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Evan Brown's avatar

I see on the news Steak N Shake is going to beef tallow on cooking their fries. They say they've "RFK'd the menu".

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Drew Skonberg,DC's avatar

When I used to advocate for whole, organic foods to patients, I heard “they’re expensive”. I’d state so’s cancer and disease. Same people on the drive up line at McDonalds.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Yep! They still get a dose of chemical rubber softener in every bite. Stops the bread from going stale! No waste!

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Michelle's avatar

It´s really interesting, when you take the time to read a book, what substances you´ll find in food, normal people wouldn´t conceive of. It reads like a waste dump. Must be way cheaper to dispose of it that way.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Europe only allows 400 chemicals to be added to processed foods. In the USA we allow 10,000 chemicals to be added to processed foods. . A major international food company announced today that they would change the formula to all the American produce foods to the European formula, which is healthier.! it has taken the election of President Trump and Robert F Kennedy Junior to run NIH to create this change. The American public have to wake up to the stupidity that they have allowed to transpire over the last 50 years in our food and medicine system.

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Michelle's avatar

Well, yes "The American public have to wake up to the stupidity that they have allowed to transpire over the last 50 years in our food and medicine system."

Since I live in Europe, I believe that even "400 chemicals to be added to processed foods" isn´t in any way acceptable......

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Truth Seeker's avatar

and the solution? eat no processed "foods"

Stupidity as you mention is no virtue.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

Most interesting that you used to advocate real food. What do you currently advocate?

Your retort for the expense is brilliant.

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Drew Skonberg,DC's avatar

I still advocate it, however I retired, thus past tense.

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Karen Sherwood's avatar

While I heartily applaud these actions I am devastated by the funding cuts to many of my regenerative farmer friends. I was very supportive of Kennedy when he ran his own presidential campaign because of his support for farms and the healthier food ethos as this has been the basis of my life as a farmer and conservationist. Where will all this healthy food be coming from? How about the farms devastated by recent fires and floods that will no longer get FEMA support either? What about all the EPA firings of those protecting the quality of our ground water supply that is used to irrigate crops? This issue is very complex and involves many aspects that are being destroyed by this new administration.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

can you expand on the cuts you allege for regenerative farmers?

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Karen Sherwood's avatar

Here is one article that summarizes some of this and also contains other links https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQZTMTvHmrSgRbvlrHgzszRHBCM

Indeed I also consult with, support and promote various local regen farms in my area and there have been some of these same issues among others that threaten their ability to continue. This is devastating to our healthy local food supply and to the environs they benefit as well. If that link doesn't work, let me know. I am a bit of a Luddite.

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Cindy K.'s avatar

I don’t think Kennedy had anything to do w/the budget cuts! He’s only been if office for 2 weeks and I hope you’ll give him a little more time to work out the kinks before you bad mouth him! Thx. #MAHA

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Karen Sherwood's avatar

It was not my intention to badmouth Kennedy and I don’t believe I did. My entire life has been devoted to providing the food, herbs and education to help people get healthy. I am pointing out that one of the critical legs of the stool that supports MAHA is the farms that grow our food (and plant medicines) and without them MAHA is just a fantasy. Like the old saying “No Farms No Food” The cuts are real and deep and the farmers I know don’t have the luxury to wait around for funding to be restored.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

yes of course, however junk food is still junk food, though less adulterated

Most definitely is not where health comes from.

The garbage food industry will never create health.

Health comes from knowledge about health. There are no shortcuts.

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VictorDianne Watson's avatar

Thank you, President Trump and Secretary Kennedy!! A good beginning!

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Randall Robinson's avatar

Please honor Vani Hari with the correct spelling of her last name. (The best known Harari is a psychopath.)

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Truth Seeker's avatar

indeed, there are many in the health trenches certainly to include Vani

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Evelyn's avatar

So excited that you're making our food healthier. Please, expedite the removal of fluoride from our water.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

have been serious about treating water for over 40 years.

There is absolutely no question that fluoride is toxic resulting in dim wits

including osteo sarcoma in adolescent males... and worse

It is relatively easy to remove, and is there to create simpletons.

The American Dental Association is fully on board with this. They are criminal.

The fluoride issue was totally known 35 years ago, and is only now front row and center...

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SaHiB's avatar

And aluminum from everything! GRAS allows it for all sorts of things; vaccine adjuvants, water flocculant, baking powder and free-flowing agent in food, antiperspirants, and while supposedly immune to GRAS regulation, chemtrails.

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Michelle's avatar

While I really think it´s great what RFK Jr is trying to do, I wonder how far it´ls gonna go with manufacturers.

Honestly, most food products that you get in a supermarket, people could easily do without. But of course, manufacturers won´t change any of that, since it´s all about money.

Also, I can´t see any real gain when "manufacturers have until January 2027 to remove the dye from food products, and makers of ingested drugs like cough syrup have until January 2028." Seriously? I´m sure it could be done faster......

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Karen Sherwood's avatar

I agree Michelle. In a culture that we are now creating for big business I don't see an ability to have real wins. I appreciate the small wins but I fear much more greatly for the loss of the small American farms that have been heavily injured by the supposed cuts to waste, fraud and abuse. It's like were just further enabling corporate ag as well as big food. I just don't see where our real food is going to come from. Killing off small farms also enables the manufacturers to claim they are supplying the food we need because there will be so little real food at this rate.

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Michelle's avatar

I also wish that small farms would be supported instead of big corporations. Since RFK Jr is aware of regenerative agriculture - and there already are some great examples of people who showed the way in the US- let´s hope that there´ll be support in this area.

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Lewis Coleman's avatar

The crisis merits more than reforming food quality, though that is a good start. We need to restore President Nixon’s Environmental Protection Agency to its original purpose, which was to establish safe limits on environmental pollutants. Soon after it was established, powerful corporations hijacked control of the EPA of its scientists and laboratories, perverted its standards, and tarred and feathered President Nixon and rode him out of office on a rail, so that American food pollution is limited only to the maximum of toxic substances that humans can tolerate without getting immediately sick. Europeans have led the way to constraining corporations and restricting toxic substances, so that food quality and taste is noticeably better in Europe --and probably in Russia as well--compared to here. The recently discovered mammalian stress mechanism enables a “unified theory of medicine” that confers better ways to assess the toxicity of food additives and contaminants. In addition, it confers fresh treatments directed at the actual cause of disease to achieve safe, effective and reliable cures for everything from cancer to COVID and the common cold, as compared to judging the success of treatments on the basis of fickle symptoms. It promises to elevate medicine from an art based on experiment to a genuine science founded on proven theory. It is time to reform and revolutionize medicine. Until now this was impossible due to the opposition of corrupt corporations that profit at the price of public health, but now that the COVID contagion has focused public attention on the problem, and President Trump has recruited Robert Kennnedy, Jr. to halt the exponential increase in chronic illnesses, there may be an opportunity to reform and revolutionize medicine, restore health and longevity, and eliminate the threat of disease and premature death for once and for all. But time is of the essence because this opportunity may lot last. www.stressmechanism.com

https://youtu.be/U1ZeR3VfFG0?si=-jP8pvPqo43-TNZV

https://stressorg-magazines.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/combat-stress/2024/Combat-Stress-Winter-2024-25.pdf

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Susan's avatar

We need immediate food labeling that identifies each and every injection that any food made from injected animals received. None of these mRNA or other vaccines that may have been given to food animals appear on the labels. We've heard threatening references to vaccines in the foods referred to by Bill Gates.

Apparently, almost all cheese is mRNA Pfizer patented without labeling or synthetic lab-made enzymes if the words "animal rennant" is not on the label--the label language at the grocery store level was changed 5 times in 2024. The number of cheese brands with organic labeling or with Non-GMO Project Verified labeling appear to be less than 1% of the entire cheese supply at huge supermarkets, less than one refrigerator door when 4 full isles of the other dairy cheese exist and 1/2 refrigerator door of non-dairy cheese.

This lack of transparency disables people who are struggling to manage a budget and eat healthy, when this crap obviously is unhealthy but people buy it because it is unlabeled. We need labeling of all such food to avoid becoming obese and with mRNA likely permanently sick with potential gene mutations, given all the graphene oxide, nano, and other chemicals in our environment, cosmetics, emolients, and supplements that transfect mRNA when that cutting-edge conversation only has a few starts and fits. This includes hormones and growth hormones that help make Americans obese, because the lie that gets told when food labels are mandated to indicate when they do not have growth hormones.

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Jennie Gibson's avatar

You can get real grass fed A2 cheese made with animal rennet from the Nourish Food Cooperative by ordering online. Expensive but worth it and extremely delicious.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

better yet howz about simply outlawing the insanity?

Too many people are too dumb to care about labels...

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Pat's avatar

The key is holding their feet to the fire making sure these companies don’t sneakily substitute any PARASITE RIDDLED insect flour instead!!

The EU just green-lighted Insect Powder, if you can believe that!

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David Weiner's avatar

CSPI was also the organization that promoted the replacement of animal fats with seed oils.

Woops!

Wouldn't put much stock in anything they say.

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Kim F's avatar

Love this for our country! Thank you all the MAHA crew and Bobby for having the perseverance to become the Secretary of our nation's health!!!

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Truth Seeker's avatar

You might want to acknowledge the Visionary Donald J Trump...

RFK works at his pleasure.

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Kelli's avatar

l o v e

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Susan's avatar

When Americans see that the leader of the government in charge of health is serious about real health change, it signals them to push for change but even more the employees who want to stay and see that such a leader is serious about ethical change, not revolving-door change, things start to happen.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

Donald Trump is the Commander in Chief of the governement you reference.

I am tired of clueless Beaconites who seem to weave around this FACT.

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Douglas Jack's avatar

RE-EMPOWERING CONSUMER, WORKER, MANAGER, SUPPLIER, FOUNDER STAKEHOLDERS at the base of the food-supply pyramid. While its a miracle to have Kennedy at the top, he needs our committed investment & action at the bottom for this transformation to happen beyond 4 years.

The greatest opportunity, for improving food health quality, is to help Consumers invest their patronage with Frequent-Buyer-Programs FBP member cards, in their local groceries & super-markets in 'Participatory' (Latin 'part' = 'share') stakeholder ownership. Presently most food stores have FBP tied only to 'discounts' as a kind of B-Mod incentive.

WIN-WIN SOLUTIONS For store owners, managers & founders to make better quality longterm committed even invested Purchase Decisions, they need more capital & the associated commitment of invested (buy-in) by Consumers. Such FBP investment rewards Consumers with greater recognition returns based on their investment. Consumers as FBP & $$ share holders are invited to convivial 'community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') Annual General Meetings, choose Consumer representatives & become a communication link between the Consumer as one committed & empowered stakeholder to improve the system at all levels. Store owners & managers get committed invested consumers, who are ready to help in the difficult steps of healing the system back to harmony with people & nature. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/4-community-investment-exchange-system

Workers, Managers, Suppliers, Townspeople are given opportunity to invest their own repeating business attributes such as labour, knowledge, Goods, Services, localities etc.

AVERAGE PEOPLE TRANSFORMING COMPANIES to PARTICIPATORY GOVERNMENT. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting The 'domestic' (mostly women) collective economy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are meant to be subset economies, supportive of the Domestic core. Here's an indigenous model of software to regenerate community care & health. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing

70% of people today live in Multihomes within an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 (50-150) persons. The Domestic Economy is equal to the Industrial & Commercial Economies combined & plays an integral role. The voice of primarily women accounting-recognized, celebrated & empowered for their work at this intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale enable appropriate personal goods, services & real-'education' (L 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within').

Most institutional goods & services are inappropriately scaled & cruel.

Recycling, Repair, Reduction, Reuse of goods & materials are stimulated with specialists at these economies-of-scale among every other facet of the true 'economy'. Start-up industry & commerce within these committed extended-family Multihome bodies are the most successful, innovative & lasting in the face of economic pressures. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year.

APPROPRIATE-SCALE CULTURAL ECONOMY FOUNDATION All indigenous humanity kept accounts & records of intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale in the Multihome (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Multihomes should be the 1st Line of nutritional, preventative & restorative Medical intervention by specialists already amongst us treating people proactively & positively in harmony with nature. Here's an indigenous model of software to regenerate intimate longitudinal community care & health. Here's what a dozen communities are reaching for across Canada, USA, Brazil, Kenya. Come join.

DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are web-based Community-Circular-Economy software:

A) CATALOGUE intake form for individual & business Talents, Goods, Services, Resources & Dreams. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership

B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames

C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy

D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Constructive Agreements & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues

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