25: Robert F. Kennedy Jr's War on Health | The Nestle Baby Formula Scandal

In the 1970s, Nestlé sent representatives into some of the poorest communities in the developing world. They wore white coats. They carried themselves like nurses. And they told new mothers, again and again, that formula was better for their babies than breast milk — knowing that once lactation stopped, that mother was a customer for as long as the baby needed feeding. There was no wreckage to point to, no single smoking document, just a pattern of behavior so consistent that Nestlé's name still hasn't fully recovered, fifty years on.Now the man auditing the food industry's sins is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — an avowed anti-vaxxer who spent decades as a litigant against corporate polluters, somehow now running the U.S. Department of Health under Trump 2.0, and somehow uniting MAGA diehards with the public-health establishment he used to fight.So is "Make America Healthy Again" a genuine reckoning with an industry that's been running the tobacco playbook with better marketing, or one more unlikely coalition that won't survive contact with a Big Mac?- RFK Jr.'s seismic and paradoxical shift: how a man who built his name suing corporations for environmental harm became Secretary of Health, and why food, not vaccines, is the fight that's actually uniting his strangest allies- The Nestlé Baby Formula scandal: the reps dressed as medical professionals, the mothers in developing nations told a lie that suited a business model, and why the damage to Nestlé's name still hasn't fully faded fifty years later- The corporate anatomy of Big Food: the handful of conglomerates — Associated British Foods, Mondelez among them — that control everything from the sugar refinery to the supermarket shelf, and what a $30-billion snack company's own sustainability report reveals when you actually read it- The tobacco and pharma parallel: unconstrained profit motive, monopoly power, no real competition — the exact conditions the hosts have already traced through Big Tobacco and Big Pharma this season, now applied to what's in your pantry- Where "big" stops being neutral: the hosts try to draw the line between ordinary corporate scale and the kind of deliberate deception that turns a company into a conspiracySome of this is documented fact. Some is where reasonable people land on different sides. And if you want the chapters that set this one up, go back to the tobacco and pharma episodes earlier this season.Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out.Contact the show at [email protected] in touch with us:https://forms.gle/VaZB5S32KUGcuQVb6The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them.Contact the show at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.