Efforts to overhaul the U.S. food system have long been stymied by industry lobbying and glacial bureaucracy, said [Scott] Faber, senior vice president for the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit whose focus includes chemical safety and agricultural laws. Recent successes have come mostly at the state level, especially in California.
The Trump administration could change that. Faber’s crusade has been thrust into the national spotlight by the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s new head of U.S. health policy. Kennedy has blamed food companies and federal regulators for sickening Americans.
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Kennedy’s views on health don’t entirely align with Faber’s. But Faber said it shows people of all political stripes are angry about the status quo in food: “Just because some people are wrong about most things doesn’t mean they’re wrong about everything.”
