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This sounds like a stupid question, but I'm being genuine.
He is telling people to eat more meat, which sounds absolutely insane to me.
What qualifies him to give health advice ? Why are americans trusting him ?
I'm an American, and I'm certainly not taking any advice from him
Yeah but he has such a smooth velvety voice, who could refuse?
(No offense to decent people with “textured” timbres)
It's not like we're all doing that. Or even most of us.
Uneducated populace stuck in propaganda channels.
We aren't. We just have one giving it.
When you’re famous they let you
Because we are being led by a convicted felon who sexually assaults his child employees.
He such a fucking dumbass even if we have some ovelapping nutritional beliefs and predilection for the ol' narcotics
I mean shit, i can't tell you how many people, doctors included, have been aghast that i might have to take a pill every day the rest of my life for blood pressure. as though it's an addiction. people are fucking idiots.
Only americans can put the question this stupid way, and so it really fits here: Well done!
Hold on, we don't know if he's still on heroin.
When was the last time you ate more or less of something because someone in the government told you to?
Corn syrup yesterday
I think he's trying to substitute populism for health science, which is irresponsible and awful and will kill people. That he's using eugenicist language in the process, and eliminating vaccines because 'big pharma corruption' while not meaningfully checking big pharma power or abuses smells like a plan to watch the children of vulnerable populations die. The rest of it- making noise about redesigning the food pyramid- is just smoke. The 'new' recommendations are just a rebranding of previous recommendations to pretend like they're doing something about how our food systems are shitty because mostly FDA spends food money to subsidize the ag industry and processed subsidized product is profitable in ways that healthy food often isn't
I gotta say, from an Australian perspective, American politics is so extra, like an ex heroin Addict becoming the health minister, and some coked up orange business man who thinks he’s the second coming of Christ is the president? And the USA became fascistic in like a year? That’s wild
Aussie politics is just a boring ass democracy with some of the spicy American inspired silliness for the aesthetics, as well as most people being on the same page but like 2 politicians arguing about some insignificant idea somehow appearing on national news, or that group of people who want Albanese dead for just existing, which is a bit odd I gotta say.
Because he has money, and you don't.
More simple than you'd think, dumb people only trust other dumb people's advice, there is no cure for stupid, unfortunately
Former heroin addict. Now say that in the RFK voice.
The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it's the life stock industry.
Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.
But also, lean, fresh meat isn't that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don't have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.
Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.
If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don't eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).
In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:
And you also shouldn't eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.
RFK Jr. wanted to lead the USA's health department against a believed massive conspiracy by big-Whatever. Trump gave RFK Jr. a slot so RFK Jr. didn't split the far-right crazy vote in the 2024 election.
In 2024, RFK Jr. launched an independent bid for the presidency after floating challenging Joe Biden's spot in the Democratic Party. RFK Jr. had no chance of winning the Democratic primary or an independent bid; but being a conspiracy theorist and all-around horrible person, it was possible that RFK Jr. may have split enough of that population from key states to cause Trump to lose. That conspiracy theory nonsense really doesn't hold water in the Democratic voter base. The folks who would choose RFK Jr. over Harris or Trump, would otherwise choose Trump over Harris.
Recall that in 2016, Trump won many key states with <54% of the vote; and in 2020, Biden flipped those key states after Trump's mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic and other controversies. Even losing 3% of the popular vote in a few states to RFK Jr. may have cost Trump the election in 2024, or so it was feared.
Lots of people here are giving explanations of why the citizens may support RFK Jr. and, while that is all true, the reality is most of Trump's campaign staff are just loyalists (i.e. Pam Bondi), alt-right conspiracy theorists (i.e. Kash Patel), and folks who assisted in his election campaign (i.e. Elon Musk, Dr. Phil). Many of these are figures are people largely unknown of until they were appointed to be Trump's staff. RFK Jr. leads the HHS because he was given that role by Trump. As to why the USA folk chose Trump; Well, we've been having that conversation for 15 months now.
We aren’t. Most of us aren’t anyway.
There's a half-naked photo of him, where he's swole, then people decided he looked "healthy", because the body building community managed to control the narrative around the health implications of the sport.
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But I’m American and I’m not taking his advice. He’s a moron.