2mo ago

RFK slams processed foods, pesticides, vaccines as harmful to kids in sweeping MAHA report

www.usatoday.com

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It’s like half of this shit out often this guy’s mouth is totally legit stuff that needed more attention, and the other half is completely bat shit crazy.
“Processed food are bad.” Yup, not shit.
“Covid vaccines aren’t safe for healthy people.” WTF are you talking about? We have given billions of doses and we know how these things perform.
- He believes in some weird ass pseudo-science. Once you understand that it ALL makes sense. He’s fucking nuts.
- He has good intentions and I genuinely think he's probably a pretty good person, but he doesn't have the necessary training to know what's real and what's made up so he just follows his gut. This is not the right job for him.
  
  I recommend watching his recent congressional testimony, and then see if you still feel this way. You’re right, this is not the right job for him, but I strongly disagree that he has good intentions and is a good person. Everything I’ve seen on him convinces me otherwise.
  
  Talk to his relatives who grew up with him, like Caroline Kennedy. He's always been a whack job, a junkie, and used to torment his cousins, and try to get them to get into drugs, and other trouble, with him.
  He's been a bad seed since he was a kid.
So the guy who swims in raw sewage, eats road kill, and had a brain worm is lecturing on health concerns.
If he was saying "learn from my mistakes!" that would be one thing. But no, he's going off on some things (vaccines, and fluoride in water) based on deeply-flawed conspiracy theories and in spite of the fact that there is a lot of good science and evidence refuting said conspiracies.
The food colorings and pesticides points are reasonable. But he's mixing some legit concerns with complete bullshit ones.
- Don’t forget the decade of heroin use
Vaccines will get the most attention...but even though our use of pesticides is damaging to say the least, I'm pretty sure our agricultural base would collapse without them.
- Sure, but it could be one of the best things for the environment. If crops are suddenly more expensive because of pests, then meat becomes more expensive to produce, then more land is left to re-wild because farming is not as lucrative.
  We already grow more than enough food to feed everyone. If we're worried about people being able to afford food, then let's subsidize that instead of ethanol and corn syrup.
  
  I get this is a pitch for forced veganism, but this is basically only a few degrees off of "if we let a bunch of humans die we would solve the climate crisis."
  Pest blights can wipe out entire harvests, not just a clean, manageable percentage of yields. People would go hungry and die. Our current population levels depend on pesticides and fertilizers in industrial quantities, and that surplus of food you mention would quickly deplete without them.
Slams! Duh duduh duh duduh let boys be boys

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