An executive order approved by Donald Trump has undermined RFK Jr.'s support, with Make America Healthy Again supporters turning on the Health Secretary.
Jillian Michaels, a health and wellness expert who previously said RFK Jr sincerely "wants to make America healthy again," has turned on the Health Secretary after he backed Trump's order that will see glyphosate, a controversial chemical used in weed killer, allowed for use in the food supply.
"Donald Trump’s executive order puts America first where it matters most—our defense readiness and our food supply," RFK Jr. had said. "We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it."
Health experts and former advocates for RFK Jr.'s plan for American fitness have since criticized the Trump administration. Michaels, speaking to The Hill, said, "This is actually devastating; it is not a conspiracy theory that glyphosate is linked to cancer.
"There are hundreds of studies that have illustrated now it increases risk significantly for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
"We also know through whistleblowers and numerous lawsuits, of which there have been over 170,000, that the chemical company knew this and tried to bury the information, tried to go after the independent researchers, created ghost studies to try to tell a different story and essentially, they now have to pay $7.25 billion the makers of glyphosate to the victims.
"I don’t buy that we we have a bevy of ultra processed crops, corn, soy, wheat; there’s unfortunately no shortage, which of course has to do with hundreds of billions in the subsidy dollars, and I think that somebody powerful called up someone else powerful after paying out $7.25 billion and essentially saying this is an existential threat we need to call in this favor, and they did and it’s exceptionally upsetting.
"This doesn’t just affect farmers, this is omnipresent. It’s you, they would probably find it in yours and my urine right now if they tested for it."
Fellow industry insiders aired their concerns over glyphosate being used in food production. Kelly Horton, senior vice president of public policy and government relations at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, said, "It’s an exciting time where nutrition has become a real national dialogue, but at the same time, the resources to be able to do that and to effect the changes we want to see are being pulled out from underneath us."