Can't read the full article, but even The Atlantic is praising RFK Jr's latest move
Go psychopath, as Chris would label him.
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/food-dye-crackdown-rfk-jr/682548/
Replies to: Can't read the full article, but even The Atlantic is praising RFK Jr's latest move
From that Atlantic article...the author is not extolling RFK Jr. as the consummate HHS Director...
...you're just like every other MAGA...blind to any and all information that doesn't fit your bubble in a VEN diagram.
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The FDA has historically taken years to formally ban just a single food ingredient. It took nearly three years to act on a petition to ban Red 3 in food, despite the fact that scientific studies showed decades ago that the dye causes cancer in rats. At least some of that slowness is by design. Regulators need to document legitimate harm that is caused by these products, and that process can take years. The FDA’s job also has become even more difficult in light of the mass layoffs that have played out in the early days of Donald Trump’s second presidency. Among the 89 staffers from the FDA’s food center are nine people specifically tasked with reviewing additives in foods, according to Jim Jones, a former head of the center. (He resigned in protest of the layoffs in February.)
Either way, the speed with which the food industry phases out these dyes should not be seen as the true measure of just how successful RFK Jr. is. Cracking down on food dyes has become a major plank of the MAHA platform, but the chemicals are nowhere near the biggest impediment to making America healthy again. The true test will be how Kennedy and his movement deals with much more pressing, and intractable, challenges in the American diet. Even without synthetic dyes in our foods, Americans will still overwhelmingly be eating ultra-processed foods loaded with excess sodium and sugar. This doesn’t seem to be a point lost on Kennedy, who issued a stern warning today that “sugar is poison.” And yet, he hasn’t articulated any plans to eliminate the ingredient from our food. Phasing out food dyes is easy, at least in comparison with tackling these bigger issues. The real test of the MAHA movement will be not whether it can get the red dye out of Skittles, but whether it can persuade Americans to forgo the Skittles altogether.
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Then there's RFK Jr.'s Autism and Vaccine history, as well as thoughtless cuts to vital government health programs...
Food dye crackdown, finally.
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