From the inside of the room, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testaled, his audience fans opened their shouting and hoarse support. Even the five -minute bath room rest was stood by the audience's standing. The cheers of "we love you, Bobby!" Farly exceeded the healthy T -shirt wearing the United States and confirmed a small hat.

Maha's loyal people are excited. If it is confirmed, RFK Jr. will supervise an institution that manages nearly $ 2 trillion and has the right to reshape public health with its image. "He just represented the opposite of all these institutions," 34 -year -old Brandon Matlack worked in Kennedy's presidential campaign, and he told me on Wednesday. When he waited for more than 150 people to wind the staircase, we talked, and they all wanted to sit at the hearing. Many of them were downgraded to the overflow room.

Of course, Matlack and other RFK Jr. fans may be disappointed. Whether Kennedy will really be recognized as the Minister of Health is still in the air. At the hearing on Thursday, Kennedy faced the difficult problem of Bill Cassidy, a Republican Senator in Louisiana. Their voting can determine whether Kennedy is confirmed. Their voting may be decisive, so There are few noisy cheers. However, the realization of RFK Jr.'s vision of medical care in the United States may not depend on his confirmation. The Maha Movement has turned the problem of chronic diseases into such a powerful political talk point, so that people like Matlack are willing to travel from Pennsylvania to Washington Special Economic Zone to support Kennedy. Politicians from all over the country heard that they claimed to be "Maha Mom" ​​(maybe some fathers) urged them to reform. They started to listen.

Kennedy is the most famous is an anti -vaccist activist to spread conspiracy theories. Some Maha supporters share his strange thoughts, but the movement itself mainly focuses on improving the diet of the United States and its health problems. Some ways Maha want to solve, such as applying pressure to food companies without using seed oil, which is not very scientific; others do have some research. Considering artificial food dyes, this is a major Maha rally crying. A variety of food dyes have been displayed in animal research. Although candy fanatics may not die in the red dye of the product, additives are effectively prohibited in the EU. (Kennedy claims that food dyes are promoting the expectations of the United States. There is no evidence that the food dye is linked to the life expectancy of human expectations, although a study does indicate that they shorten the life of fruit flies.)

Until recently, concerns about food additives (such as artificial dyes) are still the field of Democrats. In 2023, California became the first state in the country to prohibit certain food additives: red dyes 3, potassium bromide, bromide oil and propyate. But now in Donald Trump countries (including West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky), the grain increase ban. Some efforts, such as "Make Arkansas' Health" again, are to formulate clear efforts to formulate the Kennedy agenda.

In other states, more things School house rock It is happening: In the danger of food composition, Americans are harassing Americans, and then they go to legislators for changes. Eric Brooks, Republican councilor of West Virginia, told me that he decided to copy the Food Adding Act in California after being raised by voters. "I said, Well, I usually don’t look west, especially the policy ideas to California, and honestly with you"He told me." But once I finish the research, I see the effectiveness of this problem, I said, I said, I said, OKEssence "Although his bill was proposed for the first time in January 2024, he did not advance forward at the last legislature, because in his words," more fishes to be fried ", Brooks hopes to come from the Maha sports. National interests will inspire West Virginia.

Similarly, other red countries have not yet been included in the law's efforts to follow California's leadership, but the facts that have paid these bills completely show that Republicans' enthusiasm for this topic. Mother Maha may be enough to promote the work of the Minister of Health. A Republican, Indiana Senator Jim Banks, told Kennedy on Thursday that he plans to vote to confirm him because he will "give me a nose in this movement." Republicans are not only proposed a bill for food additives; they also occupy other MAHA priorities in Kennedy. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, recently asked the federal government to allow the state government to allow food stamp receivers to use their welfare to purchase junk food-Kennedy repeatedly appealed.

In the past two days, senators seemed to be shocked by the degree of loyalty after Kennedy. A derogatory person calls him a prophet. The Maha believer I talked with me clearly stated that they wanted a small RFK Jr. and only RFK JR. Vani Hari is an influencer of the "Food Babe" on Instagram. He told me that if Kennedy is not confirmed, "it will be like you have never seen before you have seen it. Uprising like that "

But at this point, even if there is no Kennedy, the movement seems to continue. On Wednesday, the Heritage Foundation hosted the press with the MAHA agent. Heritage is the home of intellectuals of modern conservative movements, and now praise food dyes.这是十年前警告的同一亲企业智囊团，如果FDA禁止部分氢化油，有助于心脏病发作的反式脂肪，该机构“将取消选择”，“不尊重”美国人的自治权，并且Install "attack on diet decision".

Republicans are usually the fortress of the food industry to resist the policy that may damage its bottom line. Today, Democrats and Republicans in Washington seem to be more consistent than ever. "When you have members on both sides of the aisle, they are very interested in understanding the food in their food, and it does change." I. After all, even though Bernie Sanders repeatedly reviewed Kennedy at the confirmation hearing this week, his support for the Maha movement. "I agree with your opinion," Sanders said to Kennedy on Thursday that the United States needs "a revolution in the essence of food." At the same hearing, Casidi said he was struggling with Kennedy's campaign because of deep differences in vaccine policies, but in "super -processed food, obesity, obesity, we are simpatico" Essence We are completely consistent. "

Although Maha indicates that he is a unified information, the real test will be attributed to the brass nail of any political movement: through actual legislation. The willing legislators, especially those who have the tendency of a business, are the desire to hinder the status quo. Politicians have proved to oppose super -processing food. In this sense, Maha is winning. However, the policy victory may still have a way to go.