What’s the Deal With MAHA?

About this episode

The episode discusses the Make America Healthy Again movement and its impact on the American food system with co-hosts of the podcast 'Forked'.

On this episode we are joined by Helena Bottemiller Evich and Theodore Ross, the co-hosts of the podcast “Forked.” Every two weeks, they discuss “the politics and policy that are turning the American food system on its head.” For much of the past year, they have spent a huge amount of time discussing the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, its connections to de-facto leader, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the ways in which he and the movement are shaping policy and practice, from federal and state laws to food companies’ promises to change the formulas of their products. Together we talk through who makes up this movement, what their priorities are, what progress MAHA is making towards its goals — and where it is falling short. Can it make America healthy again?

People in this episode

Guests: Helena Bottemiller Evich, Theodore Ross

Topics covered

• MAHA movement
• American food system
• food policy
• health and nutrition
• politics of food

Keywords

• MAHA
• food policy
• health movement
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• American food system
• nutrition
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Forked, Health and Human Services

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