by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
The Trump Administration’s efforts to protect the German company Bayer, which sells the popular herbicide Roundup with toxic, cancer-causing glyphosate, is causing the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement to crumble.
Not only did Trump issue an executive order to INCREASE the production of glyphosate, the current U.S. Farm bill is also seeking to give legal immunity to Bayer for harm caused by glyphosate.
Many of the members of the MAHA movement are traditionally Democrat mothers, who crossed over and voted for Trump in the last elections based solely on his promise to eliminate this kind of chemical-intensive farming.
The head of the MAHA movement, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is also a former liberal Democrat, who was actually one of the attorneys that won a multi-million dollar settlement against Bayer/Monsanto by a California man.
From the New York Times:
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MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’
The MAHA Moms have turned on President Trump.
When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threw his support behind Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign for the White House, his corps of health conscious, mostly female, followers embraced the president, who pledged to address Americans’ concerns about “toxins in our environments and pesticides in our food.”
Some of the women, who call themselves the MAHA Moms after Mr. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement, abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for Mr. Trump.
But the executive order Mr. Trump issued Wednesday to increase domestic production of glyphosate — a widely used weedkiller and possible carcinogen that has been the target of thousands of lawsuits, including one brought by Mr. Kennedy — stunned and infuriated the activists.
It now threatens to turn the brief MAHA-Trump marriage into a divorce.
“Women feel like they were lied to, that MAHA movement is a sham,”
said Alex Clark, a health and wellness podcaster for the conservative group Turning Point U.S.A., which is closely allied with the president.
“How am I supposed to rally these women to vote red in the midterms? How can we win their trust back? I am unsure if we can.”
One of the leaders of the MAHA movement is Zen Honeycutt, the founder of Moms Across America. She was recently interviewed by Jimmy Dore, where she reported on how most of the glyphosate is currently manufactured in China, and that 80% of American genetically-modified crops that are sprayed with glyphosate are actually exported to Asia as animal feed.
This is a good interview that sums up the situation very well.
The only thing I would disagree with Zen about, is her statement that
“20% of organic can have contamination of glyphosate because of fraudulent labeling. “
I am not sure where she is getting the 20% figure from, but finding glyphosate in organic products is primarily NOT due to “fraudulent” labeling.
While the USDA NOP (National Organics Program) does prohibit organic farmers from spraying their crops with Roundup and other herbicides that contain glyphosate, it does allow for the presence of glyphosate due to “drift and contamination“.
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