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Wait until you hear who's going to be nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA and other agencies. For now they warn against and prohibit the interstate sale of raw milk [0]. That may not last.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-safe...

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perihelions 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For those blissfully ignorant:

- "Robert Kennedy Jr., the Trump administration’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a proponent of raw milk consumption, disclosing in 2023 that it is the only milk he drinks."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/24/bird-flu-h5n1-raw-milk-l...

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hedora 10 hours ago | parent [-]

He also wants to regulate / ban ultra processed foods.

That’s certainly a good idea, since those products have been repeatedly shown to increase all cause mortality.

However, there is strong industry (and bipartisan) pressure to block the parts of his agenda that make scientific sense, so I’m not particularly optimistic.

Maybe apply pressure to your representatives? This seems like a rare case where they could have a big positive impact.

	▲	throw0101d 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> He also wants to regulate / ban ultra processed foods. How is "ultra processed" defined? If he wants to make useful changes perhaps stop corn (high-fructose) subsidies and get rid of tariffs on 'regular' sugar. Accepting that HIV and AIDS are linked would also probably be useful for a Secretary of Health: > In his book The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the War on Democracy and Public Health, Kennedy writes that he takes "no position on the relationship between HIV and AIDS,"[292]: 347 but spends over 100 pages quoting HIV denialists such as Peter Duesberg who question the isolation of HIV and the etiology of AIDS.[311] Kennedy refers to the "orthodoxy that HIV alone causes AIDS"[292]: 348 and the "theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS,"[292]: 351 and repeats the false HIV/AIDS denialist claim that no one has isolated the HIV particle and "No one has been able to point to a study that demonstrates their hypothesis using accepted scientific proofs.": 348 He also repeats the false claim that the early AIDS drug AZT is "absolutely fatal"[292]: 332 due to its "horrendous toxicity."[292]: 298 Molecular biologist Dan Wilson points out that Kennedy falsely claims that Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV, was a "convert" to Duesberg's fringe hypothesis. Wilson concludes that Kennedy is a "full blown" HIV/AIDS denialist.[311][292] Epidemiologist Tara C. Smith suggests that Kennedy's book "even flirts with outright germ theory denial," quoting a portion where Kennedy contrasts germ theory with terrain theory.[312] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#HIV/AIDS... Also, not denying the effectiveness of vaccines: * https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-fals...
	▲	KittenInABox 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't know what "ultra processed foods" even mean, tbh. Like are you seriously going to ban my keto/high-protein alternatives to sugar laden or carb heavy foods because my zero calorie water flavorant is more processed than freshly squeezed juice? It makes sense to me to regulate hyper-palatable 10-year-expiry junk food but ultra processed foods like meal replacements are useful and necessary for a wide variety of food sensitivities and disabilities.

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bigstrat2003 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> For now they warn against and prohibit the interstate sale of raw milk [0]. That may not last.

Nor should it. The government is not my mom, it does not have the right to dictate what I (or anyone else) can and cannot put into my body. By all means, regulate it and come down hard on anyone who doesn't meet the regulations. But an outright ban is stupid and always has been.