Chapter 1: What significant changes has MAHA implemented in the past year?
So we are a year into Trump's second term, and I truly believe that in many ways, Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, will be what Trump 2.0 is remembered for. Because in one year, we have banned petroleum-based dyes for food. We have increased testing for heavy metals and infant formula. We have the nation's first ban on adding fluoride to public drinking water.
We banned certain dyes and chemical additives in public school meals. Take that, Michelle Obama. There are now restrictions on using SNAP benefits to purchase soda and processed foods. We are now using AI models instead of animal testing, lowering the prices of prescription drugs.
We have safety reviews of fluorides, upending the food pyramid, talking about the benefits of ketogenic diets with schizophrenia, which obviously is very close and personal to my heart, and reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines. That's a lot. The government usually doesn't get a lot done, but they certainly did in the last year. So I reflect on this list and my mind is blown.
And a lot of this happened because of pressure from everyday Americans. But I want to let you know that the work is not done yet. And unfortunately, we are still getting started because it looks like Maha might have been compromised by Big Chemical.
So what you need to know is that in every level of government, Big Chemical is basically strong-arming Maha out of the way and fighting to strip Americans of their rights. And like all bad laws, because we have experience with this, Congress tried to sneak one of these in during the 11th hour of a 20,000-page bill that had nothing to do with Maha or be chemical.
Section 453 was a provision in the House Interior Environment Appropriations Bill, AKA the latest funding bill, was proposed to limit state or local authority to regulate pesticides and protect manufacturers from failure to warn lawsuits from everyday Americans.
One article on this reads that a new federal proposal could tie the hands of regulators, leaving children and communities exposed to proven toxins for decades. Section 453 is buried in the US House Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2026, which begins on October 1st.
It is a short clause in a very, very large bill that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, from updating pesticide warnings in a timely fashion. The EPA conducts a full review of the safety of individual chemicals only once every 15 years. Section 453 would lock pesticide safety standards in place between reviews, even if strong new evidence of harm emerges.
So essentially, this is prioritizing huge chemical corporations over Americans. And I just have to say, there's nothing that infuriates me more than things like this being snuck into funding bills. They are expecting that Americans are not going to pay attention. They are expecting that Americans are not gonna care about a funding bill that happens every year.
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Chapter 2: How is Big Chemical influencing MAHA's policies?
weed killer that almost everybody has used at some point in their life whose active ingredient, glyphosate, has been linked to cancer in thousands upon thousands of lawsuits. And this is where it really gets sinister. Because a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer drugs, that does cancer research, bought a company whose main product is linked to cancer. All goes in a circle.
Do you see the connection there? Do you see how allegedly it might benefit them for that product to be on the market for Americans not to be able to sue if they do get cancer? Just food for thought. Again, it is sinister. So again, the same company that is in the business of making us healthy is also in the business of making us sick.
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Things like seed oils and additives and dyes and sweeteners, ultra processing, all of the stuff that sneaks into organic and natural foods. And it's not just fear mongering because they actually offer solutions.
If the score isn't great, which a lot of stuff in my pantry was not, Olive shows you better options right away so that you can actually make the swap while you are standing in the grocery aisle.
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Chapter 3: What is Section 453 and why is it controversial?
And also, relevant as we talk about lobbyists, I want you to know that Olive is completely independent. Brands cannot pay to look healthier, which you cannot say about other apps out there. And they are also investing in independent lab testing to keep raising the bar, including testing baby and toddler foods for contaminants.
So if you want one simple February reset, scan your pantry once and you will never shop the same way again. I can tell you from experience. So download Olive in the app store today and my listeners will get an exclusive seven day free trial. Again, download Olive in the app store today. So So back to the point, while this provision being removed was a victory for Maha, the work is not over yet.
And I actually think that the work has just gotten tougher for us because I think we have now poked the bear. Big Chemical has seen Americans be outraged, be speaking out about this. And so in many ways that has caused the EPA and Big Chemical to tighten their grip on the Maha movement. And a new Substack piece dove into all of this.
This article is titled, Pesticide Industry Infiltrates Maha to Derail Reforms. CropLife America, the lobby group for Bayer and Sunjeta, has all but wiped out any prospect for pesticide health and safety reforms. What a black pill for this lovely Thursday afternoon. The author, Lee Fang, wrote, quote, we are going to ban the worst agricultural chemicals.
We are going to remove conflicts of interest from top farm and food safety agencies. And he's talking about something that Kennedy pledged on the campaign trail and when he was appointed. He goes on and he says, those promises have since fallen by the wayside.
The administration has reapproved the cancer-causing weed killer, dicamba, deleted references to pesticides from its Make America Healthy Again action plan, and delayed enforcement of limits on so-called forever chemicals in drinking water.
There has been no meaningful action on controversial pesticides Kennedy previously warned about, including neonicotinoids, hopefully I'm saying that correctly, and cesticides and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, which he once called one of the likely culprits in America's chronic disease epidemic. I mean, they literally deleted references to this in the Maha action plan.
Lee Fang goes on and says, meanwhile, representatives of pesticide and chemical companies have flooded into key regulatory roles. Former lobbyists Douglas Stroutman, Nancy Beck, Lynn Ann Deklova, hopefully I'm saying that correctly, Scott Hutchins, Kelsey Barnes, and Kyle Kunkler now occupy senior positions overseeing agriculture and environmental policy.
And guys, these lobbyists and people in the administration are now working overtime to get these liability shield laws passed at any level they can. They are literally going state by state to try to get these shield laws passed. And in some states like North Dakota and Georgia, they have already been successful. Today on her stories, Alex Clark, again, we watched a clip from her podcast earlier.
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