Maha movement helps to kill bill seeking US food-safety rollbacks

Public health advocates praise rewrite of legislation backed by big-food influence operation AFIT

A bipartisan group of public health advocates have defeated a proposal to kill state food safety laws that was pushed by what some critics have called a faux Maha" big-food influence operation.

The industry-funded group, called Americans for Ingredient Transparency (AFIT), suggests it is part of a grassroots Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement, but opponents say it is waging a campaign on behalf of big food companies that Maha figures typically criticizes - ConAgra, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Hormel, and Nestle among other food giants.