{"id":2213110,"date":"2024-04-04T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-columnist-writes-off-critiques-of-big-food-and-big-pharma-as-right-wing-new-ageism\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:00:29","slug":"nyt-columnist-writes-off-critiques-of-big-food-and-big-pharma-as-right-wing-new-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-columnist-writes-off-critiques-of-big-food-and-big-pharma-as-right-wing-new-ageism\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Columnist dismisses criticisms of Big Food and Big Pharma as right-wing new age beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-columnist-writes-off-critiques-of-big-food-and-big-pharma-as-right-wing-new-ageism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213110&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg explores the appeal of Robert\u200d F.\u2063 Kennedy \u2063Jr., linking it to a mix of \u2063&#8221;Terrified Parents,\u2063 New Age Health Nuts, [and] MAGA\u200d Exiles.&#8221; She\u2064 notes a shift toward a right-wing vibe in Kennedy&#8217;s following and\u2062 the fusion \u200bof New Age \u2062wellness culture with conservative politics. The column\u2062 sheds light on how health and wellness \u200dintersect with\u200b political ideologies. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg \u200bdelves into the factors contributing to\u2062 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s appeal, connecting it with &#8220;Terrified Parents&#8221;, &#8220;New Age Health Nuts&#8221;, and &#8220;MAGA \u200dExiles.&#8221; She highlights a shift towards a right-wing\u2064 influence in Kennedy&#8217;s supporters and the merging of New Age wellness with conservative beliefs. The piece \u200dexplores the intersection of health, wellness, and political affiliations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg tried to piece together why so many people appear drawn to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her answer: \u201cTerrified Parents, New Age Health Nuts, [and] MAGA Exiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there are still some progressive figures in Kennedy\u2019s orbit, his campaign has an increasingly right-wing vibe,\u201d Goldberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/04\/opinion\/rfk-movement-trump.html\">wrote<\/a> in a column published Thursday. Goldberg referenced Kennedy\u2019s support for border security, his willingness to go on Fox News, and a vice presidential pick who \u201cwas never all that left-wing.\u201d Equally at the heart of Kennedy\u2019s appeal to cross-partisan voters, Goldberg insisted, is an element of esoteric New Ageism focused on \u201calternative health.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1064720576\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-da2b89f60d52ff1616d986006ae9b231 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-da2b89f60d52ff1616d986006ae9b231\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSome strains of New Age wellness culture \u2014 with its distrust of mainstream expertise, moralistic view of health and weakness for quackery \u2014 have long intersected with right-wing politics,\u201d Goldberg wrote, noting in parentheses that Alex Jones\u2019s empire was built on health supplements. \u201cThe connection between alternative medicine and conservatism grew significantly stronger during the pandemic, as the center of gravity in the anti-vaccine movement moved rightward, while longtime right-wingers grew increasingly mistrustful of Big Pharma, and with it, Big Food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if Americans are serious about their health, conventional drug-based medicine would become the \u201calternative\u201d to adequate sunlight, physical movement, and eating free of forever chemicals. Yet somehow she links lifestyles aimed at keeping us out of the doctor\u2019s office with New Age paganism and the fringes of American politics. Never mind that nearly every religion on the planet places significant value on physical health. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reformjudaism.org\/jewish-perspectives-health-wellness\/what-jewish-tradition-says-about-health-and-wellness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Judaism<\/a>, for example, calls on followers to guard the body as a vehicle of worship while the Christian Bible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/verse\/en\/1%20Corinthians%206%3A19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes <\/a>the body as God\u2019s \u201ctemple,\u201d to be treated with great respect. Cue the next column from a legacy newspaper writing off some Americans\u2019 efforts to preserve their health as an exercise in right-wing Christian nationalism. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/pandemic-fitness-trends-have-gone-extreme-literally-n1292463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Several <\/a>outlets have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/sep\/27\/do-you-boast-about-your-fitness-watch-out-youll-unavoidably-become-rightwing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismissed <\/a>fitness \u2014 just plain fitness \u2014 as a right-wing obsession. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"1givDyQY3qdJxUTCS8nIhuGFMzlcAa5w4ONtjRHkX9BfmLVsWZbK2p067erP\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The far right\u2019s obsession with fitness is going digital <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/saGOFXMn64\">https:\/\/t.co\/saGOFXMn64<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1678366050285498369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Maybe people who focus on on health and wellness \u2014 a radical idea for people who want to live longer and with less pain and expense \u2014 are drawn to Kennedy because Kennedy understands the nation\u2019s predicament far better than the other two candidates. Kennedy\u2019s campaign has been the loudest to condemn the epidemic of obesity and chronic disease while depending on Big Pharma to solve it as one of the most fundamental obstacles to national prosperity. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-df5f4f8a149b61c12f69dcd7dd7a9bdb fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-df5f4f8a149b61c12f69dcd7dd7a9bdb\"><\/div>\n<p>Americans can navigate global turmoil and grow the gross domestic product (GDP) on paper, but peacetime economic expansion doesn\u2019t benefit everyone if the economy is growing because of a chronically fat, sick, and depressed population pumping billions into the sick care system. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"7M4haCAQXRtZ\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My running mate Nicole Shanahan explains how the Kennedy\/Shanahan ticket will end the chronic disease epidemic:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Bobby is focused on ending the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, I am going to assemble the best technologists and scientists in the world and we\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9kqLJKEFb\">pic.twitter.com\/v9kqLJKEFb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1774123395686510804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the 1960s, when Kennedy\u2019s uncle was president and his father the U.S. attorney general, American health spending was just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/184968\/us-health-expenditure-as-percent-of-gdp-since-1960\/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20U.S.%20national%20health,GDP%20share%20among%20developed%20countries.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5 percent<\/a> of gross domestic product. In 2021, it was more than 18 percent of GDP. Obesity rates have also <a href=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/articles\/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years\/#:~:text=In%20the%20early%201960s%2C%20roughly,obesity%20rate%20closer%20to%2043%25.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tripled <\/a>since the early 1960s ushered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodprocessing.com\/home\/article\/11365303\/a-history-of-food-processing-anniversary-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">industrialization <\/a>of the food supply and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9794145\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">low-fat diet craze<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy outlined more of the numbers in his state of the union address last month to argue, \u201cWe\u2019ve become a nation of chronic illness, of violence, of loneliness, and depression, and division, and poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>We have one of the highest cancer rates in the world, and our life expectancy now ranks 59th, according to the World Bank. That\u2019s right behind Algeria, which spends less than one-thirtieth per capita of what we spend. But even these grim figures hide the full picture of our entire health crisis. We now have the worst health outcomes in the rich world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"VSgzLUKN\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The State of Our Union <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/srpaPC815k\">pic.twitter.com\/srpaPC815k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1765916167737344260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eviemagazine.com\/post\/nobody-is-talking-about-the-record-high-number-of-americans-on-psychiatric-drugs-infants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record <\/a>number of psychiatric drugs flooding American bloodstreams, courtesy of pharmaceutical companies more eager to offer high-dollar ongoing treatments over cures, the United States fell eight spots to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/03\/20\/world-happiness-america-low-list-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new low<\/a> on the World Happiness Report last month. The United States is now no longer within the top 20 of the happiest nations, despite unprecedented wealth following the Industrial Revolution. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6a6877b47aa0c078e977d3e626f80666 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6a6877b47aa0c078e977d3e626f80666\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ba9c65e0b7567c6fae75382f49564d0e fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ba9c65e0b7567c6fae75382f49564d0e\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent column, New York Times writer Michelle Goldberg delved into the appeal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attributing it to an eclectic mix of &#8220;Terrified Parents, New Age Health Nuts, [and] MAGA Exiles.&#8221; She noted a shift towards a right-wing tone in his following, even though progressive individuals remain connected to his campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2213111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tucker-Doc.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Tucker-Doc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}