Key Nominees for Ag Pt 2
From the Ag Information Network, this is today’s Fruit Grower Report. President-elect Trump’s cabinet will soon be taking shape with the Ag industry watching closely.Pam Lewison, Ag Director at the Washington Policy Center, says the pending confirmation of Robert F Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services could make the recent debate over our dietary guidelines interesting …
LEWISON … “He has shown an unusual interest in, what I will call, alternative health priorities.”
RFK Jr, Lewison says has curious cohorts …
LEWISON … “He helped host a Senate hearing several months ago that featured what were supposed to be experts in ag and health, and they were largely not. They were all sort of, I guess what you could consider health gurus and marketers rather than people with any actual expertise in food production.”
And for food producers, Lewison says that’s awkward …
LEWISON … “The trouble with that is, when you have people guiding food policy who’ve never actually grown it and who list in their bios things like aspiring clean gardener, you don’t actually have any real connection to how food is grown properly.”
Lewison says when you have those kinds of people making
policy decisions, it puts us at a real disadvantage, and that is concerning.