"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down with Newsmaxâs Greta Van Susteren Tuesday evening and exposed the dirtiest trick in the American food system. He says corporations hijacked an FDA loophole called âGRASâ to quietly flood our food with untested chemicalsâwithout ever proving they were safe.
And the consequences didnât take long to show up.
In the late 1980s and early â90s, something strange started happening in America. Chronic illness was on the rise. Obesity rates soared. Autoimmune diseases became more common.
It felt like the health of the nation was unraveling.
According to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that wasnât a coincidence. It was the result of a corporate takeover.
âAt that time⌠the tobacco industry took over the food industry,â he said.
âBy the early 1990s, the two biggest food companies in the world were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.â
The same companies that had perfected the art of chemical addiction through cigarettes were now running the food system. And Kennedy says they brought the same playbook with them.
âThey began moving scientists from the endeavor of making tobacco more addictive to developing new lab ingredients that would make food addictive.â
Thatâs when everything changed.
What had once been real foodâgrown, cooked, and servedâbecame something else entirely. A highly engineered product designed not to nourish, but to keep people hooked.
The health consequences were immediate. But behind it all, there was something even more insidious: the regulatory system meant to protect Americans had already been compromised.
âThose chemicals were largely untested because of the capture of the FDA by the food and drug industries,â Kennedy warned.
The public trusted the FDA. But the FDA, Kennedy says, had already been captured by the very industries it was supposed to regulate.
Then came the dirtiest trick of all.
Kennedy revealed how the food industry hijacked a decades-old FDA loopholeâone that allowed a flood of untested chemicals into our diets.
It started back in the 1940s, when the FDA first began regulating food.
At the time, they made one reasonable exception: ingredients with a long history of safe useâlike wheat, eggs, and dairyâwouldnât need testing.
âWhen the FDA first began regulating foods in the 1940s, it exempted food ingredients that had been used for generationsâlike wheat, eggs, and dairy,â Kennedy said.
âThey didnât require testing for those.â But decades later, that narrow exemption was quietly weaponized.
âThe food industry later captured that label and applied it to every new chemical they wanted to add.â
Instead of testing new additives, companies simply claimed they were âgenerally recognized as safe.â And the FDA, Kennedy said, went along with it.
The result? America now has more than 10,000 approved food ingredients. Europe? Just 400.
âIn the U.S., chemicals are never safety tested before being added to food,â he said.
Some of those ingredients are derived from petroleum. Others mimic the flavor of strawberries or blueberries, without providing a single nutrient. And theyâre not just empty calories.
âThese chemicals hijack the brain and trick the body into eating more food while getting less nutrition.â Thatâs not just unhealthyâitâs unprecedented.
âWe are now the fourth most obese country in the world,â Kennedy said, âyet for the first time in history, obesity is often accompanied by malnutrition.â
Think about that for a second.
âThe people who are most obese are also malnourished. Thatâs never been seen before in human history.â
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