Trump Picks Kennedy, Vaccine Skeptic, for Health Secretary [Video]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., leader of the loosely defined Make America Healthy Again coalition, will head the Department of Health and Human Services in the new administration, said President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to public health,” said Trump in announcing the nomination on social media.

The Food and Drug Administration, which oversees most of the U.S. food supply, is part of HHS. The USDA has jurisdiction over meat and poultry products.

Before the Nov. 5 elections, Kennedy filmed a video outside USDA headquartersand said, “America’s current ag policy is destroying America’s health on every level. It destroys the health of America’s soil and water by tilting the playing field in favor of more chemicals, more herbicides, more insecticides, more concentrated mono-crops and feedlots, and, finally, it destroys the health of consumers.” Kennedy, who’s best known as a …