MAHA Report’s Rhetoric Contradicts Administration’s Actions

A new report released by the Make American Healthy Again (MAHA) commission led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. peddles a great deal of misinformation, even citing fake studies, however, its sections on ultra-processed foods and chemicals do speak truth to corporate power.

The MAHA report makes bold proclamations about holding food and chemical corporations accountable for their corruption and threats to children’s health. Yet public health advocates say that the Trump administration’s cost-cutting and deregulatory actions will make it harder to vet the harmful foods and chemicals the MAHA commission criticizes.

“In many instances, even when the report has a good idea, like increasing consumption of whole, unprocessed foods, the remedies suggested are at odds with efforts of Kennedy, Trump, Musk, and Republicans in Congress to decimate the federal workforce and government spending,” said Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in a statement.

The MAHA commission also appears susceptible to the very corporate influence it critiques. Agribusiness interests reportedly lobbied to remove sharper criticism of pesticides from the report.