The incoming Trump administration poses a major threat to the unholy alliance between pharmaceutical giants and Big Agriculture.
With Republicans back in charge, Donald Trump’s administration is ready, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on standby, to take on America’s health crisis that’s been metastasizing for decades.
RFK Jr., likely to be the new health sheriff in town, is ready to get us off the Big Pharma/Big Agriculture chemical cocktail and back on track toward something shocking: actual health.
The Big Pharma Panic
The pharmaceutical industry is predictably in panic mode. Top pharma executives scrambled to hold an emergency meeting the moment the election was called, sources reportedly told Kennedy adviser and former New Jersey lawmaker Jamel Holley. And who could blame them? They know RFK Jr. has been gunning for them for years. Big Pharma has turned health care into a profit machine, getting Americans hooked on medications instead of helping them get well. It’s been a great gig for them — until now.
RFK Jr. is after the Food and Drug Administration too, with plans to gut the agency’s ties to Big Pharma. The FDA’s nutrition department and other departments “that are not doing their job” have to be abolished, he told MSNBC. “They’re not protecting our kids. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, but in Canada, it’s only got two or three?”
Perhaps his boldest proposal is banning pharmaceutical advertising in the media. Just imagine no more predatory commercials trying to convince you that your “bad sleep” needs an expensive prescription and no more soothing voices telling you about horrific side effects while cheerful actors frolic in meadows. Cutting Big Pharma’s influence off at the source would help clear the way for Americans to get real information instead of propaganda.
Banning direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical ads — which every nation besides the U.S. and New Zealand has already done — isn’t just some fringe idea formulated by RFK’s mind. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance has promoted the idea, including during his wide-ranging interview with influential podcaster Joe Rogan.
