Public Health

Kelvey Vander Hart | 11.21.2024 7:00 AM

The online, health-focused "crunchy" community has always had an antigovernment streak. That makes sense, as it consists of trad wives who want legal raw milk, health nuts who hate chemicals and junk food, moms who are concerned about vaccines, hippies who want to use natural products, and other groups that tend to go against the status quo. Personal responsibility to make choices that benefit both people and the planet has often been the community link between wildly different accounts and motivations.

And then came Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. Suddenly, many of the same crunchy influencers who championed personal responsibility and making informed choices for their families began to applaud the federal government making choices for all American families.

As the nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), RFK Jr. has an opportunity to leverage the federal government's power to restrict things he believes are making Americans sick, such as seed oils, junk food, vaccines, chemicals, and more. A large portion of the crunchy community would support him in doing so. Eryn Carroll, a health-minded influencer, applauded MAHA, suggesting that the federal government should work to ban GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, and fluoride in tap water. "Imagine a health system led by someone who truly prioritizes our well-being over corporate interests,"........

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