RFK Jr. Promotes Company That Produces Pricey Ultraprocessed Meals, Claims It Will Make Americans Healthy
Microwave TV dinners are going to "Make America Healthy Again?" 🤔
The following report is by the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday praised a company that makes $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.
He even thanked Mom’s Meals for sending taxpayer-funded meals “without additives” to the homes of sick or elderly Americans. The spreads include chicken bacon ranch pasta for dinner and French toast sticks with fruit or ham patties.
“This is really one of the solutions for making our country healthy again,” Kennedy said in the video, posted to his official health secretary account, after he toured the company’s Oklahoma facility last week.
But an Associated Press review of Mom’s Meals menu, including the ingredients and nutrition labels, shows that the company’s offerings are the type of heat-and-eat, ultraprocessed foods that Kennedy routinely criticizes for making people sick.
The meals contain chemical additives that would render them impossible to recreate at home in your kitchen, said Marion Nestle, a nutritionist at New York University and food policy expert, who reviewed the menu for The AP. Many menu items are high in sodium, and some are high in sugar or saturated fats, she said.
“It is perfectly possible to make meals like this with real foods and no ultra-processing additives but every one of the meals I looked at is loaded with such additives,” Nestle said. “What’s so sad is that they don’t have to be this way. Other companies are able to produce much better products, but of course they cost more.”
Mom’s Meals do not have the artificial, petroleum dyes that Kennedy has pressured companies to remove from products, she noted.
Mom’s Meals’ products “do not include ingredients that are commonly found in ultra-processed foods” such as synthetic food dyes, high fructose corn syrup, certain sweeteners or synthetic preservatives that are banned in Europe, Teresa Roof, a company spokeswoman, said in an email. She did not address the company’s use of additives in the foods that make them ultraprocessed.
The meals are a “healthy alternative” to what many people would find in their grocery stores, said Andrew Nixon, U.S. Health and Human Services spokesman, in response to questions about Mom’s Meals.
Mom’s Meals is one of several companies across the U.S. that deliver “medically tailored” at-home meals. The meal programs are covered by Medicaid for some enrollees, including people who are sick with cancer or diabetes, as well as some older Americans who are enrolled in certain Medicare health insurance plans.
Patients recently discharged from the hospital can also have the meals delivered, according to the company’s website.
It’s unclear how much federal taxpayers spend on providing meals through Medicaid and Medicare every year. An investigation by STAT news last year found that some states were spending millions of dollars to provide medically tailored meals to Medicaid enrollees that were marketed as healthy and “dietitian approved.” But many companies served up meals loaded with salt, fat or sugar — all staples of an unhealthy American’s diet, the report concluded.
Defining ultraprocessed foods can be tricky. Most U.S. foods are processed, whether it’s by freezing, grinding, fermentation, pasteurization or other means. Foods created through industrial processes and with ingredients such as additives, colors and preservatives that you couldn’t duplicate in a home kitchen are considered the most processed.
Kennedy has said healthier U.S. diets are key to his vision to “Make America Healthy Again.” His call for Americans to increase whole foods in their diets has helped Kennedy build his unique coalition of Trump loyalists and suburban moms who have branded themselves as “MAHA.”
In a recent social media post where he criticized the vast amount of ultraprocessed foods in American diets, Kennedy urged Americans to make healthier choices.
“This country has lost the most basic of all freedoms — the freedom that comes from being healthy,” Kennedy said.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Microwave TV dinners are going to "Make America Healthy Again?" At $7 a pop?
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
If you watched my video about why MAHA is DEAD, then you know this is the very thing I talked about and pointed out, that removing the toxic dyes is just a red herring. Sure, I am all for removing food colorings, but that is just one aspect; and this push by all these major companies to remove food dyes will probably con Americans into eating more ultraprocessed foods and fattening up their kids some more because Bobby told them the dyes are removed; and you know these companies are probably going to start putting that on the packaging to further sell the deception, as they scarf down more ultraprocessed, chemical, pesticide and fluoride-laden foods and beverages.
So what does Kennedy do? He promotes ultraprocessed microwave TV dinners - prepared meals that, on top of the issues I just listed, have tons of plastic leeching and food quality that is weakened even further as it gets irradiated by microwaves. And at the price point Mom’s Meals offers, you can easily prepare organic and pasture-raised meals, made from scratch or with minimal processing, at the same price or a smidge more if not even perhaps cheaper.
As predicted, MAHA will just make you sicker:
What’s next? Is Bobby going to gaslight us into saying Kraft Lunchables are healthy because they removed dyes from that horse crap pretending to be “food?” Will we get MAHA-approved Pop Tarts and Hot Pockets and Pepsi too? (LOL).
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He's a Kennedy. That alone lets you know he's not to be trusted or believed.
Next week he will have the #5 orange removed From kraft dinner and call it a health pasta meal.