RFK Suggests We Should All Eat Liver To Save Money — But Dietitians Say He Missed 1 Key Point

“If you buy a Porterhouse steak or a strip steak, it is gonna set you back. You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable," said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

At a publicity event for his Make America Healthy Again healthy-eating campaign, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that Americans purchase “cheap cuts” of meat instead of more expensive steak in light of the rising beef prices throughout the country.

At the MAHA event, Kennedy said, “If you buy a Porterhouse steak or a strip steak, it is gonna set you back. You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable.”

The nod to the liver is a surprising one to many people for more than one reason.

While the ingredient is more prominent in certain countries, such as in Egyptian cooking, and is sometimes served alongside onions on diner menus throughout the U.S., it’s not a protein that most Americans cook regularly — if at all.

And the emphasis on “cheap” foods feels ironic in an increasingly unaffordable country, experts told HuffPost, where the richest of Americans receive tax cuts while lower-income Americans lose health care and food assistance as funding for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, is slashed.