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RFK, Jr. claims chronic diseases are soaring, urges government to support litigation targeting agricultural chemicals such as paraquat and glyphosate

RFK, Jr. claims chronic diseases are soaring, urges government to support litigation targeting agricultural chemicals such as paraquat and glyphosate

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[Robert F Kennedy, Jr] sat down with The Detroit News Editorial Board, which is extending invitations to all major presidential candidates, to discuss what a Kennedy administration would look like.

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Q:You said you could easily solve the chronic disease problem that we have in the United States. What would be your approach?

We have 1,000 ingredients in our food and are banned in Europe and we’re giving these to the poor people. The food stamp program is almost entirely spent on poison food. Ten percent of it goes to sugar drinks. We’re poisoning all the poor people in this country. Mass poisoning of them. And that’s why they have the highest diabetes, highest asthma.

So, what Landrigan showed, he said, is that if you follow this timeline and the symptomology that we’re looking at, there’s only about 13 culprits. It’s glyphosate, which is in Roundup, which follows precisely that time. It’s nonactinide pesticides. It’s atrazine. It’s aspartame, which is the sweetener in all our drinks. It’s in some cases fluorine. It’s PFAS, PFOAS, which is the flame retardants that were put in all of our furniture in our children’s pajamas in that timeline. It’s high fructose corn syrup. Cell phone radiation. All of these things follow that timeline.

I’m going to create enough science identifying these exposures and the impacts of them (so) that then the lawyers will come in and sue. I was part of the Monsanto team that took out glyphosate and we did it because we got 15 studies and that allows us to go to take that case to a jury.

There’s a threshold in federal court called the Daubert threshold. You need a certain amount of studies before you can bring the case. And I’m going to create those studies at NIH for all these exposures and then the lawyers will do the rest and we’ll eliminate the exposures very very quickly.

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