Trump has a GLP-1 deal and use will be expanded. It looks to be a win for health in America, but Zepbound and Wegovy cannot be the long term solution to the obesity epidemic. That can only come through curing our sick food environment. Read or listen to eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/trumps-glp...!

#GLP-1 drugs are miracle workers but the best solution to #obesity and overweight and reducing their damage to our health? Curing our sick food environment.
Heavy government regulation is required to protect Americans from corporations who have been allowed to harm our health for their profits.

1/ Today, the president announced he’s withholding funds for SNAP until the shutdown ends—not because the money isn’t there, but to use people’s empty stomachs as leverage.

#PEZ (for kids!) was the only food I found w/ Red Dye No. 3: on the U.S. banned list. #Obama was the last President honored with his likeness on a PEZ dispenser. Wait until Trump finds out! “Forget the Nobel Peace Prize! Make sure I’m on a PEZ dispenser!” eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/die-hard-a...

Caramel coloring is by far the biggest #ArtificialDye by volume. Made with sugar + ammonium, possibly carcinogenic in humans per a 2007 federal toxicology analysis, WHO, and California, but not on #RFKjr hit list. It is huge in Coke, Pepsi, other colas. eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/die-hard-a...

RFK setting the U.S. #DietaryGuidelines?
Uh, dead brain worm, likely eaten; recs raw milk, red meat, #saturatedfat for health; eats “a ton of vitamins”, no unprocessed fruits or veggies; ate so much tuna & perch his blood had 10x mercury limit and caused memory loss. EatingInAmerica.substack.com.

#MAHA helped Trump with RFK, Jr., voters, and influencers. But MAHA has been rebuffed in most goals by #BigFood, America’s biggest lobby, and agricultural interests, as I have reported in EatingInAmerica.substack.com. The TheGuardian.com has a great exposé of how Big Food is controlling food policy.

The new California ultraprocessed food law is a good step forward. It defines UPF while Trump and RFK, Jr. are delaying UPF action. UC scientists have 3 years to name UPFs to be banned from school food. More on this solid plan at eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/the-new-california-ultraprocessed.

Also, SNAP and school lunch cuts will hurt many farmers. With consumer unhappiness a threat, Trump is trying to increase hires of migrant farm workers with work visas in order to keep farm production up and prices from zooming. And farmers will be happy if they can hire more lower-wage migrants.

There is Trump-typical chaos in this, as Trump tries to adjust. Farmers have been buffeted by tariff winds and fleeing migrant workers, as reported in EatingInAmerica.substack.com. Big commodity producers are getting most of Trump’s increases in subsidies this year, while produce farmers struggle.

American farm workers just got slapped. The USDA has killed the Farm Labor Survey, delighting farm operators. This week EatingInAmerica.substack.com discusses how the FLS set farm wages high enough to protect Americans from being replaced by migrant workers accepting less pay.

RFK Jr. says seed oils like canola and soy are “poisoning” Americans and driving obesity. He says we should cook with meat fat instead. The science says otherwise to all this. The real issue is the ultraprocessed food the oils are found in, not the oil itself. What do you think?