"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren Tuesday evening and exposed the dirtiest trick in the American food system. He says corporations hijacked an FDA loophole called “GRAS” to quietly flood our food with untested chemicals—without ever proving they were safe.
And the consequences didn’t take long to show up.
In the late 1980s and early ’90s, 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 wasn’t a coincidence. It was the result of a corporate takeover.
“At that time… the tobacco industry took over the food industry,” he said.
“By the early 1990s, the two biggest food companies in the world were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.”
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.
“They began moving scientists from the endeavor of making tobacco more addictive to developing new lab ingredients that would make food addictive.”
That’s when everything changed.
What had once been real food—grown, cooked, and served—became 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.
“Those chemicals were largely untested because of the capture of the FDA by the food and drug industries,” 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 loophole—one 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 use—like wheat, eggs, and dairy—wouldn’t need testing.
“When the FDA first began regulating foods in the 1940s, it exempted food ingredients that had been used for generations—like wheat, eggs, and dairy,” Kennedy said.
“They didn’t require testing for those.” But decades later, that narrow exemption was quietly weaponized.
“The food industry later captured that label and applied it to every new chemical they wanted to add.”
Instead of testing new additives, companies simply claimed they were “generally recognized as safe.” And the FDA, Kennedy said, went along with it.
The result? America now has more than 10,000 approved food ingredients. Europe? Just 400.
“In the U.S., chemicals are never safety tested before being added to food,” he said.
Some of those ingredients are derived from petroleum. Others mimic the flavor of strawberries or blueberries, without providing a single nutrient. And they’re not just empty calories.
“These chemicals hijack the brain and trick the body into eating more food while getting less nutrition.” That’s not just unhealthy—it’s unprecedented.
“We are now the fourth most obese country in the world,” Kennedy said, “yet for the first time in history, obesity is often accompanied by malnutrition.”
Think about that for a second.
“The people who are most obese are also malnourished. That’s never been seen before in human history.”
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AlexanderMorose13 0 points 2 hours ago
You seem quite knowledgeable. It's a great day to see someone else who cares about what they drink.
The liquid oxygen that I was referring to was medical grade liquid oxygen. It's easy to purchase if you have the license requirements met, and when mixed into water, it makes the water lighter and more "airy," and gives it a bigger splash.
Not everything is a "solution for all" kind of scenario, and I've met a few other people who talk often about how they only drink distilled water. Distilled water is removed of all impurities, which is great, but the problem that exists is when you switch over to water that has impurities. ALL water has impurities, and it's important to have water that is pure, but not TOO pure, because you're unable to filter water properly if you're drinking water that is too pure. It's not necessarily bad to drink only distilled water, but I'd supplement a glass of water from local sources (purified but not distilled) every now and then to balance out the amount of distilled water that you're drinking. That's just me. It's completely your choice to do what you want.
I personally drink negatively charged 9.5 pH alkaline water formed through an electrolysis machine, and then add liquid oxygen and an ozone treatment at the end. The human body is positively charged, and if you want to deliver water to the organs in the fastest method, you need a negative charge for hydration absorption and oxygen to move the water directly into the cells. When you drink a large portion of this kind of water, you don't feel bloated at all, and you're able to move around considerably faster. A major part of healthcare is based around oxygen and respiration.
For a long time, I was experimenting with MMS (Jim Humble) until I found out that a lot of the reason that MMS actually worked was due to the beneficial build of oxygen in the body as a side effect of the treatment. Keeping the body's water purified is a good way to kill disease, but keeping the body oxygenated destroys parasites and contaminants. Considering modern healthcare's desire to spread parasites, it's pretty much a given that anything that does the opposite must be a bad thing, right?
Last thing: temperature. Avoid ice and cold water. Ice is a luxury, but it's proven to cause heart attacks and heart distress. Cold water shocks the body, and the only thing your circulatory system does is circulate the water until it matches the body's temperature, and then send it to the kidneys to get filtered.