President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday night aimed at reducing farm chemical use on food crops, a gesture toward a disillusioned Make America Healthy Again coalition.
But the executive order, which establishes advancing “private-sector innovation in farm modernization” and other regenerative agriculture practices as U.S. policy, stops short of any regulatory changes pushed by the MAHA advocates who are challenging Trump’s allegiance to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to reduce risky chemical exposures.
“This EO does nothing for chemical regulation but kick the can down the road,” said Vani Hari, a MAHA influencer and food blogger with a close relationship to Kennedy, in a post on the social media site X.
Trump ordered EPA, HHS and the Department of Agriculture to “expedite development of a research and evaluation framework for cumulative exposure across chemical classes that are regulated by statute in the food supply.”
