RFK Jr. Says He Plans On Getting Rid Of 'Entire Departments' At FDA And CDC In Alarming Interview
RFK Jr. Says He Plans On Getting Rid Of 'Entire Departments' At FDA And CDC In Alarming Interview
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"Why do we have Fruit Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it’s got two or three?"
Goddammit don't make me agree with RFKJr. With that said I have a feeling we'd disagree on how to rectify it.
Anything's possible with lies.
Here's Canada's label:
https://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/en_CA/Product/Index/00064100492455#ingredients
Also, who the hell thinks cereal, least of all, fucking Fruit Loops, is some kind of health food?
No they list the ingredients on the front of the box. Fruit and Loops.
No, man, that's in Canada where it's natural. In the States, we use Froot. They're Froot Loops.
That's why we need RFK, maaaaaaaaaan.
You really think any kellogs cereal has “two or three” ingredients, anywhere?
Canadian ingredients
- Sugars (sugar, maltodextrin)
- Whole grain corn flour
- Wheat flour
- Whole grain oat flour
- Degerminated corn flour
- Corn bran
- Oat hull fibre
- Hydrogenated coconut and vegetable oil
- Salt
- Concentrated carrot juice (for colour)
- Anthocyanin
- Annatto
- Turmeric
- Natural flavour
- Concentrated watermelon juice (for colour)
- Concentrated blueberry juice (for colour)
- Concentrated huito juice (for colour)
- Stevia leaf extract
- Vitamins and minerals:
Iron - Niacinamide
- Zinc oxide
- Thiamine hydrochloride
- D-calcium pantothenate
- Cholecalciferol (vitamin D3)
- Pyridoxine hydrochloride
- Folic acid
And, for reference, the US ingredients list:
- Corn flour blend (whole grain yellow corn flour, degerminated yellow corn flour)
- sugar
- wheat flour
- whole grain oat flour
- modified food starch
- contains 2% or less of vegetable oil (hydrogenated coconut, soybean and/or cottonseed)
- oat fiber
- maltodextrin
- salt
- soluble corn fiber
- natural flavor
- red 40
- yellow 5
- blue 1
- yellow 6
- Vitamins and Minerals:
- Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
- reduced iron
- niacinamide
- vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride)
- vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
- vitamin B1 (thiamin hydrochloride)
- folic acid
- vitamin D3
- vitamin B12
Which is basically the same. Biggest difference seems to be the food coloring.
If this is an actual problem, the solution is to use the FDA to make food healthier or have less junk ingredients or whatever. Getting rid of oversight isn't going to do that. The FDA is what's keeping rat turds from being the main ingredient
Rat turds are expensive. Sawdust is much cheaper.
Only because sawdust is a plentiful byproduct of other industrial activity. Allow rat meat in your pies and the rat turds will flow!
I pay extra for the flavor
Maybe in many cases it's a difference in labeling requirements, and the content is identical?
Definitely not saying always, but the way this is conflated regularly to promote quackery is disheartening.
That said, US brand soda and corn syrup can eat a bag of dicks.
This is such a trump voter comment. lol
Even if it does, trading fewer additives for more outbreaks of easily preventable diseases is probably not going to be a net gain. I'm also curious how this kind of thing would be enforced if we also gut the departments.
Note also that it's not the FDA mandating those additives, the companies want them. Reducing oversight means more additives and/or worse additives so long as it aligns with the company's interest.