In a post-election interview on Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed some of his plans for a major overhaul of the country’s key health agencies.
An MSNBC reporter asked RFK Jr. whether he will terminate “the top level federal service workers that are currently at" the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“In some categories,” Kennedy responded. “There are entire departments, like the nutrition departments at FDA, that have to go.”
He said workers in certain departments, including nutrition, are “not doing their job” or “protecting our kids.”
“Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada, and it’s got two or three?” Kennedy questioned.
When asked whether he plans to eradicate any of the agencies, Kennedy replied, “To eliminate the agencies, as long as it requires congressional approval, I wouldn’t be doing that.”
Kennedy explained that he is confident he could “get the corruption out of the agencies.”
“It’s what I’ve been doing for 40 years. I’ve sued all those agencies. I have a PhD in corporate corruption, and that’s what I do. And once they’re not corrupt, once Americans are getting good science and are allowed to make their own choices, they’re going to get a lot healthier,” he added.
Less than a week before Election Day, Kennedy told NewsNation Trump’s plans for him in his future cabinet.
“President Trump has asked me to reorganize the federal health agencies. The agencies that have a portfolio that affects human health, which is CDC, [National Institutes of Health], FDA, as well as some of the agencies within the United States Department of Agriculture,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy said he was asked by Trump to end corruption and conflicts of interest as well as “measurably reduce chronic disease in our children within two years.”
On Sunday, he remarked, “I want to be in the White House. And [Trump has] assured me that I’m going to have that.”
Kennedy stated that he had not yet decided whether he wants to head the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
“I want to be in the position where I’m most effective to end the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy continued. “And I’m confident that if I wanted to do HHS secretary, the president would fight like hell to make that happen.”
Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Kennedy as “someone who has routinely promoted junk science and crazy conspiracy theories.”
She called him the “exact last person in America who should be setting health care policy for America’s families and children.”
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The SUSTAINS Act is a new law in the works that in classic tyrant fashion would drastically harm Americans’ ability to own land.
The law would give the USDA the power to monitor “natural processes” and decide who owns “environmental services.”
“The USDA now is monetizing natural processes under the SUSTAINS Act,” Glenn Beck says, disturbed. “It doesn’t look like it’s going to be stopped.”
“In other words, one environmental process is trees breathe in carbon dioxide, and they breathe out air. OK, so they take the pollution and breathe it in and then they give us what we need to live as they breathe out,” Glenn explains.
If the USDA has its way, it will try to control the natural processes that occur on your land.
“They are claiming the processes that are on your land. So you may not own the air, you may not own the tree, you may not own the water,” Glenn says. “What is your land worth without water?”
“Farmers, what is your land worth when you can’t till the soil yourself because the minerals and the soil is not really owned by you? You own the space, but you don’t own anything other than maybe your house, if it’s already built,” he continues, adding, “Our government is out of control.”
“This is a way for them to take control of the land through private public partnerships,” he says. “These things are actually happening.”
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If there’s one issue that a growing number of Americans are skeptical about — it’s our food supply. And according to Ben and Corley Spell, the founders of Good Ranchers, that skepticism is not misplaced.
“It’s getting harder and harder now that they keep changing laws and passing different things, and it’s so hard for consumers to know who to trust,” Ben tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”
“It’s mostly coming from Mexico, but you can import as long as it’s in a feedlot in the United States for 90 days,” he continues. “It can now get a USDA grade, where before it could only be USDA inspected.”
USDA prime or USDA choice labels used to be limited to meat that was born and harvested in the United States, but that has since changed.
“And why is that important for them to be born in the U.S.?” Stuckey asks.
“Agriculture is the backbone of our country, and farms and ranches are going out of business at an alarming rate,” Ben explains. “They can’t keep up. The price of meat keeps going up, and the price that the ranchers get is basically staying the same from decades ago.”
“As a whole, the American ranchers, the independent ranchers, they can’t keep up with the big conglomerates,” he adds.
But this isn’t the only issue facing America’s meat supply.
While Good Ranchers doesn’t sell meat that contains mRNA vaccines, they can't speak for everyone else.
In 2022, the USDA approved the use of an RNA based vaccine developed by Merck Animal Health. The vaccine became available on November 1, 2023, and with its newfound accessibility, there’s a possibility that pork products may be treated with this vaccine.
“We do get accused of fear-mongering, and that’s the last thing we want,” Ben tells Stuckey about the mRNA vaccines. “If we don’t talk about things, the government will just slide it in, and we will never know that’s what happened.”
Before the mRNA vaccine was legal for use, Ben and Corley publicly pledged not to use it, and that’s when the accusations of fear-mongering began.
“So many people were just like, ‘Oh well, it’s not even legal for use,’ and I’m like, ‘Yet,’” Ben recalls. “But if we don’t talk about this, and if people don’t get loud, let’s not wait until it is.”
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As production of cattle has plummeted to its lowest levels in decades, a rancher is warning that Americans are "going to pay the price" for the beef supply hitting a crisis point.
"This is a bad situation for America's cattle farmers and America because we're producing 1 billion pounds less beef than we were in this country, just a year ago," John Boyd, Jr. – president of the National Black Farmers Association – said during a Thursday interview on "Fox & Friends First."
Boyd has been farming and producing beef for 41 years, and he stressed, "I'm telling you, this is a time when we should be investing in America's cattle, and we're not doing it."
"We're not investing in America's beef and cattle farmers, and Biden policies are hurting America's cattlemen, such as myself," he continued. "They should be invested in America's cattle farmers and making sure that we have the tools needed to stay on the farm."
Boyd noted that there were empty stalls last week at a "very good" cattle market near his home in Blackstone, Virginia. He blamed the alarming situation on American ranchers "not producing the beef that we used to."
Boyd warned that the lack of production will cause price spikes.
"Americans are going to pay the price at their local grocery stores," he stated.
"We already are seeing such a steep, hike and beef in this country," Boyd said. "And it's because we're not supporting these cattlemen such as myself… the Biden administration, isn't paying attention [to] this national crisis. This is a national crisis for America's cattlemen, and this administration has turned a blind and a deaf ear to something that needs immediate attention."
USDA’s biannual Cattle Inventory Report showed that the country's cattle herd totaled 87.2 million head as of Jan. 1, 2024. This figure is down roughly 2% from last year's crop, and the lowest herd size in 73 years.
Fox Business reported, "Agricultural economists say persistent drought over the last three years, along with high input costs and inflation are putting pressure on both consumers and farmers."
American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Bernt Nelson told the Southern Farm Network, "The combination of higher input prices and drought drove farmers and ranchers to market more cattle, and not just more cattle but more female cattle that are responsible for replacing the beef herd. Now, we’re looking at a beef herd of about 28.2 million head. Amongst that we have a calf crop that is 33.6 million. Now this is down two percent, but it’s the smallest calf crop since 1948. That’s in 76 years."
Nelson said the current pipeline for beef supplies is "strong," but cautioned "as that supply begins to dry up, that’s when we are going to see beef supplies start to get tighter and tighter, and this could lead to the record prices that I think are going to occur in 2024 and 2025."
Beef sold for an average of $5 per pound last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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