70% of American children's diets is now ultra-processed

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "70% of American children's diets is now ultra-processed, which means industrial manufactured in a factory. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grain, and seed oils. Laboratory scientists, many of them, whom were formerly working for the cigarette industry, which purchased all of the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s deployed their thousands of scientists to invent new chemicals to make our food more addictive. And these ingredients didn't exist a hundred years ago. Humans are not biologically adapted to eat them. Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe. But they are ubiquitous in American processed foods. We are literally poisoning our children systematically for profit.
The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell in our bodies. This assault on our children's cells and hormones is unrelenting. They are swimming around in a toxic soup. And to name just one problem, many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors, America's fertility rate has now dropped. Sperm counts in teens are about 50% of what they were a couple of generations ago, and testosterone rates have dropped at the same rate. American puberty rates among our little girls is now 10 to 13 years of age. Our country has the earliest puberty rate of any continent. This is six years younger than it was in 1900. This is not normal. Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven and now strikes one in eight women. We are mass poisoning all of our children and all of our adults. Industry lobbyists have made sure most of the food stamp lunch program, about 70% of foods, most of the school lunch program, about 70% of food stamps are processed foods. 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."