Can Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. ‘Make America Healthy Again’?

Photo caption: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Donald Trump shake hands during a campaign rally on August 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. Photo credit: Rebecca Noble, Getty Images. Article by Lisa Held. Civil Eats – October 9, 2024.

Marion Nestle watched, deeply surprised, last month as bits and pieces of her long-time efforts to sound alarms about food industry influence on research and government trickled out of a Capitol Hill roundtable hosted by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the former presidential candidate now stumping for Donald Trump. Skyrocketing rates of chronic disease connected to unhealthy food production? Conflicts of interest between business and government? “This is an old story—for me, anyway,” Nestle—who is a member of Civil Eats’ advisory board—explained. […]

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