Reposted from: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5351977-making-america-healthy-begins-with-farmers/
In January 2019, at the age of 36, I was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Amid all of the fear and worry over my health and my future, my biggest question was, “why did this happen?”
Now, President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again Commission has been established to uncover the causes of the epidemic of chronic disease in our nation’s young people, particularly children, and to do something about it.
The MAHA Commission’s assessment report marks a historic recognition of a crisis decades in the making: The American diet, shaped by a highly consolidated food system dominated by a handful of corporations, is fueling a chronic-disease crisis. Crucially, the report emphasizes that American farmers must be at the center of the nation’s health. As the sixth-generation on my own family’s farm, I couldn’t agree more.
Read Farm Action President Angela Huffman’s full op-ed on The Hill’s website.
