The Political Economy Of Pesticides: How To Subsidize A Poison – OpEd

By Timothy Terrell 

The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement is well-known for its skepticism of chemical additives in foods, and of large-scale pesticide-intensive agriculture. With environmentalist and current US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy now leading the movement, many of the long-held concerns of environmentalists about toxins and food quality have found a curious place in the Trump administration. Recent political contests over pesticides have redrawn some of the battle lines.