and this is coming from the guy that uses “methylene blue in his drinks”
I’m not sure this will matter a whole lot with his dismantling of food safety testing. I mean hasn’t he basically preemptively defeated this by ensuring it’s virtually impossible to enforce?
Exactly. How are you going to make American food healthy and in the same breath defund the FDA?
guess i’llhave to stock up
I barely agree with RFK Jr. on anything but this is a good move in my opinion. Unfortunately most of our food is so adultered and hyperpalatable and engineered for bulk consumption that we as a country cannot escape the chronic conditions that arise from its consumption. There is NO nutritional need for artificial food colorings, why is it there other than to convince you to eat the food.
I mean yes but I view this stuff as deeply unserious in the US politics.
If RFK actually cared he would ban high fructose corn syrup from food. Or implement a sugar/calorie ban. Or focus on incentivizing exercise in everyday life. Or limiting/taxing fast food. Or force portion regulations to be stricter, even banning certain portions of things like soda.
There are one million billion things the US government could do to improve health and they’re doing essentially nothing by going after something that (probably) impacts us very little in comparison with the entire rest of the industry.
Call it what it is: pandering. They know that this has broad general support so they get brownie points while doing very little to actually help us.
While you’re right that there’s no nutritional value to food coloring, not everything needs to be nutritionally optimal. “Looks appealing” is desirable in its own right.
We should justify food ingredients based on functional necessity and harmlessness, not on a strict criteria of nutritional necessity.
Give RFK the win on this one, and maybe he’ll leave vaccines alone. Oh, who am I kidding with this adminsitration.
We solved autism boys! Mark that one for the brain worms! Maybe now if we end GM corn this piece of shit will get his voice back!
Oh, so then all the problems should be solved right after that huh? No more autism, or shingles, or whatever the fuck you said those dyes do right?
I mean otherwise your just lying jackoffs that pander to the stupidest people you can con…
