Trump boosts MAHA-style farming after movement suffers Roundup loss
“The farmers in America are talking and this administration is listening.” Glyphosate and the Trump administration Glyphosate has been driving a wedge between the MAHA movement and Trump’s Make America Great Again coalition for several months. AdvertisementActivists, including now-HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., started to rally against glyphosate and its maker, the German company Bayer, after the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization declared the chemical “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in 2015.
- ▪“The farmers in America are talking and this administration is listening.” Glyphosate and the Trump administration Glyphosate has been driving a wedge between the MAHA movement and Trump’s Make America Great Again coalition for several mont
- ▪AdvertisementActivists, including now-HHS Secretary Robert F.
- ▪Kennedy Jr., started to rally against glyphosate and its maker, the German company Bayer, after the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization declared the chemical “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in 2015.
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President Donald Trump is investing in regenerative agriculture to appease the Make America Healthy Again base ahead of the midterm elections, a move that follows a disastrous blow to the movement’s anti-pesticide goals from the Supreme Court.Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Thursday to increase investment from the departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture in regenerative agriculture, a set of farming practices that reduces dependence on pesticides and chemical fertilizers to improve ecosystem health.
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