On the eve of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first confirmation hearing, a group of farmers sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee urging the chamber to support the former presidential candidate’s bid to become secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
A Vermont farmer and food rights activist, John Klar, drafted the letter which was signed by more than 130 fellow farmers.
“So much rancor has been fomented about Kennedy, yet healthier local food should bring all of us together,” Klar wrote.
“Americans are being sickened by factory foods that kill far more people every year from hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer than die from flu or other viruses….