Why are Democrats surrendering the issue of healthy food? | Tim Ryan and Justin Talbot Zorn

Under RFK Jr and the Maha movement, Republicans have claimed the mantle – but their actions are full of contradictions On 25 February, in her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing, Casey Means, Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, called on the US government to address key drivers of chronic disease, including “ultraprocessed foods, industrial chemical exposure” and other factors. The same month, in a provocative Super Bowl ad for the federal government’s RealFood.gov site...

By Tim Ryan and Justin Talbot Zorn