37:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Of all Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, it’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who attracts the most vitriol, which is saying something. You could see just how much the Health and Human Services secretary is despised last week at a Senate committee hearing when Democrat after Democrat abused him with slurs like “charlatan” and demanded he resign. There is an orchestrated campaign to force him out that includes the overplayed political ploy of an “open letter from nine former CDC leaders” and another letter from 1,000 current and former HHS employees calling on him to step down.

But why would he resign? He’s only just getting started on Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, which is popular with Americans of all stripes, especially Republicans, 73% of whom rated it favorably in the latest Insider Advantage poll. It addresses public concern that transcends party lines about chronic disease, food safety and vaccine skepticism, the latter of which can be blamed on the lies we were told during the COVID-19 pandemic, not on RFK Jr.’s six months in office.

MAHA is a threat to powerful entrenched interests, and RFK Jr. is under siege from all sides as he tries to implement his plans to solve chronic disease in the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigfood; bigpharma; foodindustry; maha; mirandadevine; rfkjr
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To: Karoo
Check out Sickening - How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare, by Dr. John Abramson, 2022.
21 posted on 09/08/2025 1:27:47 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: nickcarraway; All

Comments identifying domestic enemies. BUMP!


22 posted on 09/08/2025 2:34:27 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Wuli

A great suggestion.


23 posted on 09/08/2025 3:38:31 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: nickcarraway

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an update to Mexico’s 2014 front-of-pack nutrition labels (FOPNL), and part of a wave of Latin American countries—starting with Chile in 2012—that are implementing laws to curb obesity.

“Eighty percent of my patients have health problems related to junk food,” Rito said. “Our region is very different from central and southern Mexico where they eat more vegetables and fruit.”

“In Mexico, there are high rates of arthritis problems,” Guadiana said. “Eighty percent of my patients have [arthritic] conditions related to obesity.”

70 percent of the kids he[another doctor] sees have insulin resistance.

There is ample evidence of a decline in the purchase of unhealthy products following the implementation of the black octagon warning labels

“I think these Latin American countries have done an excellent job, because despite having limited resources, they are producing much more effective policies there than here in the United States”

https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/look-food-warning-labels-mexico


24 posted on 09/08/2025 5:29:10 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway

LOL — the advertising panel beside the article at the NYPost is full of anti-tariff scare mongering about rising food costs. Advertisers inject their topics via keywords, hooking this propaganda onto a story about MAHA. It would appear that when an online news source signs on to an advertising package, they have to take what they get, like cable tv packages containing smut along with the sports and children’s shows.

Tariffs may make some prices rise in many sectors of the economy until more and more small local farming and manufacturing returns to U.S. soil and overzealous regulation is curbed. With the advent of microeconomic delivery systems like DoorDash, UberEats, etc, consumers’ and grocery chains’ over-reliance on prepared or frozen food full of additives instead of fresh food can be reduced.


25 posted on 09/09/2025 10:21:19 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“We’re redoing DC parks, all new grass. I’m good at grass; I have a lot of golf courses.” —DJ Trump)
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To: Brian Griffin
“Eighty percent of my patients have health problems related to junk food,” Rito said. “Our region is very different from central and southern Mexico where they eat more vegetables and fruit.”

Neighbors recently had work done on their house by some (legal) immigrants. When the homeowners offered the workers a selection of snacks and bottled drinks, they were surprised and impressed that the Mexican workers always chose healthy things like aloe water or coconut water instead of sodas, and cherry tomatoes or grapes instead of potato chips.

26 posted on 09/09/2025 10:29:06 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“We’re redoing DC parks, all new grass. I’m good at grass; I have a lot of golf courses.” —DJ Trump)
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To: 1Old Pro
If more people knew what food is supposed to taste like they'd be in revolt. I grew up visiting relatives in SE Kentucky eating fresh farm food. Then traveled most of the world, and lived and worked in Belgium for three years. What is served up today in America is more comparable to cardboard than food. And that's not counting the genuinely harmful (but cheaper) ingredients and additives which most of the world has banned.

RFK is a typical Kennedy. That closet of his is filled to bursting with skeletons. But like Trump, the instrument may be imperfect but both are doing God's work.

27 posted on 09/09/2025 8:12:39 PM PDT by katana (888)
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To: katana
If more people knew what food is supposed to taste like they'd be in revolt.

when people visit Italy they RAVE about the food, because it's generally all natural. As you say, unlike here in America.

28 posted on 09/10/2025 6:15:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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