{"id":2385941,"date":"2025-01-03T07:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-chefs-like-me-support-rfk-jr-s-crusade-to-fix-our-food\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:16:12","slug":"why-chefs-like-me-support-rfk-jr-s-crusade-to-fix-our-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-chefs-like-me-support-rfk-jr-s-crusade-to-fix-our-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chefs Like Me Support RFK Jr.&#8217;s Crusade To Fix Our Food"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwhy-chefs-like-me-support-rfk-jr-s-crusade-to-fix-our-food%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=2385941&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>The\u2063 mission \u200bof the U.S. \u2062Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is\u200d to promote the health and well-being of\u2062 Americans, but the \u2063association has strayed from this goal. To rectify this, new leadership is necessary to \u200crevert to a focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-why-obesity-is-the-primary-health-threat-facing-american-children\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s Why Obesity Is The Primary Health Threat Facing American Children\">minimally processed foods<\/a> and\u2064 healthier ingredients. Robert F. Kennedy, \u200bJr. is identified \u200cas a potential leader who possesses the necessary \u200bfocus, knowledge, enthusiasm, and influence to initiate necessary changes in the\u200d food system.<\/p>\n<p>The author, \u200da professional\u200d chef and \u200brestaurant owner wiht over 20 years of experience, highlights \u200ba decline in\u2064 food quality and public\u200b health, coinciding with the rising profits of \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-ryan-will-entertain-your-conspiracy-theory-analysis-finds\/\" title=\"Tim Ryan Will Entertain Your Conspiracy Theory, Analysis Finds\">large food corporations<\/a>. The \u200cconsolidation\u2064 of the\u2064 food industry has led to the disappearance of small farms, financial \u2063struggles for local \u200dfishermen,\u200c and the\u200d predominance \u200bof corporate chains over mission-driven restaurants. Currently, a few corporations dominate vast segments of the U.S. food\u2064 market, controlling notable shares\u2063 in \u200ccoffee, pork, bread,\u2064 and othre essentials. \u200cThis concentration \u2064of power, \u2062coupled with\u200b expanding government involvement and debt, has \u200ccompromised food quality and\u2062 the effectiveness of health-oriented policies, resulting in \u200da reliance on mass-produced goods.  <\/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 mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is to enhance the health and well-being of Americans. Somewhere during its journey of growth and influence, however, HHS lost its way. <\/p>\n<p>If this is to be corrected, new leadership is required to move us back to an era of less processed food, healthier ingredients, and logical choices that enhance our health. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has the focus, knowledge, enthusiasm, and influence to effect much-needed change in our food system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my 20-plus years as a professional chef and restaurant owner, I watched as food quality deteriorated. We, collectively as a nation, have become less and less healthy. This happened while large food corporations have become more and more profitable. Small farms disappeared, feeding the appetite of those who support consolidation. Local fishermen suffered financially, with many going bankrupt, while we import seafood from nations that do not adhere to sufficient health-based restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>Corporate chains have replaced mission-driven restaurants. We have <a href=\"https:\/\/farmaction.us\/concentrationdata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allowed<\/a> four major corporations to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/JU\/JU05\/20220119\/114345\/HHRG-117-JU05-20220119-SD006.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> control over 60 percent of America&rsquo;s coffee, pork, bread, and cookie markets. Four corporations also reportedly control over 80 percent of the U.S. market for pasta, soda, baby food, and more. This occurred in an environment of expanding government reach and a ballooning debt. In the name of efficiency, we lost the efficacy of food. We rely upon mass production &mdash; and its attendant process of destroying what nature provides for health &mdash; in exchange for ingredients and processes corporations need for profitability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the days of finding a roadside burger shack and enjoying local meat with hand-cut fries cooked in glistening beef tallow or real fat. Instead, our culinary choices are limited to the usual suspects, slinging noxious food that satisfies a food craving with empty calories and ill health. This, sadly, is the current state of the American dining experience. <\/p>\n<p>And this scenario does not stop with dining. You see the same types of products lining the shelves of every major grocery store in America. Even fruits are void of the nutrients for which they are marketed. Soil depletion has resulted in a loss of vitamins and minerals from our fruits and vegetables versus what we had decades ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RFK Jr. can take three immediate steps to change this downward-spiraling system. First, for consumers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-encourages-people-to-call-police-on-neighbors-violating-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon Governor Encourages People To Call Police On Neighbors Violating COVID Orders\">make informed decisions<\/a> about the food they eat, we need objective food studies, not written or funded by the companies that profit from such reports. RFK Jr.&rsquo;s HHS can control the standards for such public information. Second,&nbsp;he can make healthy food less expensive and more accessible by reducing regulations that prevent interstate&nbsp;commerce of local meat, produce, and raw milk. Third, he can help remove the unhealthy chemicals from our food system by not allowing any products into processed foods that have been proven to cause cancers or autoimmune disease disruptions in DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we have found ourselves to be laggards in the demarketing of ultra-processed food. Somehow our government still believes processed food is not bad. This is, at best, disingenuous. At worst, it is another example of the government&rsquo;s failure to respect the benefits of natural ingredients. We need someone who will lead the transformation of the food industry back to promoting health and well-being. I believe RFK Jr. is the right choice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a chef, I have seen this upside-down incentive structure and information flow firsthand. Massive industry rebates that restaurants and chefs receive to hawk these products prime the restaurant supply chain with junk. Chefs are given marketing materials pushing fake health claims about products. The payoff is that the more manufacturers sell, the larger the economies of scale, and thus the lower the price. Lower prices are good, but lower prices should not be an excuse for food that poisons our country.<\/p>\n<p>This country needs a fresh perspective on food. Systems must be revamped to bring &ldquo;health&rdquo; back into the food equation. Let&rsquo;s look at the bigger picture: Healthy food will result in a healthy population, and a healthy population reduces health care costs. We have allowed ourselves to become addicted to processed foods, unhealthy ingredients, and poor production techniques. <\/p>\n<p>The solution will not happen overnight, but we need to start somewhere. Kicking this can down the road will only make the solution more difficult at the expense of all Americans. RFK Jr. is the only person who has clearly demonstrated the will to initiate this change.<\/p>\n<p>If we hope to become a healthier country, we need a visionary leader to help change our perspective, educate the populace, and reshape the agencies that have allowed this country to equate laboratory additives with good health. RFK Jr. is that leader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Andrew Gruel, a graduate of Johnson &amp; Wales University, is a food entrepreneur and television personality. He is the Founder of Slapfish Restaurant Group (27 locations), the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">award-winning food truck-turned-international brick<\/a> and mortar, based out of Huntington Beach, California, and currently CEO and founder of American Gravy Restaurant Group.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HHS must refocus on healthier, less processed food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3598,"featured_media":2385942,"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\/Screenshot-2024-12-19-at-12.13.20%E2%80%AFPM-1024x599.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47818,47819,32458],"class_list":["post-2385941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chefs","tag-food-advocacy","tag-rfk-jr"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-19-at-12.13.20%E2%80%AFPM-1024x599.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385941","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\/3598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385945,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385941\/revisions\/2385945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}