RFK Jr. faces battles in quest to change America's food

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) said he believes next year's Republican-controlled Senate could confirm Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services if Trump were to nominate him.
49% : Kennedy's expected role in overseeing aspects of food policy in the new administration marks a significant shift in how Trump is planning to regulate the nation's food.
42% : He has said Trump wants to "get the chemicals" out of food.
37% : Trump has yet to specify whether Kennedy will be nominated for a Cabinet-level position or given an advisory role such as White House health czar.
36% : Trump advisers have praised Kennedy's campaign appearances ever since he abandoned his third-party bid for president and endorsed Trump, and the president-elect has said Kennedy will be given a significant position in his administration.
30% : Susan Mayne, former director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition under Obama, Trump and Biden, said existing regulations are robust but that the agency needs more scientists reviewing chemicals found in processed food.
28% : The two are strange bedfellows, as Trump proudly has served McDonald's at the White House while Kennedy this week called the Big Macs and Kentucky Fried Chicken on Trump's campaign plane "poison.
13% : She said she believes that Kennedy can work to root out "corruption" in federal agencies by curbing influence of industry-funded research and leaning on Trump to ban thousands of chemicals she says are harmful that are used only by companies in the United States.

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