What RFK JR is attempting to do with the GRAS Loophole is one one the greatest things any HHS secretary has ever done…
To truly appreciate it, you have to understand the history.
In 1958, the U.S Government created the designation “Generally Recognized as Safe” or (GRAS), so we can make common ingredients like salt or baking soda exempt from testing.
But over the decades, GRAS has been widely abused by food companies and cooperative legislators, and regulators are now determining if a substance is “safe”.
In European nations, EVERY ingredient is required to be proven safe before becoming a food ingredient.
—— in America, it’s just the opposite, and food ingredients are not deemed unsafe until after millions of Americans are harmed.
- Kennedy highlights a stark contrast: Europe permits only about 400 legal food ingredients under rigorous standards.
- In the US, he states that HHS and the FDA do not even know the precise number of ingredients in American food, with estimates varying widely between 4,000 and 10,000.
He has directed the FDA to explore rulemaking that would eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway, which currently allows companies to declare new food ingredients "Generally Recognized as Safe" without notifying the FDA or providing safety data publicly. This change would require mandatory notification and transparency for all ingredients.
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In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.
That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.
FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.
US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.
So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.
Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.
Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.
They will not.
Blue bags up.
Japan 2, Netherlands 2 — an absolute thriller in Arlington. And then the real show started.
The Japanese end pulls out thousands of bright blue bags. First they wave them like flags, bouncing and chanting until the whole section is one giant wall of blue. Then — same bags, new mission. They fan out across the stands and scoop up every bottle, wrapper and cup till the seats look brand new.
And who's right in the middle of it, grinning with a bag in his hand? Jameis Winston. Giants QB. Heisman winner. Out there cleaning up with the Samurai Blue like it's the best gig of his summer.
No chore. No lecture. Just a party that cleans up after itself.
Best fans on the planet. 🇯🇵💙