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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The biggest roadblock is the power of vested interests of…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22

Published | Video Starts at 23:40

And we tried to be conservative and tell parents, you know, we're not mandating that you can't eat this or can't eat that, but here's what you should shoot for. What's the biggest roadblock in trying to make America healthy again? I mean, The biggest roadblock is the power of vested interests of the pharmaceutical cartel and of the, you know, big food and an economic system that through nobody's particular fault has rewarded very, very addictive foods. And, you know, a lot of that was deliberate. In the 1980s, I was peripherally involved in the tobacco cases. (23:40–24:04)

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Asserts that vested interests of pharmaceutical and food industries are major obstacles to making America healthy.

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