He also puts him on a collision course with people who are worried that switching to ecological cultivation will significantly make it tough to achieve climate goals. Ecological crops tend to produce lower efficiency on AKR, thus requiring larger areas of cultivation of the same number of crops, which in turn increases carbon dioxide emissions and threatens biological diversity, because more land transforms into agriculture.
On January 14, a group of environmental research. A breakthrough institute He published a letter opposing Kennedy’s confirmation as the secretary of HHS. The letter quotes as a warning that the government of Sri Lanka in April 2021 to switch to ecological agriculture, which led to a decrease in profitability, a rapid augment in food prices and protesting storming the Presidential Palace. The chemical ban on Sri Lanka was encouraged by the environmental activist Vandana Shiva, whose RFK Jr. described As a “hero” and “role model”.
If it is confirmed in the role of HHS, RFK Jr. He will have a narrow impact on agricultural policy, says Emily Bass, deputy director of federal policy, food and agriculture during a breakthrough. But he would be supervised by food and second administration, which enforces food regulation in the USA. “Pesticide residue limits are something that could certainly affect its recipes,” says Bass. And “limiting the use of genetically modified crops or more precisely monitoring their existence in food supplies can create a cool impact on agricultural production.”
Secretary of HHS also supervises the National Institutes of Health, which finances and coordinates medical research in the USA. Bass says that Kennedy may try to direct the agency and FDA to conduct research on pesticides and food additives, which are then used to support court disputes, trying to change the way American farms. This can be the FDA from being a clear regulatory agency for a more activist organization.
His ability to make this from this will probably be narrow by Brooke Rollins, the choice of Trump for the head of USD, who is seen as a very conventional candidate for this role. The Chief of Rollins is Kailee Tkacz Buller, former president and general director of the National Oilseed Processors Association. RFK JR. consistently attacked oil seeds, Writing on x That “seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in food” and directed by supporters to buy hats with the slogan “make the oil tasty”.
During the interrogation in confirmation, Rollins indicated that she was going abroad of the president regarding agriculture, and President Trump does not want to upset farmers and data from the agricultural industry who are his natural voters. “I work for him. I am a member of the office – she said then.
There are already signs that conservative legislators are warming in organic farming. “Historically, we did not arouse much interest than more conservative members of the Congress,” says Gorden Merrick, a senior political and programs manager at Organic Research Farming Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops research on ecological agriculture.
Now, Merrick says he has many more meetings with “very conservative” legislators. “Many of them claimed that they are interested more about organic due to the impact of RFK and America’s growth again.”