Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Last fall when Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
was angling for a position in the second Trump administration, He introduced the slogan, Make America Healthy Again. Maha. It riffed on MAGA but focused on themes far more familiar in liberal circles, toxins in the environment, biodiversity, and healthy eating. So it's all kind of confusing.
At the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy is undermining public trust in vaccines even during a deadly measles outbreak, and he's overseeing massive cuts to research across American science ending critical diabetes studies, for example. But meanwhile, the FDA says it wants to curtail the use of certain food dyes, and Kennedy is talking about seed oils and processed food. Here's Kennedy recently in an interview with Sean Hannity that took place at a Florida burger chain. You know, all the science indicates that ultraprocessed foods are what
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