'We are mass poisoning all of our children': RFK Jr. to Sen. Johnson's health panel

Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified, along with other witnesses, on a panel hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., about American health and nutrition in America. 

"We are mass poisoning all of our children and all of our adults," Kennedy Jr. said Monday. "Most of the food stamp lunch programs... about 70% of food stamps are processed food. We give eight times as much subsidies to tobacco in this country than we do to fruits and vegetables. It makes no sense if we want a healthy country."

Johnson on Monday hosted a panel titled "American Health & Nutrition: A Second Opinion" where a variety of witnesses testified about increased childhood obesity, processed food, Big Pharma, and the corruption of agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration. 

"The good news is that we can change all of this and we can change it very, very quickly and it starts with taking a sledgehammer to corruption," Kennedy Jr. said. "These conflicts have transformed our regulatory agencies into predators against the American people and particularly our children."

He claimed that 80% of grants from the National Institutes of Health go to scientists who are allowed to collect royalties of $150,000 a year on the products that they develop at the NIH and later "farm out to the pharmaceutical companies."

"The FDA, the USDA and CDC are all controlled by giant for-profit corporations," Kennedy Jr. said. "Their function is no longer to improve and protect the health of Americans."

Other witnesses on the panel included Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, nutritionist Jillian Michaels, and medical Dr. Casey Means.