MAHAs starting to discover who they serve

[Greenbeard]

Uh oh, cracks are forming between MAGA and MAHA over the deregulate-Big-Business-at-all-costs reality of MAGA vs. the MAHA aspiration of ridding the country of toxins. In the end the big business donors will always win.

Pesticides test MAHA, MAGA alliance

MAHA-aligned groups and influencers are raising alarms about provisions in a House appropriations bill they say will shield pesticide and chemical manufacturers from accountability — and ultimately make Americans less healthy.

Meanwhile, a draft of the administration’s “MAHA Report” on children’s health reportedly omits any calls to prevent pesticide exposure, also disappointing advocates.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his disciples espouse stricter environmental protections, while also bucking mainstream science on vaccine safety. Conservatives have traditionally sided with big business, supporting fewer regulations on potentially toxic substances.

So far, business interests appear to be winning. The industry-friendly draft of a report from a commission run by Kennedy shows just how much the White House has been able to rein him in.

While the pesticide issues have generated some sparks between MAHA and MAGA, the administration has taken a number of other actions to also reduce restrictions on the chemical industry more broadly.

Trump himself exempted from environmental standards more than 100 polluters, including chemical manufacturers, oil refineries, coal plants and medical device sterilizers.

The EPA, meanwhile, has put chemical industry alumni in leading roles and has said it wants to loosen restrictions on emissions of various cancer-linked chemicals.

 

[tshade]

Both MAGA and MAHA are pathetic. They both were too dumb & blind to see the writing on the wall in 2016.....and the writing was in letters 10 feet tall.....

 

[Greenbeard]

People are saying.

Will the MAHA Moms Turn on Trump?

What Means didn’t address is how these relatively minor changes balance out against other, far more sweeping and consequential anti-MAHA measures taken by the ostensibly pro-MAHA Trump Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, is seeking reapproval for banned pesticides and has lowered standards on forever chemicals in air, water, and soil. The Department of Agriculture ended two programs, totalling almost a billion dollars in funding, that helped schools and food banks make purchases from local and organic farms. And although Means—who has no medical, nutrition, or public-health credentials—has said that he’d like to “fire every single nutrition scientist in the government,” some of the more moderate maha rank and file may also blanch at the doge-driven purging of U.S.D.A. scientists and food-safety inspectors, or at the National Institutes of Health cancelling hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants related to maha priorities such as nutrition, chronic disease, and mental health.

In recent weeks, however, the MAHA flock has experienced rapidly intensifying cognitive dissonance. On a recent episode of the podcast “Why Should I Trust You?,” Honeycutt, discussing the rollbacks on regulations concerning pesticides and heavy metals, said, “I’m horrified as a mother who is working constantly to try to reduce the toxic exposure to my children and to the children all across the country.” On another podcast, “Culture Apothecary,” its host, Alex Clark, an influencer who is affiliated with the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, asked, “Did President Trump just hand legal immunity to pesticide companies?” She was referring to Republican-backed legislation, currently pending in the House, that would shield pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits; Clark’s guest, the clean-farming advocate Kelly Ryerson, called the bill “the most enormous slap in the face to MAHA.”

 

[Questerr]

People who want a healthier populace and who also want maximized capitalism are idiots.

Capitalism doesn’t care about people’s health. If they will make $1 more from poisoning people than the fines or lawsuits will cost them, then they will poison people.

 

[TangoNoCash]

People who want a healthier populace and who also want maximized capitalism are idiots.

Capitalism doesn’t care about people’s health. If they will make $1 more from poisoning people than the fines or lawsuits will cost them, then they will poison people.

The sad reality of the business brain.