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A comment on US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Other Foods. Parent comment

Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by gruez on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:24PM (#42719806)
>The incoming administration won't be banning things from our food. It will be removing regulations and allowing corporations to put whatever they want into their products no matter what the harms are.

But RFK was also complaining about all the additives added to foods in the US, and wanted to get rid of everything from ultra processed foods to seed oils?

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by autoexec on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:51PM (#42719992)
It will be interesting to see the conflict between the industry lobbyists stuffing trump's pockets with cash and RFK Jr. who is extremely opinionated. My guess is that either RFK Jr. folds and makes compromises whenever trump asks him to in order to stay in his position or he gets thrown out on his ass for standing up for what he believes. I really don't know how firmly RFK Jr will hold to his convictions, but I do know that Trump has no problems getting rid of anyone who refuses to be blindly loyal to him.
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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by gruez on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:01PM (#42720084)
Then why appoint RFK in the first place? Seems like a dumb move to appoint someone who you know is going to cause conflict later.
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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by autoexec on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:10PM (#42720151)
Why does he appoint any of the disastrously unqualified people that he does? He seems to enjoy creating chaos. Maybe he even hopes to put the food industry in a position where they have to beg him to rein in RFK Jr's plans.
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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by vharuck on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:20PM (#42733738)
Probably to get the votes of those who had been backing RFK Jr in the election.
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