Emily Bass
@EmilyJane_Bass
Director of Federal Policy for Food & Ag @TheBTI
Mythbusting MAHA (RFJ Jr's "Make America Healthy Again"), with special attention to Glyphosate (RoundUp weedkiller). By Emily Bass in The Breakthrough Journal @TheBTI open.substack.com/pub/thebreakth…
If you work on agriculture, food systems, carbon removal, methane emissions, animal welfare, deforestation, habitat and biodiversity loss, regenerative solutions, ag biotechnology... this is the webinar for you! One week left to RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Uncomfortable truth that limiting support to “green” fertilizer projects that use exclusively zero-emissions technologies locks African producers into high-cost agricultural inputs, exacerbating problems like low local yields & food insecurity. Great stuff from @RyanAlimento ⤵️
"If the development community is serious about combating hunger by funding fertilizer chemical plants local to SSA, they cannot continue to dogmatically discard petrochemical solutions without giving them serious consideration." Read @RyanAlimento: breakthroughjournal.org/p/sub-saharan-…
SAVE THE DATE: Wed. July 30 @TheBTI webinar on climate and food systems RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… w/ @MikeGrunwald @p_lehner @jennysplitter
Taking stock of recent federal govt workforce reductions, the administration's budget request for EPA/USDA/FDA, and what ongoing staffing cuts mean for the regulatory offices in charge of ag biotech approvals. breakthroughjournal.org/p/presidents-b…
A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?
"[MAHA is] focusing on issues that are absolutely not going to make an iota of difference in public health. The idea that somehow you’re going to be more aggressively regulating based on the best science, while you’re absolutely wholesale cutting scientific research...is a joke."
Michelle Obama was vilified for pushing healthy food and bans on trans fat. Now, many of her opponents have embraced RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again. I asked her top nutrition adviser, Sam Kass, what he makes of this new world. For @politico ⤵️ politico.com/news/magazine/…
RFK Jr's ideas about food & health are often untethered from the evidence, but his spectacular wrongness is an object lesson. Many of us are wrong in less spectacular ways, but for the same reason. It's all about the natural. Gift link. wapo.st/3R9AJUf
New critical look at why MAHA's fear of glyphosate is unfounded, why we should trust regulatory reviews & the unexpected environmental consequences that would stem from bans/restrictions on synthetic inputs. Plus my reactions to the recent MAHA report: thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-ag…
Applications are now open for our third Blog-Building Intensive fellowship! This year we've added an agriculture track. Are you thinking deeply about ag innovation and progress? This might be for you.
RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement continue to point to pesticide use, especially glyphosate, as a leading cause of chronic illness. This is a fundamental misunderstanding. Read @EmilyJane_Bass's mythbusting here: breakthroughjournal.org/p/mythbusting-…
"A blanket cut for all research projects with a climate component won’t just hinder climate progress—it would directly weaken the long-term viability of American farming." @benjamin_goren @danrejto on the risks of Trump’s climate denial for agriculture breakthroughjournal.org/p/stifling-agr…
MAHA's narrow focus on pesticides, seed oils, UPFs is setting the movement's vision for the food system up to fail -- distracting from the chance to invest in real public health interventions, while making healthy foods less affordable and accessible. breakthroughjournal.org/p/mythbusting-…
Over 300 groups, including @TheBTI, call for science, not misinformation, to guide the new MAHA Commission's efforts. Biotech & modern ag practices are important for sustainability. Banning safe, proven tech hurts farmers, consumers, and the environment. soygrowers.com/news-releases/…