Discussion on Food-Induced Illnesses

I will say this.

In 10 years,

there have been three measles deaths in America.

There are now about 1.2 million deaths

every year

from food-induced illness.

The, the media and certain

demo- you know, uh, demagogue politicians

are constantly trying to scare us about infectious disease,

and we take the attention away from the chronic disease that is being

caused by

powerful entities, by big food companies, by big pharmaceutical

companies. And what I'm trying to do as HHS

secretary, one, deal with the infectious disease

outbreaks, which we're

doing, but also redirect attention and

resources to the thing that's really killing Americans,

which are, are, uh, food-borne diseases.

Secretary Kennedy, um, I do wanna follow up on that-