In his official bid to “Make Our Children Healthy Again,” Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falls in need of any strong sport plan.
Launched Tuesday, Kennedy’s report—detailing how the Trump administration plans to deal with issues like meals advertising to kids, pesticides, and meals dyes—appears to lack any precise roadmaps, solely promising to “explore” these points.
President Donald Trump sits beside Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“HHS and FTC, along with other relevant agencies, will explore the development of potential industry guidelines to limit the direct marketing of certain unhealthy foods to children, including by evaluating the use of misleading claims and imagery,” the report reads.
However in accordance with Marion Nestle, New York College professor emerita of vitamin, meals research, and public well being, the report doesn’t have a lot substance.
She went on to say that the report is “short of specifics and weak on regulatory actions,” echoing an analogous sentiment from professionals when the preliminary report leaked.
Kennedy was given flack for his flip-flop method to widespread meals pesticides like glyphosate and atrazine. Whereas he used to seek advice from pesticide big Monsanto—now owned by Bayer—as his “Lex Luther,” the brand new report means that these chemical substances may dwell to see one other day.
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“EPA, partnering with food and agricultural stakeholders, will work to ensure that the public has awareness and confidence in EPA’s pesticide robust review procedures and how that relates to the limiting of risk for users and the general public and informs continual improvement,” Kennedy’s report mentioned.
And whereas the report doesn’t explicitly talk about SSRIs, that are used to deal with despair, Kennedy mentioned throughout a press convention Tuesday that the Nationwide Institutes for Well being intend to discover the right-wing principle that they play a task within the rise of college shootings.
“We had lots of guns when we were kids,” Kennedy mentioned. “Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.”
