The administration's move is "not just stupid, it's evil", said Kyla Bennett, science director with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer), and a former EPA attorney.
"Cutting funding into research on how these toxic chemicals get into our food will doom us to decades or even hundreds of years more of exposure," Bennett said…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/trump-pfas-research-funding-farms
"Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields," Newson commented on the images. "Trump calls me 'Newscum' – but he's the real scum."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/federal-agents-raid-farms-california
Mozaffarian called the choice to cut the Farm to School Grant "a bizarre decision that goes completely against the goals to make America healthy again".
Nestle believes that misalignment between promise and practice is purposeful. The Trump administration and Maha movement have "hijacked the food movement in order to use it as publicity for the kind of cuts that are being made", she said. It's also being used to "forward an agenda which is exactly the opposite of what you would hope" – one that's focused more on cutting programs than reforming industry.
Nestle says the administration's calls to end subsidies for "junk food" with Snap are disingenuous, and just a guise for cutting the program altogether. "The business about taking sodas out of Snap is a cover for cutting Snap benefits," she said. The current Republican budget bill, which Trump signed into law last week, proposes a 20% cut to the program.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/08/rfk-jr-junk-food
