Project 2025 dietary rollbacks would limit fight against ultra-processed foods

Conservative wishlist' 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.