RFK Jr. Vows to Keep His Hands Off Your McDonald’s: ‘My Boss Loves’ a ‘Cheeseburger’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to not take away classic American junk food such as McDonald’s Cheeseburgers and Hostess Twinkies as Health and Human Services secretary.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the health agency joined Senate lawmakers on Capitol Hill for a confirmation hearing. Kennedy was pressed by senators over his past support for anti-vaccine rhetoric and past controversies.

However, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) asked Kennedy how he would work with Congress to integrate nutrition-based interventions into American healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Kennedy responded by noting he will not seek to limit what Americans can eat, but will inform them about the potential risks “so they understand the relationship between eating and getting sick.”

We shouldn’t be giving 60% of kids in school processed food that is making them sick. We shouldn’t be spending 10% of the SNAP program on sugared drinks. So we have a direct ability to change things there. We also, you know, in Medicaid and Medicare, we need to focus more on outcome based matters and on on putting people in charge of their own health care, making them accountable for their own healthcare, so they understand the relationship between eating and getting sick. Most importantly, we need to use, deploy NIH and FDA to doing the research to understand the relationship between these different food additives and chronic disease so that Americans understand it and make sure that Americans are aware. I don’t want to take food away from anybody. If you like a cheeseburger — a McDonald’s cheeseburger, a Diet Coke, which my boss loves, and I think you should be able to get them. If you want to eat Hostess Twinkies you should be able to do that. But you should know what the impacts are on your family and on your health.

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