R.F.K. Jr.’s War on Corn Syrup Brings a Health Crusade to Trump Country
R.F.K. Jr.’s War on Corn Syrup Brings a Health Crusade to Trump Country
When Donald J. Trump said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could “go wild” on health, he might not have expected his pick for health secretary doing battle against the president-elect’s own voters.
RFK might actually end up being chaotic good. It's really just going to come down to what he ends up focusing. Legalization of harmless drugs and a deeper look at the root of American obesity? Sounds great! Banning vaccines and removing labelling requirements? Literally bringing us back to the early 1900s.
He's not chaotic good, he is chaotic evil. It's just that every now at then his chaos sword hits an actual bad thing, that doesn't make him good at all.
Holy shit, he’s actually against something that’s harmful.
He's also pro-psychedelics, which is fantastic. We have decades of research and normalization to catch up on.
He's his own brand of crazy. We're still better off without him by about a trillion percent. Not even close to worth it.
Is corn syrup more harmful than other sugar sources? Probably not. But it would be nice to be able to afford food that's not loaded with it.
Yeah people don't realize that "high fructose" corn syrup used in food products, actually has less fructose than regular sugar. It's mostly just beverages that are more, and it's arguable how much that 5% difference actually matters.
This crusade vs HFCS is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of the maxim “Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while”.
That's a stupid maxim, pigs have an excellent sense of smell.
What are you? A reviewer for a scientific journal or something?
He's not wrong, our food in the U.S. sucks, and corn syrup is a big part of it. I hate to agree with someone who's so far advanced an incredibly anti-science view of health. But, he has a point on this one.
Good luck going against big corn. The US pays lots of money to destroy corn 🌽 that is deliberately kept off the market to maintain corn prices for producers. Aside from war and oil, corn is America's other economic obsession.
Agreed, but I have doubts that this will be a massive improvement if the same amount of other sugars are used. I'm sure some things would reduce sugar to fit with production, but if some foods just became gritty (or, soda with sugar sinking to the bottom) I would not be shocked.
Particularly because that seems like the easy-but-wrong-answer. Not that "maybe we shouldn't make sugar cheaper than water" and "food doesn't need to be loaded with sugar to taste good" should be unpopular opinions.
Making soda less appetizing sounds like a win, too
He really is a grab bag full of good ideas and the worst ideas.
I think the antivax shit started that way too, with either crunchy or soccer moms helicopter parenting their kids and worrying about what chemicals they were ingesting from processed food. Then the fake autism link came out and it scared some of those types to go too far in the other direction into vax denialism (the orange cultists came much later and had different reasons).
RFK Jr did some good environmental work awhile back but he bought into a ton of bullshit under the guise of "natural" is always better so he's got a ton of wacky ideas bumping around with a few good ones in there.
Broken clock but I'm here for it
Yup, this one might accidentally be good for American health.
Don't know if I'd say accidentally in this case but I agree. Now we wait for the corn lobbyists to tear it apart
The brain worm is suffering from all the fast food on the Trump plane.
no the fast food is good for the brain worm
the brain worm wants the fast food
Those Iowa senators are going to love this shit.
Iowa farmers: We're voting Republican because we can't stand socialism. Also Iowa farmers: Where's our federal welfare in corn subsidies?
Fucken welfare queens.
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, all of them will be hurtimg between this and the promise of a trade war with China that they didn't recover from during Trump's first disastrous term.
They will get plenty of Federal welfare in the form of Trump's expanded Ethanol subsidies.
Only good thing RFK might do, but might be balanced out by rolling out a red carpet for polio.
Can’t have fat kids who don’t fit in the iron lung bro.