Musk, RFK Jr. drive off FDA inspectors, preserving my right to eat tainted meat
For far too long, we Americans have allowed the so-called government to trample our God-given right to eat food that might kill us.
So you can imagine how overjoyed I was to learn that Jim Jones, head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's food division, stepped down this week to protest the patriotic mass layoffs happening under President Donald Trump's bold, anti-safety administration.
Bloomberg reported that Jones' resignation letter cited the 'indiscriminate' layoffs and 'disdain' for qualified workers in his department. He added that it would be 'fruitless for me to continue in this role.'
Who needs food inspectors? Americans should be free to eat and die.
The letter noted the layoffs included people who review the safety of food ingredients and workers with 'highly technical expertise in nutrition, infant formula, food safety response.'
HAH! Take that, people with highly technical expertise in food safety!
Co-President Elon Musk has been taking the ax to the federal workforce, and I and others in my 'Free to Consume Red Dye No. 3!' Facebook group have been celebrating every bit of the evisceration.
With RFK Jr. in charge of health and food safety, what could go wrong?
Now that a brilliant non-doctor like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in charge of America's health and oversees the FDA, true lovers of liberty like myself will be free to eat whatever we want, happy in the knowledge it hasn't been 'inspected' by any 'health expert' to make sure it's 'safe.'
If I want to eat tainted meat to demonstrate my love of liberty, by God I will eat that tainted meat and come back for seconds, assuming I have not already died from a parasitic roundworm infection.
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Out with food inspections, in with ivermectin and raw milk!
Back in October, Kennedy posted on social media that the " FDA's war on public health ' is going to end:
'This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can't be patented by Pharma.'
That's what I'm talking about!
If I want to swig bacteria-laden raw milk while pounding horse dewormer and tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms in my hyperbaric chamber, no so-called federal agency should stand in the way of me and all-but-certain physical catastrophe. That's LITERALLY in the Constitution.
FDA notorious for intrusive actions that deny us E. coli exposure
Consider this recent act of FDA tyranny.
In January, CBS News reported that FDA inspectors found 'dozens of violations' at a company that supplied McDonald's restaurants with slivered onions.
Why was the FDA sticking its nose into the onion issue? Because the onions were linked to a deadly E. coli outbreak that spanned 14 states.
Listen, as an American, I have every right to walk into a McDonald's, order something and then take my darn chances. I don't need some food-safety bureaucrat with a savior complex trying to rescue me from unnecessary death or illness. That's between me and my Quarter Pounder, thank you very much.
I'm sure RFK Jr. will let us eat all the food dyes we want, right?
With RFK Jr. running the show, I feel more confident than ever that I'll be able to eat any chemicals or yuck-meat I want without the threat of government interference.
As Kennedy said in October about the possibility of heading up the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: 'The first thing I'd do isn't going to cost you anything because I'm just gonna tell the cereal companies ‒ Take all the dyes out of their food.'
Wait … what now? I thought we were stopping the FDA's war on public health by doing away with all the regulating and inspecting and stuff.
Man, the guys in my 'Free to Consume Red Dye No. 3!' Facebook group aren't gonna be at all happy about this.
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