Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: We have the sickest children in the world right now

"We have the sickest children in the world right now. There's nobody in the world that has that. When I was a kid, the autism rate among American children and in 70 year old men today in my generation is one in 10,000. In my children's generation, it's one in every 34 kids, one in every 22 boys.

And the diabetes, a typical physician when I was a kid would see one case of juvenile diabetes in his lifetime or 40 or 50 year career. Today, one out of every three kids who walk through his office or is diabetic or pre-diabetic, and it's costing us $4.3 trillion a year. It costs zero for, we paid zero for chronic disease when my uncle was president. Today it's the biggest expense. Five times our military budget. It's easy to fix.

We have a thousand ingredients in our foods that are illegal in Italy and other countries in Europe. And the reason for that is corruption at the food industry and the agriculture, big agricultural producers control FDA. And so they're not worried about public health.

They're worried about advancing the mercantile interests of those corporations. And they've let them do things. You know, the companies, the big cereal companies, make two kinds of cereals. Like Fruit Loops in our country is just loaded with chemicals and food dyes that are carcinogenic that they are going to go up.

Because ADHD in your kids, if you go across the border to Canada or to Europe, you have the same product but it has no dyes in it. It has good ingredients. So these companies know how to do it. Right. They can get away with it here."