Thursday, October 09, 2025
PMT: Where Newsome and Kennedy Agree
Robert Kennedy (Secretary of Health and Human Services) and Gavin Newsome (Governor of California) apparently agree on one important thing: that ultraprocessed foods don't belong in school lunches.
Apparently, Newsome is doing something about it. He just signed into law a set of rules that will greatly reduce kids' exposure to junk food at school. That could have an effect on the rest of us, too: companies may change their recipes to avoid the worst examples of dangerous ingredients to comply with California law, and the rest of us will benefit from the new formulation.
Kids can always bring their own Twinkies to lunch, I suppose-- but this measure will at least cut down on schools pushing the stuff directly onto lunch trays.
