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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Well, I'm not saying that we're going to regulate ultra…”

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

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RFK. Jr. pins America's obesity on ultraprocessed food, calls it "poison" | 60 Minutes

Published | Video Starts at 12:08

My belief that I will prevail is because we have the President behind us. But the president has shown himself to be pretty much against regulations. So why would he support regulating ultra processed foods? Well, I'm not saying that we're going to regulate ultra processed food. Our job is to make sure that everybody understands what they're getting, to have an informed public. There are Americans who live in so called food deserts with little access to whole foods. And these are foods that many of them can't afford anyway. (12:08–12:19)

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Asserts that the goal is to inform the public about ultra processed foods, not regulate them.

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