Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
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A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy pollsters and ‘anti-woke’ influencers

A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy pollsters and ‘anti-woke’ influencers

Major US soft-drink and snack-food corporations are waging a coordinated campaign that aims to pit Donald Trump’s Maga faithful against Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again movement, a Guardian investigation in partnership with environmental watchdog Fieldnotes has found. Their goal is to stymie the Maha-led effort to curb Americans’ consumption of soda and ultra-processed foods.

To carry out the plan, the companies have turned to a partially formalized network of for-hire pollsters, strategists and political financiers with deep ties to the national Republican party – several of whom have taken steps that obscure their connection to the effort and to one another. In the process, the industry has also been aided less directly by a loose coalition of free-market ideologues who have previously worked to advance Trump’s deregulatory agenda.

  • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    They’re trying to stop MAHA…

    Yay!

    …from doing the only beneficial tasks they had planned

    Oh. Of course.

    • credo@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 days ago

      This is shitheads being strategically shittier. It’s not like they are going after RFK Jr directly, or pointing out any of his shitty ideas.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I can remember how all the regressive dumbasses reacted to Michelle Obama suggesting kids exercise and eat better. Or the - gasp - planting of a garden at the WH. I mean, can you even imagine? Gardening is SO ELITE!

    As well as the collective freakout over Bloomberg talking about curtailing the sale of bucket-sized soda portions. Failin’ Palin had a Big Gulp to “own the libs”. 🙄 I mean, sure, let’s normalize drinking 32 ounces (plus) of sugar water. For freedom! Straight outta Idiocracy.

    So when it comes to doing all the worst of things for “freedom”, I can easily see the RWAs opting for an “all of the above” option. Even if RFK’s stopped clock is right about things like soda and ultraprocessed foods, they’ll reject that, calling it “woke” or whatever dumbfuck nonsense baby-talk they use, but willingly embrace things such as anti-vaccine and pro-Ivermectin quackery like the jagoffs that we all know them to be…