Politico posted an article today claiming that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gaining approval by focusing on his criticism of Big Pharma and Big Ag.
The article claims that RFK is a normal politician! He wants people to eat healthy foods!He is against ultra processed foods, even if you saw the photo of him eating a Big Mac on Trump’s plane.
Despite initial resistance, Bobby is winning people over:
Less than a month later, however, some of Kennedy’s other views — especially on food — are surprisingly taking root on Capitol Hill. There’s still considerable resistance to Kennedy — and no certainty that he gets confirmed by the Senate. But his attacks on Big Ag and Big Pharma are resonating and RFK is finding allies among some populists who share the goal of taking on big corporate interests.
Ignore the fact that he is opposed to vaccines. Ignore the fact that dozens of children died in Samoa after he brought news that (in his view) measles vaccines cause measles.
Ignore the fact that he recently claimed that heroin improved his school performance.
Shame on Politico.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should not run our nation’s healthcare system. Maybe a food safety program. But NOT the Department of Health and Human Services!
He is an extremist who opposes science.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Good grief! Glad politico gets $0.00 from me.
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The other day a conservative friend launched into a diatribe about Michelle Obama’s attempt to get healthy lunches into schools, blaming her for children not having sufficient food. If conservatives now try to re-habilitate Robert II because he is doing the same thing, I might die laughing.
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What’s bad about advocating healthy foods? Some conservatives would hate Michelle O even if she supported giving them money
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“Nanny State.”
Hence the irony of people embracing RFK Jr.’s nannyism.
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Where I live, certain favorite highly processed foods became verboten in the lunchroom. Moreover, portions were reduced in lunch lines to meet caloric requirements instead of buying good food and preparing it. This led to children complaining mightily about Obama not letting them eat. It was, of course, the Republican super majority that was refusing them food, not Obama, but that escaped their minds. Now those kids add to the super majority.
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My children were in elementary school (a Title I school)when Michelle Obama’s healthy eating initiative went into effect. I volunteered once a week and I stayed through the lunch shift. The amount of food that was thrown away would blow your mind! None of the kids wanted to eat brown lettuce and mealy apples with whatever it was that they called “meat”. It quickly went from 3 trash cans a shift to 5-6. Don’t even get me started with the chemical, artificial sweeteners in the drinks, but taking the hot sauce off the table on taco tuesday (soy bits instead of meat) because it had too much salt was a step too far. Poor kids would rather go hungry than eat what they were served. And I live in a well funded school district.
Great idea, but as usual, VERY POOR implementation and way underfunded.
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America is going “STUPID.”
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“. . . is going. . . . “????
We dun past STUPID quite a while ago.
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Thanks, Duane. 👍
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This is just the latest of a growing list of sanewashing and apologia for Trump and MAGAist policies that has come from Politico. Respect for Politico is fading fast.
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Give the guy a break. There were probably only BIG Macs on Trump’s plane
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Who owns Politico these days?
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Good question.
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Sorry, but I’m going to take the good with the bad on this one! If RFK Jr is willing to take on Big Pharma and Big AG, I can ignore his more radical views on vaccines (which I don’t find very radical at all). It is a KNOWN fact that Big Pharma gets to pick and choose the data that it wants to use to get its new product to market and that they mess with the laws on generics. There really are drugs that should NEVER have been released into the drug market….and some vaccines included. And….I’m really tired of chemicals being added to my foods.
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Lisa, surely there is a Republican who acknowledges that vaccines have saved millions of lives and that Big Pharma and Big Ag need more regulation, not less.
Why choose?
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Another point is that the RFK Jr. critiques of Big Pharma and Big Ag are the least likely to get actual traction in a Trump administration and remain solely on the level of rhetoric alone, while his negative influence on medical research and vaccine development could cause countless cases of preventable death and disability.
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Excellent point about RFK Jr
Trump administration is highly unlikely to impose regs on Big Pharma and Big Ag, no matter what Bobby wants.
But he may well stop vaccine testing and use his position to frighten parents and spread lies about vaccines.
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