A week after President Donald Trump declared that a popular weedkiller that’s been linked to cancer is critical to national security, MAHA activists set their sights on an ongoing EPA review to aid their campaign against glyphosate.
Trump’s executive order last week promoting use of glyphosate, the pesticide marketed as Roundup, came as an unexpected blow to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s base of “Make America Healthy Again” supporters.
Instead of retreating on efforts to restrict pesticide use, however, the health movement’s leaders want to use the moment and attention on toxic exposures to reinvigorate the base’s anti-chemical advocacy. For some MAHA supporters, the next front would be EPA — the agency in charge of pesticide reviews and regulations that activists historically have treated with skepticism.
“We are at an inflection point,” said Alexandra Muñoz, an independent toxicologist and MAHA activist. “This amount of attention on glyphosate is unprecedented. … I know for myself, and the others I’m working with, we have no intention of slowing down — corporate capture has led to the poisoning of Americans for long enough.”
