Project 2025 dietary rollbacks would limit fight against ultra-processed foods
Source: The Guardian
Tue 15 Oct 2024 08.00 EDT
When Project 2025 began making headlines this summer, it was largely for the ways the conservative wish list of policies for a future Trump administration would restructure the entire federal bureaucracy, deepen abortion restrictions and eliminate the Department of Education.
But the document a proposed mandate for the next Republican president authored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank also outlines steps that would radically transform food and farming, curtailing recent progress to address the excess of ultra-processed foods in the United States. Among those: weakening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), ending policies that consider the effects of climate change and eliminating the US dietary guidelines.
This is a deregulatory agenda, said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food policy at New York University. And what we know historically from deregulation is that its really bad for consumers, its bad for workers, its bad for the environment.
Project 2025 proposes changes to the countrys food assistance programs, like Snap and the Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program (Wic), that Nestle believes are intended to dismantle such programs. It also calls for ending support for school meals. But one of the most notable of its proposals is calling on the next Republican president to eliminate or reform the dietary guidelines. Those guidelines form the basis for all federal food policies, from school meals to Snap, Wic and other programs.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/project-2025-food-farming-policies
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,329 posts)I've been reading a little about ultra-processed foods, and I'm convinced that UPFs are complicit in all kinds of diseases and conditions that people are getting these days.
maxsolomon
(34,763 posts)project 2025 proposes rolling back federal guidelines AGAINST ultra-processed foods in SNAP & WIC benefits.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,329 posts)Thank you for correcting me.
Marthe48
(18,618 posts)Remind me -- Who has the death panels?