Under RFK Jr and the Maha movement, Republicans have claimed the mantle \u2013 but their actions are full of contradictions<\/p>\n
On 25 February, in her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing, Casey Means, Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s nominee for surgeon general, called on the US government<\/a> to address key drivers of chronic disease, including \u201cultraprocessed foods, industrial chemical exposure\u201d and other factors. The same month, in a provocative Super Bowl ad<\/a> for the federal government\u2019s RealFood.gov site, Mike Tyson warned of the dangers of processed food. The recent developments confirm what\u2019s becoming conventional wisdom: the GOP is now the party of healthy food.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s high-profile moves<\/a> on red food dyes or the USDA food pyramid<\/a>. Conservative politicians and influencers are now attacking chemical additives, plastics, and ultra-processed ingredients as drivers of chronic disease. Republicans see<\/a> Maha, the \u201cmake America healthy again\u201d movement, as a rare cultural wedge that resonates outside the party\u2019s Maga base. The GOP\u2019s own polling memos show that Kennedy\u2019s movement could be their single most promising midterm strategy.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Under RFK Jr and the Maha movement, Republicans have claimed the mantle \u2013 but their actions are full of contradictions On 25 February, in her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing, Casey Means, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for surgeon general, called on the US government to address key drivers of chronic disease, including \u201cultraprocessed foods, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}