Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent his first year as health and human services secretary suppressing medical innovation, and now he’s turned his sights to another obsession: policing what people eat.
“We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, ‘Show us the safety data that show that it’s okay for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it,’” he said last week. “I don’t think they’re going to be able to do it.”