Great speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"And we enriched all of these corporations and their captive agencies, and now want to go and commoditize all of the things we value in our lives. They're commoditized the Constitution. They have turned the courts into servants for authority, instead of the servants of the people.

They've commoditized the press and turned the press away from the First Amendment and into propagandists. They're commoditizing our landscapes. They're commoditizing our health. And they're commoditizing our children. And the biggest beneficiary of the pandemic was, of course, the pharmaceutical cartel.

And if you're a part of big pharma, the most valuable asset in this country today is a sick child. And so they want to keep you, they don't want to kill our children. They just want to keep them sick and dependent on chronic disease drugs for the rest of our lives. And they now have so much power over this, the exemplary democracy of the world, that they have been able to make us the sickest country in the world.

We have the sickest children in the world. When my uncle was president 6% of Americans had chronic disease. Today, that number is around 60%. When my uncle was president, I was a 10-year-old boy. We had 3.4% of Americans were obese. Today, 74% of Americans are obese or overweight.

Japan, 3% of the people are obese, the same as we were in 1960. We have explosions. Autism has gone from one in 10,000 to one in every 34. One in 10,000 in my generation, one in every 34 in my kid's generation.

Juvenile diabetes, which when I was a kid, the average pediatrician saw one case over a 50 year career. Today, one out of every three children who walks through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic. Our fertility levels are plummeting.

Teens today have 50% of the testosterone and 50% of the sperm count, as they did two generations ago. American girls are hitting puberty at eight years old. The average is between 10 and 13, which is six years younger than it was two generations ago. We have the lowest puberty rates among girls in the whole world in this country.

We have lost since 1970 when we were leading the world in longevity. We've lost six years compared to Europe. In Italy, we spent four times per capita what Italians pay for health care and we live 7.4 years less. So we are commoditizing ourselves.

We're destroying our country, including our national security. 77% of our children can no longer qualify for military service. And it's costing us $4.3 trillion a year. It is an existential threat to our country. Our country is strong and it's resilient. It's not going to be destroyed because we get the social safety net wrong or because we miscalculate about our health care system.

It's going to happen because chronic disease is going to destroy us and it's going to destroy us soon. If we don't win this election for a president who's going to make America healthy again. Who will bring me into into Washington, D.C. to reclaim our agencies from the pharmaceutical companies and from the big ag companies and the big food companies that are trying to destroy them."