While the first aftershocks of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report were assessing the public perception of the claims made against current production agriculture, very quickly those claims could be used in tangible policy change recommendations.
This has agricultural leaders and groups sounding the alarm to bring forward the false claims before Aug. 12, which is when the MAHA commission will announce its policy recommendations.
Kip Tom, farmer and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations’ Agencies for Food and Agriculture says MAHA is undermining science and food security.
He’s invited Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to visit his farm.
“If there’s anyone that’s got a stake in this, that really needs to be engaged in the conversation, it’s the farmer,” Tom says. “This [MAHA] is a movement. It’s gotten large. It is growing in size daily. If we don’t get in front of it, I’m fearful for what agriculture will look like going forward in the future.”
He says while it can be easy to agree to make American healthier again, the movement is causing more schisms than bringing forward science-based ideas for progress.
“For agriculture, our voice can be heard, and this is time for us to come together,” he says. “I’ve seen some draft agenda items in terms of some bills that would like to be proposed to rein us in our use of crop care products that would be very restrictive,...
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