Tyler O’Neil writes for the Daily Signal about a Trump nominee’s potential positive impact on the federal government.
I don’t always agree with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, but I can’t help but feel a bit of healthy schadenfreude at the prospect of America’s corrupt health care establishment getting the bitter taste of well-deserved disruptive medicine.
Kennedy isn’t exactly a conservative. He’s on the record supporting abortion, and he has a long track record of working not just in environmental conservation (which I support), but in advancing climate alarmism, which I consider not only wrong, but disruptive for freedom, prosperity, and environmental protection.
Yet Kennedy also represents the inquisitive spirit that the medical establishment has fought tooth-and-nail to suppress, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Big Health’s recent scandals make the kind of shake-up Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promises not only necessary, but also a just retribution.
As a millennial, I remember growing up with the food pyramid—the now-infamous graphic telling children that they need to consume daily: six to 11 servings of grains (bread, cereal, rice, and pasta), a mere three to five servings of vegetables, two to four servings of fruit, and only two to three servings of meat, poultry, fish, etc. …
… Why did the food pyramid encourage so much bread, rice, and cereal? Well, the U.S. government has been subsidizing grains and sugar for decades. The sugar industry paid scientists to blame fats for diseases like diabetes. How much corruption is responsible for Americans’ false assumptions about what is and isn’t healthy?
Kennedy’s plan to ask questions about the additives in food and to press federal agencies to reconsider nutrition guidelines is long past due. America does need to become healthy again, and an FDA shakeup may help a great deal.
