Rural America

Rural Radio Network TV - Leaders from four of the nation’s largest farm organizations are urging the Trump administration to ensure an upcoming federal report on food and health is grounded in science and not speculation. The statement, issued Tuesday by the American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, and International Fresh Produce Association, comes ahead of the release of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s report—expected to include recommendations on food production practices and their impact on public health.

“Despite the effort of many of our organizations to work with the MAHA Commission to provide factual information about American food production, we have heard disturbing accounts that the commission report may suggest U.S. farmers are harming Americans through their production practices and ‘creating foods that is [sic] destroying our microbiome and bodies—leading directly to our chronic disease crisis,” the groups wrote. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”