Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Friday that one of the main reasons he backed Donald Trump for president was the chance to help “Make America Healthy Again” in a Trump government.
Kennedy asked, “Don’t you want good kids? Don’t you want zero chemicals in our food? And don’t you want the governing bodies to be free of corporate bribery? That’s what Trump told me he wanted.”
Time magazine published a piece a few days later called “What if Ultra-Processed Foods Aren’t as Bad as You Think?” that hinted at a possible change in the story about American health.
Kennedy didn’t want to buy what Time seemed to be selling, so he tweeted, “Yeah, what if? What if fast foods are even worse than you think?”
The new Trump supporter was reacting to a post by Dr. Casey Means, co-founder of the food-health monitoring company Levels. Means criticized Time for what seemed to be an attempt to improve the public’s view of ultra-processed foods in the Monday story.
This is what Means wrote on X: “Mainstream media strategy. When society seems to be moving toward health, quickly write a BS piece (like this one that came out in TIME yesterday) to cause confusion.”
Kennedy also said, “And don’t talk about the fact that NGOs like the NAACP and Diabetes groups get money from marketers for prepared foods.”
In 2021, health reporter Jamie Ducharme caused a stir when he said that harmful side effects of vaccines were “normal.” In a controversial article for Time, Wilson wrote about how pro-obesity dietician Jessica Wilson was upset about the success and conclusions of a real doctor’s recent book about the effects of highly processed foods.
Ducharme wrote:
“Wilson, whose job it is to help people from disadvantaged groups, was angry. She thought that van Tulleken’s experiment got too much attention and that the news coverage of it made people who eat processed foods feel bad about themselves. This includes most Americans, especially the millions who don’t have access to fresh food or are food insecure. These people are usually poor and of color. Wilson thought that the buzz didn’t talk about this “food apartheid” or the huge range of foods that are called ultra-processed.”
