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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “When you give people in prisons real food, the violence goes…”

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

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RFK Jr. sounds the alarm: This is 'DESTROYING' public health

Published | Video Starts at 02:25

Despite what the New York Times says, There's 75 years of peer reviewed science that show that improving your health is going to improve even the symptoms of schizophrenia, of adhd, of bipolar disorder. When you give people in prisons real food, the violence goes down by 40%. Use of restraints goes down by 75%. The food is affecting everything that we do. We are, this is warfare. If a foreign enemy or adversary did this to our country, poison them at mass scale, we'd consider it an act of war. (02:25–02:33)

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Asserts that providing real food in prisons reduces violence by 40% and use of restraints by 75%.

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