E. coli Does Not Care How You Vote – MAHA Needs to Learn That

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Amanda Vicari, a food and agriculture policy communicator, published a piece on LinkedIn today — “MAHA Moved Food Politics to the Right. Now the Right Has to Decide What to Do With It.” — that is worth your time. Her argument, briefly: in remarkably little time, MAHA took questions that used to belong to progressive food activism — ultra-processed foods, chemical exposure, corporate influence over nutrition policy, regenerative agriculture — and moved them to the center of Republican politics. But winning the argument is not the same as settling the policy. The MAHA coalition contains people who want very different things. Some want transparency but oppose mandates. Some want ingredient regulation; others see that as exactly the administrative power conservatives spent decades trying to constrain. Some rally against glyphosate while the administration treats it as essential to food security. As she puts it, the right now has to decide: “Does healthier food require more federal regulation or less?” It is a fair question, and on most of the issues she raises — dyes, seed oils, ultra-processed food definitions, dietary guidelines — reasonable people can and will disagree about the pro