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Americans are paying attention to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new, health-minded food pyramid that recommends nutrient-dense, whole foods, including meat proteins and full-fat dairy. Now it’s incumbent on every state to make it as easy as possible to buy the real foods that HHS and its sub-agencies recommend, and to enhance ‘food liberty’ … Read more
Competition for scarce water in dry regions has a long and sometimes violent history. Washington state has been the scene of a legal battle between a cattle-ranching family and state regulators over the family’s use of water in the dry eastern region of the Evergreen State. Tensions have escalated in tandem with the state’s enforcement … Read more
It’s not only President Donald Trump who is celebrating a one-year anniversary today, January 20. The nascent Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement is now celebrating its first birthday as the driving force of the Health and Human Services department. This collaboration between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the president has been a significant … Read more
The long-awaited revisions to the iconic US food pyramid, now called the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), were announced yesterday (Jan. 7) by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was also on hand to showcase her agency’s support for the new recommendations, which many have … Read more
Hillary Clinton defied a congressional subpoena on January 14 when she refused to appear before the House Oversight Committee to testify in its Jeffrey Epstein probe. The loud chorus of Americans demanding an investigation of Epstein’s activities has been notably bipartisan, yet the Clintons claim the effort to solicit their testimony is a partisan ploy. … Read more
But Will SCOTUS Intervene on Behalf of Pesticide Manufacturers? On Monday, a massive backlash by MAHA groups scuttled an effort to incorporate an amendment into a congressional spending bill that would have provided legal immunity to chemical manufacturers. This is a big ‘win’ for MAHA – a moment to celebrate months of petitioning Congress to remove Section … Read more
The New Year celebrations today usher in a rare occasion for the nation: It’s the once-in-a-lifetime semiquincentennial, the 250th birthday of America’s formation as an independent country in 1776. The bitter partisan battles that have alienated Americans in ways not witnessed since the Vietnam War are a reminder that few “democratic” experiments have endured this … Read more
More Forbidden Facts From Gavin de Becker’s New Book With the kind permission of author Gavin de Becker and his publisher, Skyhorse Publishing, I am excited and honored to share another chapter of de Becker’s new book, Forbidden Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage from Childhood Vaccines. (The first chapter was published at The MAHA Report on December 17, … Read more
Lawsuit challenges denial of religious exemptions from vaccination Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit advocate for civil liberties and improved health outcomes, filed suit on December 16 against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on behalf of US troops that CHD claims have been unfairly penalized for seeking religious exemptions from vaccination requirements. The suit outlines … Read more
Restricting parental choice in the name of empowerment. Vaccine wars continue to rage across the nation, as Kennedy Derangement Syndrome fuels irrational oppositional actions by state lawmakers. The latest iteration of this knee-jerk resistance is a bevy of Michigan bills proposed in retaliation for the recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that parents … Read more
I spoke at Vermont’s annual Liberty Food Fest on December 12 regarding the benefits of grass-fed over grain-fed beef. To spice it up a bit and keep my audience’s attention, I repurposed a nursery rhyme for the occasion. (I even sang it!) Here are the lyrics of my 2025 version of the classic children’s rhyme: … Read more
With an excerpt from Gavin de Becker’s New Book, Forgotten Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage From Childhood Vaccines. The recent decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to recommend that parents make individual decisions about administering the hepatitis B vaccine series to infants … Read more
New Jersey’s demands for donor lists may have gone too far The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on December 2 in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v Platkin. The court’s forthcoming decision will have far-reaching impacts for pregnancy centers across the country that have experienced fierce attacks in pro-abortion blue states. At issue … Read more
On December 10, in a historic move, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins jointly announced a $700 million pilot program to prevent soil erosion by supporting regenerative farming practices. The MAHA-inspired project, designed to improve domestic production of healthy, fresh meats and produce, has already … Read more
A Wary Eye on the Food Supply In 2006-2007, Americans’ pet cats and dogs began dying mysteriously from kidney failure. The mystery was not long-lived: authorities quickly discerned the cause to be pet foods laced with a chemical called melamine, or some combination of chemicals that likely included melamine and cyanuric acid. This was a … Read more
A Great Awakening from the Great Wokeness The 60s free-love revolution proclaimed love and peace as primary values, and especially embraced freedom from social and economic constraints. Epitomized by Timothy Leary’s call to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” the movement’s essence was countercultural. Six decades later, the pendulum is swinging back. In the 1960s, … Read more
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation on Nov. 20 that would prohibit the use of federal funds or tax credits to support solar panel development on productive farmland. The Protecting American Farmland Act mirrors legislation introduced in the House in May by Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH). The bills effectively reverse tax and funding support for … Read more
Trump’s triumph elevates love of life above war and death. On November 20, President Donald Trump hosted 17 of the 20 Israeli hostages recently released by Hamas at the White House. He campaigned on promises to end the war in Palestine and bring the hostages home, and he has worked tirelessly to do so. The … Read more
“Rallying the culture to be interested in, and then to understand, food differences is perhaps the single most important starting point to ultimately Make America Healthy Again.” — Joel Salatin There is much to be grateful for, starting with the historic partnership between President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and their … Read more
As a farmer, I have long known of the poor quality of ultra-processed foods. Pigs and rats were my best teachers. Raising pigs for the first time more than two decades ago, we sought to save on feed costs by recycling human foods in lieu of grain. Initially, I fed our pigs canned goods beyond … Read more