RFK Jr launched a cooking show promoting raw vegetables topped with suet as part of broader health recommendations. The program drew attention amid ongoing debates over dietary guidelines and public health messaging. The piece portrays the suggestion as unappealing and out of touch with conventional tastes.
The cartoon depicts a large figure labeled Big Ag adding to bins of sugar, fat and salt while children gather around a blue container of Red Bull cans. One child reads packaging as another delivers the caption line about new school nutrition guidelines treating the energy drink as a food group. Published in 2020, the image responds to debates over federal school meal standards and industry influence on child nutrition policy. It uses the visual of kids receiving the drinks to underscore concerns that guidelines had been relaxed to permit more processed items in cafeterias.
In this 2011 cartoon, members of Congress dressed as cafeteria workers squeeze tomato paste onto pizza while an USDA official is tossed into a trash bin labeled nutrition guidelines. The food industry lobby stands by approvingly as a student thanks the lawmakers for being cooler than the previous lunch lady. The image captures congressional action that year to block stricter USDA rules on sodium, potatoes and what counts as a vegetable in school meals. Lawmakers effectively preserved the status of pizza and french fries on cafeteria menus by redefining tomato paste servings.
