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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “There's now very, very promising technology to replace…”

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

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Moolenaar Questions Secretary RFK Jr. in Budget Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 05:28

And I appreciate the fact that you recognize our dependency on China with that and as we look for alternatives that may be better fitted, that it's not a knee jerk reaction on that. So thank you. And I think, you know, There's now very, very promising technology to replace intensive pesticide use, particularly in sugar beet fields, less so with corn and soy laser technology, laser weed killing technology. which is now beginning to proliferate around the country and kind of promises an era of chemical free agriculture. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back. (05:28–05:54)

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Asserts that promising laser technology exists to replace pesticide use in agriculture.

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