Jim Jones, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division, resigned on Monday, citing what he called “indiscriminate” layoffs that would make it “fruitless for him to continue,” the New York Times reports.
Said Jones: “I was looking forward to working to pursue the department’s agenda of improving the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food.
”But the Trump administration’s “disdain for the very people” who would do that work gave him no choice but to depart.