Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s message on food issues Thursday, and said he had not made up his mind on whether he would oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Kennedy to head the nation’s health agencies.
In an interview with CBS News correspondent Natalie Brand, the independent Vermont senator said that he feared some of Kennedy’s views on health issues are “extremely dangerous,” criticizing Kennedy’s call to pull fluoride out of U.S. water supply systems and his “very wrong” views on vaccines.
“I think what he’s saying about the food industry is exactly correct. I think you have a food industry concerned about their profits, could care less about the health of the American people. I think they have to be taken on,” Sanders told Brand.
Sanders, who currently serves as chair of the Senate’s health committee, said he had last spoken to Kennedy years ago. He said he was looking forward to sitting down and talking with Trump’s picks to head other health agencies who would report to Kennedy.
“Trump over the years, and Kennedy himself, has talked about as a health problem, the fact that we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. And if I’m not mistaken, Kennedy has talked about the need for Americans not to pay more than the people in other countries. I think that’s exactly right,” he said.
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