Posted on 08/14/2025 2:23:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement is taking off in red — and blue — states, even as health experts condemn some of his actions.
Republicans were also solely behind 80 percent of the bills this year to restrict geoengineering, a conspiracy theory that the U.S. government is controlling the weather by spraying chemicals into the sky. Legislation introduced related to ivermectin has grown fivefold since last year, while bills prohibiting geoengineering have more than doubled.
Democrats, meanwhile, were behind the vast majority of bills to curb plastics and pesticide use. Roughly 70 percent of the measures to phase out pesticides this year like glyphosate, the principal ingredient in the world’s most popular weedkiller, Roundup, were sponsored solely or mostly by Democrats, according to POLITICO’s analysis. Regulators say the product is no danger if used as directed, but juries have awarded billions to people claiming it caused their cancer.
The states-based effort to restrict pesticides offers MAHA supporters a chance to secure policy wins outside a White House navigating competing interests. Following intense pressure from agricultural lobbyists, the Trump administration assured farm groups earlier this summer that the final MAHA report would include no new policy around pesticide use. MAHA supporters have urged the administration to hold firm, with Moms Across America, a MAHA-aligned group, co-signing a letter last week pushing for a moratorium on glyphosate.
Supporters of the moratorium fear lobbyists for Bayer, Roundup’s maker, are going to get their way.
“There was more of an expectation that [the White House] would be able to operate on their agenda in a vacuum and there would be less interference,” said Liam Sacino, a public health advocate at the Public Interest Research Group, an environmental group that organized the letter. “Now that they are the bureaucrats, they see what the political limitations of...”
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Congress out of touch with the electorate?
Imagine that.
>>Supporters of the moratorium fear lobbyists for Bayer, Roundup’s maker, are going to get their way.
The patent on Roundup is long expired (2000). While Bayer probably makes it, lots of other folks certainly do as well.
Based on this alone, I am forced to conclude this writer hasn’t a clue.
Congresscritters are in bed with Big pharma. Greed is what motivates them because they don’t care at all about the people. Only what benefits themselves.
Outlaw glyphosate and agricultural yields will plummet.
No doubt it causes cancer in some people, but outlawing it would cause starvation in a lot more people.
Oh Politico, you generate these obvious and totally bullshit strawmen. JFK doesn’t hasn’t spoken out about chemtrails. But he does have concerns about mRNA vaccine tech.
Anyone paying attention during Covid should, on that last. Especially if they read Dr. Robert Malone on the subject.
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