By Leah Douglas | Source
Members of the U.S. Make America Healthy Again movement that backs Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say an executive order this week to boost domestic production of the weedkiller glyphosate risks their support in November’s midterm elections.
Kennedy backers helped elect President Donald Trump in 2024, and he has installed MAHA priorities during his second term, such as reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines and promoting whole foods in the new dietary guidelines.
The administration drew criticism from MAHA activists last year for removing draft language on pesticides from an August report on children’s health and for the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of new pesticides.
On Wednesday, Trump’s executive order invoked the Defense Production Act to ensure the domestic supply of phosphorus and glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller at the center of tens of thousands of lawsuits by plaintiffs claiming it causes cancer.
MAHA activists said they saw Trump’s executive order as a broken promise to their movement, which opposes the widespread use of glyphosate due to health concerns.
“I don’t feel like there’s much hope after this executive order in preserving the MAHA vote,” said Kelly Ryerson, co-executive director of American Regeneration and a critic of glyphosate use.
The order says glyphosate is “crucial to the national security and defense, including food-supply security.”
White House spokesman Kush Desai said the Trump administration is committed to the MAHA agenda.
“The President’s executive order is not an endorsement of any product or practice. This action simply seeks to strengthen our national security and end America’s decades-long reliance on foreign imports and supply chains,” Desai said in a statement.
Estimates vary widely on how many voters MAHA includes, but it represented a large part of Kennedy’s support during his aborted presidential campaign.
TRUMP’S ORDER FOLLOWED BAYER
Trump’s order came after Bayer (BAYGn.DE), opens new tab, the only company that produces glyphosate in the U.S., proposed a $7.25 billion legal settlement this week to address tens of thousands of lawsuits claiming its glyphosate weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.
The German company said last August that it could be forced to stop U.S. production unless regulatory changes were made to stave off that litigation. The U.S. imports large volumes of glyphosate from China.
Bayer has maintained that glyphosate is safe for human use. The science on glyphosate’s safety is mixed, with some research showing it can affect the endocrine system or linking it to cancer.
Dave Murphy, founder and CEO of United We Eat and former finance manager on Kennedy’s presidential campaign, called the executive order a “strategic mistake” that could serve as an election liability.
“Trump would not be in the White House this second time without those followers, and we expect him to live up to his word,” Murphy said.
Kennedy, a longtime glyphosate critic who in a 2024 post on X called it “one of the likely culprits in America’s chronic disease epidemic,” said in a statement that the executive order is necessary for national security.
There is no need for the severely detrimental to human etc health, use of glyphosate in agriculture.
The solution to ample provision of the most nutrient dense produce w/o the use of pesticides is readily practicable in the discoveries of Dr. Carey Reams who proved that any acre of land, properly prepared with the correct ratios of minerals can grow 4 X, (that is FOUR TIMES) as much food in the same space that will have the highest BRIX level and be untouched by insect predation.
(Insect distaste, (apparently based on frequencies which each plant generates!!) for perfect produce w/o pesticides indicates that perhaps their divine role is to destroy defective plant growth that does not sustain life adequately? ht
tps://highbrixgardens.com/what-is-brix.htm
The chemical that is being championed increases risk of spina-bifida in children, and suppresses magnesium assimilation in everyone increasing risk of c@ncer, stroke, high blood pressure and heart attacks. Dr. Stephanie Seneff read ht
tps://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/folic-acid-glyphosate/#gsc.tab=0
Please research the author on a search engine that is not S-en-sored.
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It is time to create at least a level playing field for or ganic, grass and regenerative farming. The principles of R B T I can be applied on a large scale as well as gardens and farms.
Terrible EO…glyphosate is weed killer sprayed on our wheat causes cancer and many other health issues…what is Trump thinking??? RFK Jr too?
Super disappointed about that. Trump might want to resend that EO. That was not looking out for his people. Very upset he did that. There are options out there. He has been stonewalled by Bayer it looks like. Now he better write up an eo to allow lawsuits to all big pharma be accountable for their poisons.
RFKjr dropped the ball BIG TIME — and doesn’t seem able to pick it up again by siding with the Epstein-tainted President. All of the Zionists in T’s administration appear to be tainted by satanism and pedophilia (and lots more disgusting things being brought out by the EPSTEIN FILES). WE CANNOT ABIDE OR STAND BEHIND ANYONE GUILTY OF THESE CRIMES AGAINST MAN AND NATURE. He (RFKjr) with his ludicrous “glyphosate needed to grow more food” has ALREADY LOST US.