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CNN's Tom Foreman follows US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reality cooking show "Real Food" recipes to see if he can whip up the same dish for the claimed price point.

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But what we all want to know is if he’s being paid and how much making the show Also why the f is he making cooking shows with all the disease outbreaks and food contaminations? He’s got nothing better to do?

CNN IS DISGUSTING. WE'RE AWASH IN DIARRHEA LETTUCE, SLMONELLA EGGS, AND POISON EVERYTHING FROM POPSICLES TO BLUEBERRIES AND HERE'S CNN PROMOTING THE QUACKERY OF THE KKKUNT WHO IS AT THE ROOT OF OUR FOOD SYSTEM'S COLLAPSE...NOT TO MENTION THE EPIDEMIC RESURGENCE OF SOLVED DISEASES. GFYs. #BOYCOTTCNN

How much does road kill cost per pound? Will my local grocery store carry dead bear with trend marks? If I can't get one with tread marks what is a good substitute?

American media is not ethically or objectively prepared to cover the rise of fascism in the United States. Media fawning over fascist know-nothings is disgusting and un-American. Stop fascist appeasement in media!

I think the target audience might not even notice the innacuracy. This is for the affluent voters that think poor people just haven't selected the right food items. The people who don't understand the practicality of ready made and canned stuff.

By the numbers (accepting, for a moment, the ridiculousness of that $20 claim), that's 1 meal. Let's assume, oh, 3 meals per day. That's $60... x30 days... that's $1800/month. That also assumes an appropriately operational kitchen, and time to do the work (between shifts trying to pay the bills).

Are we not concerned that our govt officials in the CABINET seem more concerned with their frivolous entertainment glamour products than their actual jobs? These are the highest officials in important government agencies. They aren’t influencers. FFS this country is a fucking joke.

If he lies in the 1st sentence, then all the rest of his sentences are lies. Original Food ▲ never mentioned brand name foods. 2005, the Food ▲ was replaced by MyPlate. So, MyPlate, not the Food ▲, was the graphic for the dietary guidelines since 2011. That’s how outdated RFK Jr.’s thinking is.

If I want brain-eating parasites then I’ll follow Robert F Kennedy Junior’s advice. if I don’t want brain-eating parasites, I won’t follow Robert F Kennedy Junior’s advice. 

It is so incredulous as to how many people in this administration are nuts and nasty. Trump, Vance, Blanche, Hegseth, Miller, Mullin, Johnson, Homan, Patel, Bondi, Noem, Harp, Leavitt, Lutnick, Musk, Bissett, Duffy, and others. If they suddenly vanished, how much better the world would be.

Was going to snark back but you make a fair point. I'll take any opportunity to point out that RFK Jr is a dangerous eugenicist actively harming the health of everyone in this country. Spending time on a trivial recipe debunking relative to lies about vaccines seems like wasted resources.

The Trump people literally lie about everything, and just about all of them are unqualified to be in their positions. The only qualification that was considered was their dedication to kissing Trump significant ass.

this is embarrassing as hell. Robert Kennedy is a quack. He's supposed to be in a position of public trust. You're treating this like a fun little diversion when the man is actively undermining public health in the U.S. Shame on you.

What propaganda? People are aware you can cook meals at home. The issue is more than just "can you make healthy food", its money, time, and access to equipment to cook with (which is technically just money a second time). Hell in many areas its access to ingredients. Rural IGA won't have salmon.

Real hard hitting journalism. Glad to know that JRK jr lies. What's next? Buying Trump phones and finding out they are crap?

I greatly appreciate Foreman’s time and effort in conducting this cost comparison and using his platform to share the process and the results. Now, more than ever, it’s imperative to call out the disinformation/lies.

This should be followed by the director of the CDC’s reality show “Food Borne Illnesses Can Be Fun” in which she talks about how to enjoy life with the explosive diarrhea you get after eating RFK’s meal of infected lettuce and parasite laden salmon.

This man does not believe in germs, swims in sewage, and snorts coke off public toilet seats. Do not, repeat, DO NOT consume any food this man has handled, much less made with his bare, filthy hands. Ewwww 🤢🤢🤮

I think the right to evaluate cost is to make as many servings as possible with the highest price ingredient per serving, then estimate how much you’ve used of other ingredients, project their cost per serving and estimate the total cost per serving?

one of the things I hate about this government is how all of them just want to be social media influencer girlies and are using the vast resources of federal government departments to muscle their way into being instagram influencers

God, I hope the next administration is full of dull people who just want to do their jobs. My fear is this influencer/podcast host BS will be a template that Democrats want to follow. Although Mamdani is all over social media, showing that he’s doing the job.

I think the stark difference between Mamdani vs RFK JR here, just to use those two as poles in this discussion, is that Mamdani is operating within reality and going from there. RFK Jr is operating in the attempts to force a reality that simply does not exist.

I think unfortunately, like social media posts will never be a good way to explain policy so even good things are going to be misrepresented and you run the risk of government chasing the social media high which is bad

Considering how the consultant class operates purely off of a charts and polls, yeah this would be like the similar enshitification that happened with the introduction of AI to social media. If anything, campaigning, messaging and politicking would get much much worse.