RFK Jr slams seed oils in Trump endorsement speech: ‘We’re mass poisoning our children’
Robert F Kennedy Jr has unleashed on toxic foods in a wide-ranging speech endorsing Donald Trump for president, blaming seed oils and chemicals for making Americans the “sickest people on Earth”.
The environmental lawyer ended his own campaign in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, telling his supporters to vote for Trump instead as the former president is the better candidate on three existential issues – censorship, war and chronic disease.
RFK Jr first ran through the numbers, including that 74% of Americans are overweight or obese (and 50% of children), that half have prediabetes or type two diabetes (one in three children), while the autism rate has gone from 1 in 1,500 in 2000 to 1 in 36 in children today, while 18% of teens have fatty liver disease and 40% have a mental health diagnosis.
This is the most important 3 minutes you’ll watch today about America’s health crisis.
RFK explains how ultra processed food, seed oils, pesticides, and food additives are messing up kids.
“We are mass poisoning all of our children.” pic.twitter.com/qguwgoSGbN
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“So what’s causing this suffering? I’ll name two culprits. First and the worst is ultra-processed foods. 70% of American children’s diet is ultra-processed, which means industrially manufactured in a factory,” RFK Jr said.
“These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils.
“The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies. This assault on our children’s cells and hormones is unrelenting.
“We are mass poisoning all of our children and our adults.”
RFK Jr elaborated on his seed oil comments in an interview on Fox News, where he also took aim at toxic food colouring, so-called natural flavours, and pesticides.
“Seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in foods, and seed oils, the reason they’re in the foods is because they’re heavily subsidised,” he explained.
“They are very very cheap, but they are associated with all kinds of very very serious illnesses, including body-wide inflammation which effects all of our health. It’s one of the worst things you can eat.
“And it’s almost impossible to avoid. If you eat any processed food you’re going to be eating seed oil.”
RFK Jr went on to warn about yellow food colouring which he said is “associated with depression, autoimmune injuries, and ADHD” saying that US companies can get away with using synthetic dyes that are banned or discouraged in Europe.
He said there was a similar problem with “natural flavours” which are in fact chemical products, making it impossible to trust ingredient labels because government agencies have been “captured by the industries they’re supposed to regulate”.
On pesticides, RFK Jr warned that non-organic foods were all contaminated, meaning that even foods that appeared healthy could be harming people’s health.
Watch RFK Jr. Expose Four Toxic Substances That Are in Your Food
I can’t believe Fox News actually aired this.
1. SEED OILS: Kennedy says seed oils are “one of the most unhealthy ingredients” we have in foods, linked to “serious illnesses, including body-wide inflammation.”
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