The Make America Healthy Again Commission released its Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy on Tuesday with more than 120 initiatives to “advance gold-standard science, realign incentives, increase public awareness, and strengthen private-sector collaboration.”
“This strategy represents the most sweeping reform agenda in modern history—realigning our food and health systems, driving education, and unleashing science to protect America’s children and families,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “We are focusing narrowly on nutrition and metabolic health, food quality, cumulative exposures, gut microbiome, precision agriculture, and mental health.”
“America’s farmers and ranchers are at the heart of the solution..to fight chronic disease and protect future generations,” said Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. “USDA’s upcoming regenerative pilot program will address on-farm resource concerns, while also providing farmers with usable, outcomes-based conservation plans. We will also leverage existing funding from research agencies to produce applied science informing farmer decision-making on regenerative agriculture.”
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Zeldin said they will be working with USDA to advance precision agriculture and ensure the safe use of legal crop protection chemicals. “We are accelerating innovative and vetted crop protection products to enhance an American system of agriculture that is already the best in the world,” said Zeldin.
Listen to opening comments from Secretaries Kennedy and Rollins and Administrator Zeldin below:
MAHA Report on Children's Health (16:44)