What the MAHA Movement Gets Wrong About Meat
April 9, 2025 | 1 min to read
During his visit to West Virginia, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, criticizing Governor Patrick Morrisey and suggesting a carnivore diet to help him lose weight. This follows a piece by journalist Nina Teicholz in the *Wall Street Journal*, advocating for meat to be central in upcoming US dietary guidelines. Both perspectives raise questions about the role of meat in America’s health.
Eating more meat won’t make America healthy again.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited West Virginia on March 28 to promote his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda at an event where he cruelly criticized state Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s weight. Kennedy suggested that he would host a public weigh-in and celebration once Morrisey had shed 30 pounds, and Kennedy had an idea about how the governor could do it: “We’re going to put him on a carnivore diet,” Kennedy said.
Weeks before, science journalist and meat enthusiast Nina Teicholz argued in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled “Meat Will Make America Healthy Again” that when the US government updates its dietary guidelines this year, it needs to keep meat firmly at the center of the plate.
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