SHOT: Trump Health Secretary RFK Jr. on The Bossticks podcast: “Mark Hyman’s new book has a menu, and it has a section in it where the book is called Food Fix, where he shows you how to eat, Americans, how to eat for $10 a day, three meals a day. Really good, tasty, delicious, wholesome, real food. … what he says, we don’t need more money, we just need to be smarter about how we buy and how we cook.”
CHASER: Veggie Prices Up 48.9 PERCENT in Latest Producer Price Index (costs that inevitably get passed on to consumers): According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics PPI News Release, 3.18: Over 20 percent of the February rise in the index for final demand goods is attributable to a 48.9-percent jump in prices for fresh and dry vegetables. The indexes for diesel fuel, chicken eggs, gasoline, jet fuel, and tobacco products also increased.
LIME: CNBC, 3.11: “The price of uncooked ground beef has increased about 15% since February 2025, according to the Consumer Price Index data.”
“Multi-millionaire RFK Jr. claims it’s easy for working families to put healthy food on the table for $10 a day, if they’re smart. Unless he means ramen noodles, the math isn’t mathing,” said Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care’s Public Health Project: “In Kennedy’s view, having enough money to eat healthy in the inflation-stricken Trump economy isn’t the problem, you are. Kennedy speaks so sanctimoniously for someone who sounds like he hasn’t stepped foot in a grocery store in years.”
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