Conservative ‘wish list’ of policies for a future Trump administration goes so far as transforming food and farming
When Project 2025 began making headlines this summer, it was largely for the ways the conservative “wish list” of policies for a future Trump administration would restructure the entire federal bureaucracy, deepen abortion restrictions and eliminate the Department of Education.
But the document – a proposed mandate for the next Republican president authored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank – also outlines steps that would radically transform food and farming, curtailing recent progress to address the excess of ultra-processed foods in the United States. Among those: weakening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), ending policies that consider the effects of climate change – and eliminating the US dietary guidelines.
“This is a deregulatory agenda,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food policy at New York University. “And what we know historically from deregulation is that it’s really bad for consumers, it’s bad for workers, it’s bad for the environment.”
If Project 2025 was promoted by a villain faction in fiction it would be dismissed as unrealistic.
“Surely they don’t want to undo every single positive aspect of society, that would be ridiculous.”
Seriously. It’s like a generic thriller that wouldn’t sell outside of airports because the trope is so apparent and absurd.
Like the US military at first contact. Which is exactly what these dick waggers would do.
Edit: or that some beefcake AmeriChad will deus ex machina the world from climate change with swagger, which seems to be exactly what they think.
So, Eric Adams?