{"id":2381268,"date":"2024-12-18T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-support-rfks-plans-to-reform-the-food-industry-poll\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:55:04","slug":"americans-support-rfks-plans-to-reform-the-food-industry-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-support-rfks-plans-to-reform-the-food-industry-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Support RFK&#8217;s Plans To Reform The Food Industry: Poll"},"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\">20<\/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%2Famericans-support-rfks-plans-to-reform-the-food-industry-poll%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=2381268&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>Teh &#8220;Make America Healthy\u200d Again&#8221; (MAHA) movement is gaining significant popularity among Americans, according \u200cto a\u200c recent YouGov poll. The survey indicated that respondents were three times more likely to view the MAHA movement favorably than unfavorably. Despite controversial opinions surrounding Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who advocates for various health \u200breforms as a \u2063potential Health and \u200bHuman \u2063Services\u200c secretary, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-slams-schumer-for-meddling-in-israels-elections-hes-opposing-the-people-of-israel\/\" title=\"Netanyahu Criticizes Schumer&#039;s Interference in Israeli Elections: Accuses Him of Going Against Israeli Citizens\">public largely supports<\/a> his proposals, especially regarding food\u2063 industry \u2062reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Both Republicans and Democrats showed strong agreement on several key reforms, including \u2063requiring nutrition education in medical schools, banning specific \u2064food additives, increasing \u200bfunding for option health research, enforcing stricter pesticide \u2063regulations, \u200dand prohibiting processed foods in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-lgbt-mandates-for-school-lunch-program-unlawful-republican-attorneys-general-say\/\" title=\"Biden Admin LGBT Mandates for School Lunch Program Unlawful, Republican Attorneys General Say\">public school lunches<\/a>. The poll highlighted that nearly 80% of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">participants supported enhancing nutrition\u200b education<\/a> in medical training.while views on Kennedy are\u2063 polarized, there is \u200bbroad bipartisan \u2062consensus on \u2062the goals \u2063of the MAHA movement and \u2064his proposed health reforms.  <\/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<div>\n<p>The new movement to &ldquo;Make America Healthy Again&rdquo; is incredibly popular. <\/p>\n<p>According to a recent YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/politics\/articles\/51140-what-americans-think-of-rfk-jrs-make-america-healthy-again-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> released last week, Americans were three times as likely to hold a favorable opinion of the MAHA movement than they were to hold an either &ldquo;very&rdquo; or &ldquo;somewhat unfavorable&rdquo; perspective. Branding aside, Americans overwhelmingly favor the major pillars of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s proposals to reform the food industry as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) even as opinions of Kennedy himself were profoundly polarized. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This YouGov survey is fascinating. Americans from both parties are overwhelmingly united behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s food reforms despite views of RFK himself becoming profoundly polarized. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/72IISsqw9A\">https:\/\/t.co\/72IISsqw9A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vuPxgtgy85\">pic.twitter.com\/vuPxgtgy85<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JusticeTristan\/status\/1869190787453394951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Majorities of both Republicans and Democrats were united in support of &ldquo;requiring nutrition education in federally funded medical schools, banning certain food additives, funding research into alternative and holistic approaches to health, increasing restrictions on the use of pesticides in agriculture, and banning processed foods from public school lunches,&rdquo; according to the poll.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/19\/americans-want-to-stop-being-fat-and-unhappy-but-dont-know-how\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Americans Want To Stop Being&nbsp;<em>Fat And Unhappy<\/em>&nbsp;But Don&rsquo;t Know How<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Out of the 1,064 adults surveyed online between Nov. 19-20, respondents were most united on rules to prioritize nutritional education in medical schools, with nearly 8 in 10 who said they supported the proposal. However, as outlined in my new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fat-Unhappy-Positivity-Killing-Yourself\/dp\/B0DNJZLVZ5\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1B826IC9RCA6D&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.u_gMME28cHAPUsj1hYJVsw.QjuXLAKRureyUwzJvLJBR_rGA4uF8dGvUnMYbi_TTjY&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=fat+and+unhappy+tristan+justice&amp;qid=1734479614&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=fat+and+unhappy+tristan+just%2Cstripbooks%2C146&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fat And Unhappy: How &ldquo;Body Positivity&rdquo; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself)<\/a><\/em>, U.S. medical programs are already failing to meet the minimum standards for nutrition classes set by the National Academy of Sciences. Just 27 percent of medical schools met the academy&rsquo;s recommendation of a 25-hour minimum embedded in curriculums, <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC4042309\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to a 2010 survey. <\/p>\n<p>Exactly <em>what<\/em> students are taught about nutrition in medical school meanwhile remains controversial as the public health establishment still promotes the low-fat diet as conventional wisdom. Kennedy, on the other hand, has rightfully condemned the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/23\/rfk-jr-trashes-estrogenic-seed-oils-in-trump-endorsement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">low-fat dogma<\/a> promoted by the food industry, though the YouGov survey did not go into details about how the potential new HHS secretary might reform nutrition curriculums in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Americans from both parties interviewed by YouGov also support Kennedy&rsquo;s endorsement for legalizing marijuana, with 58 percent of U.S. adults claiming to either &ldquo;strongly support&rdquo; or &ldquo;somewhat support&rdquo; the idea. Respondents were less receptive to the legalization of psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes, restrictions on GLP-1 agonists such as Ozempic for weight loss, the removal of fluoride from public utilities, and lifted restrictions on raw milk. Republicans and Democrats both agreed however on 6 out of the 10 proposals presented to survey participants.<\/p>\n<p>But while many of Kennedy&rsquo;s plans enjoy broad bipartisan agreement, views of Kennedy himself were sharply divided. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Far more Republicans now have positive views of Kennedy (+63) than did last year, while most Democrats now say they dislike him (-41),&rdquo; YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/politics\/articles\/51140-what-americans-think-of-rfk-jrs-make-america-healthy-again-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy still faces an uphill confirmation battle among senators on the Finance Committee who have raked in nearly $7 million from the pharmaceutical industry over the past half decade,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/19\/the-senators-who-will-vote-on-rfk-jr-have-raked-in-millions-from-the-pharmaceutical-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to a Federalist analysis.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, one of Kennedy&rsquo;s first battles is likely to be President Joe Biden&rsquo;s late effort to implement a $<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/26\/biden-proposes-35-billion-handout-for-big-pharmas-lucrative-weight-loss-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">35 billion<\/a> subsidy for the pharmaceutical industry&rsquo;s lucrative new weight loss drugs. Last month, the Biden administration&rsquo;s HHS unveiled a proposal to cover popular diabetes medications for weight loss under federal insurance programs, of which Kennedy has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/rfk-jr-says-ozempic-other-173800548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consistent skeptic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Make America Healthy Again&#8221; movement is very popular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2381269,"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\/12\/RFK-Jr.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3884,38721,3921,4353,23694],"class_list":["post-2381268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-americans","tag-food-industry","tag-poll","tag-reform","tag-rfk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RFK-Jr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381268","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=2381268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381272,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381268\/revisions\/2381272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}