""glyphosate-based herbicides ... play a critical role in maintaining America's agricultural advantage by enabling farmers to efficiently and cost-effectively produce food and livestock feed.""
""would critically jeopardize agricultural productivity.""
""This executive order reads like it was drafted in a chemical company boardroom," food activist and Robert F. Kennedy-supporter Vani Hari said. "Calling it 'national defense' while expanding protections for toxic products is a dangerous misdirection. Real national security is protecting American families, farmers, and children.""
""The President is making a mockery of the very voters who put his administration into office," said Kelly Ryerson, another MAHA activist who calls herself the "Glyphosate Girl.""
The executive order directs increased production of phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, asserting those herbicides are critical to maintaining America's agricultural advantage by enabling efficient, cost-effective food and feed production. The order claims that lessening access to herbicides that include glyphosate would critically jeopardize agricultural productivity. The word "health" appears only in the context of preserving a strong food supply, with no discussion of scientific studies linking glyphosate to increased cancer risks. Activists in the Make America Healthy Again coalition expressed feelings of betrayal and criticized the order as protecting toxic products and mocking voters.
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