The Make America Healthy Again initiative was released on September 9, quietly, to the USDA website. I have linked it below in case anyone is interested in reading the entire document.
There are numerous initiatives from food labeling, to autism studies, to school lunches and SNAP program initiatives, targeted toward making Americans healthier. Most everything makes sense, such as aligning the various agencies that gather, crunch and track data, so scientists have all the information they need on specific topics (for example, autism), in the same place.
There's a food freedom initiative, in which HHS will seek to deregulate producer-to-consumer sales of food, which boosts the sale of home-made and home-grown foods. There is a lot of misunderstanding about these laws, but some States have passed food freedom laws to great effect. It boosts small local economies and helps people who live in poverty as well, without any measureable effect on food safety statistics. The law would still regulate food sales where there's a middle-man who handles the food in any way. For example, a supermarket could not buy unregulated cheese made in someone's home and sell it on their shelves. A restaurant couldn't buy the cheese and use it in their menu. The key is, direct to consumer.
Unfortunately, the planned idea to use Medicaid recipient data to study autism is there. There are several ethical and scientific problems with this. Medicaid recipients did not consent to be used for science. That's an ethical issue. But also, using primarily data gathered from impoverished Americans could skew the dataset. Using a single demographic for most of your study could skew your results.
There is so much more in the document, and I invite you to go to the website and read it below.
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