Food Industry Funds Social Media Influencer Campaign to Counter 'Make America Healthy Again' Agenda, Investigation Finds
An investigation by the Guardian and Documented found major US food and agriculture companies are funding social media influencers to push back against elements of the 'Make America Healthy Again' movement associated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Some of the largest food and agriculture corporations in the United States are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to counter elements of the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) platform associated with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a joint investigation by the Guardian and Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project.
The investigation describes the campaign as a response by industry groups to what they see as a threat to their business interests from cross-partisan support in Washington for stricter regulation of pesticides and food additives.
The MAHA Movement
Kennedy's appointment as secretary of health and human services has amplified his campaign against chronic illness in the United States, which he attributes primarily to processed foods, food dyes, exposure to certain chemicals, and farming practices, along with claims about vaccine safety that public health experts have disputed.
The MAHA movement combines longstanding mainstream concerns about food and farm safety with a range of other claims, some of which critics have characterized as conspiracy theories relating to medicine and food safety more broadly.
A MAHA-related "summit" in Washington this week is expected to feature Vice President JD Vance and several members of the Trump administration's cabinet, according to the report.
The companies funding the influencer campaigns were not named in the available excerpt.
Sources
- A ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maga – with social media influencers — The Guardian — Business
EGazette summarizes reporting from multiple sources; follow the links for the originals.
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