Bizarre bedfellows: Far right Heritage Foundation leads conservative movement’s cautious embrace of RFK Jr.’s anti-government, anti-corporate MAHA campaign

Credit: Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Flickr
Credit: Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Flickr

During a panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation event, entrepreneur Calley Means, a fan of [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] and an advisor to Trump, urged regulators to get to the truth about the health effects of the widely used herbicides glyphosate and atrazine.

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Takeaways

  • The incoming Trump administration may push regulators to scrutinize ultra-processed foods and chemical additives in foods for harmful health effects.
  • Some in the Make America Healthy Again movement may pressure the US Food and Drug Administration to close a loophole that allows food companies to avoid premarket approval by declaring ingredients “generally recognized as safe.”
  • Congress and the US Department of Agriculture may face calls to reform agricultural subsidies on commodity crops.

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