Make America Healthy Again supporters say the Trump administration’s new road map to improve children’s health is soft on industry — but they refuse to directly blame the president or movement leader Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Health and Human Services Department
Big Agriculture groups, pesticide-makers like Bayer, the Department of Agriculture and Hill Republicans are bearing the brunt of criticism from those within the movement, whose biggest issue with the MAHA Commission report released this week is its lack of a pesticide ban.
“I think outside of industry influence, we would have seen pesticides listed,” said Kelly Ryerson, founder of American Regeneration and an advocate for pesticide regulation. “This has Big Ag written all over it.”
David Murphy, a former fundraiser for Kennedy’s presidential campaign, called the report “a major missed opportunity” and “a clear sign that Big Ag, Bayer and the pesticide industry are firmly embedded in the White House.” Organic food advocate Elizabeth Kucinich, who is married to a former Kennedy campaign manager, said the pesticide section “reads like it was written by Bayer and Monsanto.”
