The Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment (MAHA Report) marks a historic recognition of a crisis decades in the making: The American diet, shaped by a consolidated food system dominated by a handful of corporations, is fueling a chronic disease crisis. Crucially, it emphasizes that American farmers must be central to improving national health.
To do so, we must confront the current system in which the profits of foreign-owned conglomerates are routinely prioritized over the interests of American farmers and families. That goal cannot be met without shifting power away from corporate middlemen and toward the people who grow nutritious food.
Farm Action and Farm Action Fund set forth policy recommendations in response to the MAHA Report, focusing on centering farmers in the solutions for improving our nation’s health. Transforming the food system is a long-term effort, but meaningful progress is possible right now.
