Ilana Berger at MMFA:
Many right-wing and MAHA media figures have expressed shock and disappointment at the Trump administration’s embrace of glyphosate — the active ingredient in the weed-killer Roundup — but some have defended his characterization of the herbicide as essential to national security and the country's food system. During the 2024 campaign cycle, the MAHA coalition became a key component of President Donald Trump’s base. Many promises were made to win over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA supporters on the campaign trail, including Trump’s claim that “we’re going to get toxic chemicals out of our environment, and we're going to get them out of our food supply.”
But the Trump administration’s relationship with the agrochemical industry and its multipronged effort to protect industry giant Bayer have angered and mobilized key MAHA figures. Trump issued an executive order in February declaring glyphosate critical to national security, and in March the administration filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to rule in favor of Roundup developer Monsanto in the much-anticipated case Monsanto vs. Durnell. Some of the MAHA figures have organized a rally for April 27, when the Supreme Court is set to hear the case. If the court rules in favor of Bayer (which acquired Monsanto in 2018), it could potentially protect the chemical industry by allowing companies to “escape liability simply because the EPA approved their labels at some point in the past, even if the company concealed how harmful their pesticides were to people.”
Ahead of the MAHA SCOTUS rally in the Monsanto v. Durnell case’s oral arguments, right-wing content creators have expressed disappointment over the Trump Regime’s embrace of glyphosate.
