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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told

Published March 23, 2026 | Video Starts at 29:38

But President Trump is looking at an issue that is existential for American farming. American farmers are already in deep trouble and they depend on glyphosate. So, for example, 98% of the corn that we produce in this country uses glyphosate, 98% of the soy. And if you didn't, if we didn't have glyphosate, if you banned it overnight, it would throw our entire food system into people. (29:38–29:50)

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Asserts that 98% of U.S. corn and soy production uses glyphosate.

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“77% of American teens can't qualify for military service because of obesity or autoimmune diseases or other chronic diseases.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 00:31-00:43
“Today, 38% of teens, American teens are diabetic or pre diabetic.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 01:53-02:00
“Today it's 1 in every 31 kids [with autism]. California is 1 in 19 kids, 1 in 12.5 boys.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 02:27-02:35
“70% of American children's diet is the average American kid. 70% of their calories are coming from ultra processed food.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 12:37-12:52
“We have only 4.2% of the world's population, but we provide 70% of the revenue, 70% of the profits for the pharmaceutical industry.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 23:53-24:04
“A year ago you could get the list price for Ozempic in this country was $1350. You could get the same product in any pharmacy in London for…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 24:07-24:19
“The Chinese controlled 99% of glyphosate production.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 30:07-30:11
“We're allowing a hundred billion dollars a year to be stolen from Medicaid, Medicare alone, 100 billion at least.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 57:42-57:50
“The Somali mob in Minnesota... the autism care program in Minneapolis should have cost us about $3 million a year. It was costing us 400…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:01:03-1:02:55
“We pay two to three times more for healthcare per capita than any of the industrialized countries.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 00:12-00:20
“We spend now... 4.3 trillion a year and it's the fastest growing budget item.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 00:44-00:59
“About 40% of every federal dollar goes to healthcare and 90% of that is to treat food induced diet induced chronic diseases.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 01:00-01:12
“There's a researcher at Harvard called Chris Palmer who is actually dramatically reducing the impacts of schizophrenia. Simply by changing…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 03:10-03:24
“When they switch from prison, typical prison food to real food, violence level goes down by 40 or 50%.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 03:58-04:06
“The use of restraints and juvenile detention facilities go down by 75%.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 04:06-04:11
“You had this explosion of chronic disease really happen in the mid-1990s.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 05:07-05:13
“By 1995, the two biggest food companies in the world were RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris, which are both cigarette companies.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 05:48-05:56
“The food industry also captured FDA around that time.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 07:07-07:12
“In 1958 we passed a law. The FDA began regulating the ingredients in food.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 08:16-08:25
“There's probably around 10,000 ingredients in our food and Europe has only 400.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 09:53-10:01
“Our food became the most chemically laden with all of these ingredients that had slipped through the grass loophole.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 10:05-10:14
“We changed the grass loophole so that we've closed it.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 10:14-10:19
“Sugar is addictive as crack and it's very, very bad for you.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 11:14-11:20
“The food pyramid was also hijacked by big companies like Procter and Gamble.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 11:57-12:02
“Fruit Loops is not a food. And yet it was at the top of the food pyramid.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 13:37-13:42
“The USDA alone spends $405 million a day on food subsidies.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 15:09-15:16
“Those food subsidies go to the SNAP program, they go to school lunches, they go to wix, they go to Head Start, they go to Indian Health…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 15:15-15:29
“Robert Irvine is making locally sourced, high quality food, not even frozen.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 17:35-17:44
“The military is spending, has allocated $18.50 a day per soldier, that's what they spend on food.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 17:57-18:06
“The dietary guidelines, I think are really going to be transformative in a generational way.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 23:24-23:30
“We had the highest priced drugs in the world in our country.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 23:49-23:54
“With all the brand drugs, you would pay 2, 3, 4, 5, even 15 times more of the same product in this country as you would in Europe.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 24:21-24:32
“Eli Lilly is building six new plants here, including a huge one in Texas.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 26:23-26:28
“Nova Nordisk is building, I think four new plants in North Carolina.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 26:30-26:35
“The whole drug industry is now moving to the United States because of President Trump's leadership and because of the tariffs.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 26:40-26:47
“We now have the lowest drug prices in the world.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 26:50-26:53
“Americans today can go on Trump Rx and they can get, for the, they're now, I don't know, like 40 drugs on Trump Rx, the most popular drugs.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 27:00-27:10
“The executive order said we're going to onshore glyphosate production to this country and also the production of elemental phosphorus.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 28:14-28:29
“The US Government intervened on behalf of the industry in a Supreme Court case debating federal preemption.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 28:29-29:04
“Bear, which is threatening because they've paid $11 billion in a case that I brought.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 30:35-30:41
“They have another $7.6 billion settlement for some more cases, and they have 65,000 more cases.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 30:41-30:48
“Most farmers in this country are losing money seven out of 10 years.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 31:42-31:47
“A new technology... shoots lasers at all the weeds... and it's being widely used now in vegetable fields in this country.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 32:10-32:32
“She's spending fifteen hundred dollars a month on pesticides and on human labor.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 32:46-32:52
“The onions are ready three weeks early, which is another huge deal for farmers.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 33:23-33:30
“Her productivity per acre is up by 30%.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 33:30-33:34
“We're doing, for the first time, we're looking at the ingredients of baby formula that are not listed. In other words, contaminants, PFAS…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 45:26-45:40
“We're also doing the first update on the nutrition standards, because we know a lot more about nutrition now, about infant nutrition than we…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 45:57-46:06
“We gave over 10,000 studies to the court.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 48:04-48:08
“The court ordered the FCC to redo its guidelines.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 48:08-48:17
“The guidelines that we have are based upon thermal effect, which means that they don't kick in until the phone literally begins to raise the…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 48:27-48:45
“There's studies by a guy called George Carlo who was, who was hired by the industry actually to defend cell phones.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 49:02-49:13
“George Carlo produced all of these studies that show that kids who, children who use cell phones for even 10 minutes, their brain, their…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 49:13-49:29
“We have SNAP waivers now. You know, we've asked all the states to file them and there's 25 states that have, have filed them.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 53:16-53:24
“About 10, 18% of food stamp money is used on sodas, 10% on sodas, sugar sodas was the worst thing you can do to a kid.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 53:37-53:50
“We're paying 63 million kids or the poorest kids who get food stamps and those kids then drink that Coke, they get diabetes and 78% of them…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 54:09-54:24
“The agency was not doing its job at all. It's the biggest agency in the history of any government.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 56:50-57:00
“They were ordered by the Biden White House not to do program integrity, in other words, not to enforce against fraud.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 58:20-58:28
“In a red state, Florida, there is a giant industry for durable medical equipment... more than the whole nation combined.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 59:04-1:02:42
“In Los Angeles, there's more hospice companies than the entire nation combined. They're mainly operated by Russian hamsters.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:00:10-1:00:19
“They made that system, it's called a waiver system, with the good intentions that it would be good to take care of people in their own homes…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:03:36-1:03:47
“It was immediately abused.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:03:49-1:03:51
“The number one job in New York, of all the jobs in New York, of all the industries that that state has, number one occupation is home care.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:03:52-1:04:03
“There was a shortage of GLPs for a while, and so you had the compounding pharmacies make it because they could legally make it during the…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:14:53-1:14:58
“Now there's no shortage. And not only that, but the price has now dropped dramatically.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:14:58-1:15:04
“We're also now enforcing against the compounders who are doing mass marketing, which they're not legally allowed to do anyway.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:15:08-1:15:15
“The API plants that actually make the components of that GLP are inspected by the FDA. They're mainly in China or India.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:15:56-1:16:05
“The Biden administration illegally moved 19 peptides to category two.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:16:13-1:16:21
“If you're buying the peptides from a, from, you know, a research grade peptide or an animal peptide, you have no idea what you're getting…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:17:29-1:17:43
“My objective for 20 years has been to end the chronic disease epidemic, and I think we're going to make a dent in it in the next three…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Truth About America's Health Crisis You're Not Being Told | Uploaded March 23, 2026 | 1:19:16-1:19:27