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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “When we came into office, Alex, the week after I got in, I…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:21

And that makes your mind explode. When that dawned on me when I was a much younger person. Speak to us about this because this is historic that you removed that. When we came into office, Alex, the week after I got in, I was handed a DOC of 453 pages long, which was the food dietary guidelines that the Biden administration had developed over four years. And they were incomprehensible. They were clearly written by food industry lobbyists. And again, they reflected the commercial aspirations of those companies rather than public health. And we threw them out. And we brought real nutritionists in from the best universities in the country, the most prestigious universities. (06:21–06:45)

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Asserts that the dietary guidelines developed by the Biden administration were influenced by food industry lobbyists.

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