Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, leading to questions about how Kennedy’s views could impact the agriculture industry.
Before Trump officially announced that he was choosing Kennedy to run the Department of Health and Human Services, in an interview with NPR, Kennedy said that Trump gave him three instructions.
“He wants the corruption and the conflicts out of the regulatory agencies. He wants to return the agencies to the gold standard empirically based, evidence-based science and medicine that they were once famous for,” Kennedy said in the interview. “And he wants to end the chronic disease epidemic with measurable impacts on a diminishment of chronic disease within two years.”
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Several of Kennedy’s views on herbicides and seed oils could bring some changes to the agriculture industry, even though he would not be serving in the Environmental Protection Agency or the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
