Dr. Ben Carson joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Sept. 24 as a national adviser for nutrition, health, and housing.
“We’re going to really try to look at food from its inception, from the time it is planted, how the soil is treated by the time it is harvested, how it gets to stores, how it gets to the home, what happens to it in between, because we want the things that happen to it in between to be good things, not things that add to the devaluation of our foods,” Carson told reporters in Washington after he was sworn in. “And that’s going to make a big difference for our health.”
