Tag: RFK Jr

  • How School Lunches Became the Front Line of Americas Food Wars

    How School Lunches Became the Front Line of Americas Food Wars

    For decades, the American school lunch tray has quietly reflected the priorities of the nation’s food system. Brightly colored snacks, shelf stable meals, and ultra processed ingredients became normal not because they were nutritious, but because they were cheap, consistent, and visually appealing. Now, that long standing status quo is being challenged at the highest…

  • HHS to Reexamine Cell Phone and 5G Radiation Risks Following Direction From RFK Jr

    HHS to Reexamine Cell Phone and 5G Radiation Risks Following Direction From RFK Jr

    The relationship between modern technology and public health has long been a source of quiet unease, even as mobile devices have become inseparable from daily life. That unease is now being brought back into the national conversation after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it will launch a formal investigation into potential…

  • Mercury Out: RFK Jr. Makes Good on Vaccine Promise

    Mercury Out: RFK Jr. Makes Good on Vaccine Promise

    Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put his signature on a document Wednesday that vaccine critics have been demanding for decades. After years of debate, false claims, and scientific studies clearing the ingredient in question, American flu shots will no longer contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used since the 1930s. Yet the…

  • The Political Science Of Ending Animal Testing In The US

    The Political Science Of Ending Animal Testing In The US

    The landscape of American biomedical research is undergoing one of its most surprising transformations in decades. What was once a point of deep partisan division has become an unlikely point of unity. At the center of this shift stands Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose push to end animal testing in drug and chemical…