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The 2026 midterms are in sharp focus as the Trump administration seeks to shore up voter support within the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) camp that boosted Donald Trump into his 2024 election win. The recent US Supreme Court ruling in Monsanto v. Durnell applied federal law to block state tort suits for illness caused by glyphosate. … Read more
The MAHA movement to “Make America Healthy Again” has certainly sparked political controversy. Yet there is no question that almost all Americans agree they want their families and their nation to achieve better health outcomes. That underlying unity continues to fuel important bipartisan alliances, especially at the grassroots level. In my new book, I explain … Read more
Remember the Cleveland Clinic Flu Shot Study? You don’t have to. I remembered it for you. 53,000 employees, of whom nearly 44,000 got the flu shot? Cleveland Clinic. World-renowned. They tracked their employees and found that the flu shot increased their odds of getting the flu by almost 30%. Lived up to its name. What’s … Read more
TL/DR Synopsis: Back in 1934, there was money to be made in simple vitamins because it was new technology in a new market, and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., an American subsidiary of a European company, acquired the patent rights to synthesize the very first vitamin manufactured-from-scratch in a factory. It was Vitamin C, first sold in … Read more
My first ever order of zinc, as a separate nutritional supplement, was in April 2020. At that time, news sites were overflowing with COVID gloom & doom, much of which made no logical sense at all, so I began serious research, which led me to conclude that we needed to supplement our diets with much … Read more
Part 2 of a new health and wellness series*. The role of brass in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 can be viewed as a metaphor for magnesium’s role in our bodies. His No. 8 is kicked off with a monster E-flat major chord from the brass organ pipes, followed by a continuing brass presence supporting the … Read more
For many members of the U.S. House of Representatives and MAHA supporters, April 30, 2026, was a big day: In a decisive victory (224 – 200), the House passed a new version of the Farm Bill that stripped it of a liability shield for companies producing herbicides like glyphosate. MAHA leaders, many of whom gathered … Read more
On Monday, April 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Monsanto Company v Durnell case, which centers on whether or not the plaintiff’s cancer was due to Monsanto’s failure to warn of its product’s dangers. A protest called “The People v Poison” has been organized beginning at 9:00 a.m. to oppose granting legal immunity … Read more
I invite my readers to purchase my new book, The Coming Food Crisis: How Corporations, Activists, and Climate Alarmists Are Waging War on Farmers. The book describes the steadily increasing consolidation of farming and food production into the market-controlling hands of the largest corporations in the world, and the threats to human health and liberties this presents. … Read more
Free Choice vs Poor Health on the Public Dime Five plaintiffs who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits have sued the US Department of Agriculture, alleging it violated the law by allowing states to restrict access to sugary drinks, candy, and other products deemed unhealthy. The complaint alleges that the Trump administration lacked authority … Read more
Mississippi has outlawed lab-grown dairy products, including fake milk. The passage of legislation blocking corporate efforts to displace dairy farmers and their cows with gleaming vats and factories marks not only the impact of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement but also consumer pushback against corporate domination of food supplies for profit. Fake milk … Read more
Filmmaker Tells the Story of a People’s Movement to Reclaim their Government and their Health In his brilliant new documentary, filmmaker Jeff Hays tells the story of the MAHA movement and exposes the regulatory capture of our public health agencies that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran for president to warn us about. The Official MAHA … Read more
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy has been kind enough to allow us to share its content for more than a decade when it interests us. We may not always agree, but that is not a barrier to sharing it. The point is to debate and to occasionally bend conservatarian light to shine on … Read more
It is difficult to imagine that the mighty United States could face threats to its seemingly abundant supply of grocery store and restaurant offerings. America has led the world in creating the modern industrial food system (known as “the Green Revolution”) and remains the world’s top food-exporting nation. Yet economic and logistical fractures have become … Read more
How Corporations, Activists, and Climate Alarmists Are Waging War on Farmers My first book, Small Farm Republic, argued that focusing on environmental carcinogens and other toxins was a wiser policy strategy than climate change policies that often spewed chemical pollution in renewables manufacturing geared toward the pursuit of carbon dioxide. I asserted that policies supporting … Read more
The political world is in a tizzy over alleged backpedaling on toxic food dyes by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), compounded by President Donald Trump’s executive order supporting the domestic production of glyphosate. Beneath the kerfuffle are nuanced realities that elude most non-farmers (or are ignored by those with axes to grind). The sky … Read more
In this installment of the Elsa Kurt Show, we press into why chronic disease grows as technology advances and how misaligned incentives in food, insurance, and medicine keep people sick. Jeff Hays shares what MAHA Uncensored uncovers, from SSRIs and PBMs to school lunch reform and simple habits that rebuild real health. More Elsa Kurt … Read more
Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) promoting and protecting domestic glyphosate production spurred widespread backlash, but HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s support of the measure created far more. As an organic beef farmer and MAHA supporter, here’s why I support Secretary Kennedy’s position. I’ve never used a drop of glyphosate (aka Roundup) in my twenty-five … Read more
Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy, Help Is on the Way. Recent laboratory tests of military meals, and Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), revealed high levels of pesticides, heavy metals, and livestock drug residues within the food. America’s troops deserve better. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making sure that happens. The … Read more
Note: The featured image is just a royalty-free image of a box of candy and in no way represents the context of the title or any claim by Florida or anyone else. A Florida report on 46 popular candy products found unacceptable levels of arsenic in 28 of them. The state has taken the Make … Read more