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\u201cI think there\u2019s been a large misconception in the Republican Party, thinking that the constituents don\u2019t really care about these issues,\u201d Kelly Ryerson, one of the organizers of the petition, told Grist. \u201cA key part\u201d of the MAHA agenda, Ryerson continued, \u201cis removing corporate interests from our regulators.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anything, the EPA is significantly worse off in this administration than it was during the Biden administration,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd that is something that really frustrates tons and tons of voters that came along with this promise.\u201d<\/p>\n
The coalition\u2019s ire, however, seems to be only aimed at Zeldin (who recently teased<\/a> his own forthcoming MAHA agenda). Ryerson has nothing but praise for other leaders in the administration\u2014Kennedy, Rollins, and the president himself. Last Wednesday, Kennedy and Rollins announced a pilot program<\/a> that will direct $700 million toward supporting regenerative agriculture, which Ryerson cited as one example of the administration\u2019s commitment to cleaning up the nation\u2019s food system.<\/p>\n All the while, the administration\u2019s support for industrial farms, which are the major users of toxic pesticides, has far outweighed its support for farms that practice more planet-friendly methods. Ryerson freely admits this; she said that factory farming \u201chas dominated agriculture, and we all know it\u2019s a really inconvenient fact, but we all know that it\u2019s killed our soil.\u201d Still, she said, the problem lies with the EPA.<\/p>\n \u201cThe MAHA movement,\u201d Ryerson continued, \u201cwe would love to see a complete overhaul of our ag system that is just spending this ridiculously obscene amount of money on subsidies for products that aren\u2019t even really food for us at all.\u201d<\/p>\n And yet, Trump shows no signs of abandoning his billion-dollar farm bailout playbook\u2014propping up the very pesticide-sustaining system that MAHA is rallying against.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n