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From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, America is in the midst of a food and nutrition policy awakening. Why are diet-related disease rates so high in the U.S.? What are the potential solutions? What does the science say? Award-winning journalist Helena Bottemiller Evich cuts through the noise to help us understand what’s really happening with our food system and our plates.Copyright 2026 Helena Bottemiller Evich Arte Cucina Enogastronomia Igiene e vita sana Politica e governo Scienze politiche
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  • Media roundtable: MAHA meets the midterms with Liz Essley Whyte, Chelsea Cirruzzo, and Marcia Brown

    Media roundtable: MAHA meets the midterms with Liz Essley Whyte, Chelsea Cirruzzo, and Marcia Brown
    Sep 30 2026
    This week, we have a great media roundtable with Marcia Brown, who covers food and agriculture at Politico; Chelsea Cirruzzo, Washington correspondent at STAT; and Liz Essley Whyte, health policy reporter at the Wall Street Journal. All three have broken big MAHA-related stories this year, and heading into the midterms, they’re watching whether this movement still has the political clout it had in 2024.We talk about how each of these reporters ended up covering MAHA, how their outlets approach covering the movement and the Trump administration, and so much more.Highlights: – Why HHS moved $12 million out of the Office of Minority Health as Secretary Kennedy's security costs climbed from $10 million to $17 million – Zach Lahn, the anti-Big Ag Republican running for Iowa governor, and his relationship with Kennedy – Whether MAHA can deliver votes in the midterms after falling short on parts of its national agenda – USDA winding down its cyclospora research during one of the largest outbreaks in recent history, and why "boring" ag research matters – What FDA nominee Heidi Overton, new HHS leadership, and Trump's renewed vaccine push mean – Where MAHA finds a political home next, as some Democrats start courting it – New "real food" stocking standards for SNAP retailers, and what they could mean for where people can use their SNAP benefitsWhere to find Marcia Brown:PoliticoSubstackXBlueskyWhere to find Chelsea Cirruzzo:STATXLinkedInWhere to find Liz Essley Whyte:XBlueskyLinkedInMentioned in this episode:RFK Jr.'s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office (Wall Street Journal)RFK Jr. sees mutual political benefit in MAHA boosting MAGA (STAT)USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations (Politico)Heidi Overton's FDA confirmation hearing (STAT)Stay in touch:Sign up for Helena’s must-read weekly newsletter: Food Fix.Follow American Dish on Instagram and YouTube.Send ideas and feedback to info@foodfix.coCheck out Forked, the food politics podcast Helena co-hosts with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.Credits: This episode was edited by Adrienne Cruz. Original music by David Bottemiller.
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    43 min
  • The decade-long fight to get SNAP online with Nick Green

    The decade-long fight to get SNAP online with Nick Green
    Sep 16 2026

    A long list of investors said no to Nick Green and his co-founders as they were trying to get Thrive Market off the ground. They were rejected so many times they eventually turned to the people who understood the problem they were trying to solve: moms, wellness influencers, and anyone else whose life had been shaped by not having a decent grocery store nearby.

    Twelve years later, their persistence paid off. Thrive Market has grown into a profitable, membership-based online grocer with 1.7 million paying members, hundreds of millions in annual sales, and a reputation as the Whole Foods-meets-Costco of e-commerce. Thrive Market was also an early advocate of piloting SNAP EBT benefits for online grocery purchases, pioneering a decade-long fight to take the policy nationwide.

    Nick Green is a co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market. We talk about that long SNAP fight, what's happening to enrollment right now as millions of households drop off the program, and Nick's case for why the market might be a faster route to change compared to policymaking.

    Highlights:

    • The nearly decade-long fight to get SNAP EBT accepted online
    • What the GOP reconciliation package changes for SNAP beneficiaries and states
    • Why Thrive bans more than 1,000 ingredients
    • How the company thinks about glyphosate, additives, and the murky definition of "ultra-processed."
    • Where Nick thinks the private market can move faster than government on food dye and additive rules

    Where to find Nick Green:

    LinkedIn

    Thrive Market

    Thrive Market on Instagram

    Mentioned in this episode:

    USDA SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot

    Thrive Market becomes first online-only retailer to accept SNAP EBT

    Stay in touch:

    Sign up for Helena’s must-read weekly newsletter: Food Fix.

    Follow American Dish on Instagram and YouTube.

    Send ideas and feedback to info@foodfix.co

    Check out Forked, the food politics podcast Helena co-hosts with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.

    Credits: This episode was edited by Adrienne Cruz. Original music by David Bottemiller.
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    52 min
  • What the cyclospora outbreak tells us about food safety in America, with Bill Marler

    What the cyclospora outbreak tells us about food safety in America, with Bill Marler
    Sep 2 2026

    It's been a rough summer for anyone paying attention to food safety in America. Every few days, it seems, we see new headlines about new recalls and foodborne illness outbreaks. And the media is paying a lot more attention to them on the heels of the big summer cyclospora outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce (which is now the largest foodborne outbreak we’ve had in three decades!) What’s going on? Is this the Trump administration to blame here, or has the system been broken for a long time? And what can we eat?

    To sort through it, we sat down with Bill Marler, widely considered the top food safety plaintiff's attorney in the country (and a thorn in the food industry’s side). Marler is also the founder of Food Safety News (where Helena used to work pre-2013) and is an outspoken advocate for stronger food safety regulations in the U.S.

    Marler's read on the current moment isn't exactly what you'd expect from an outspoken, left-leaning lawyer who spends his days suing food companies: he blames not just this administration, but more so Congress's decades-long unwillingness to stay on top of food safety policy and the funding needed to make real reform a reality.

    Highlights:

    – Roughly 32,000 people (by state counts) have been sickened by cyclospora this summer, and CDC estimates suggest the real number could be dramatically higher

    – Why the CEO of Taylor Farms is calling Bill Marler these days

    – Why cyclospora is so much harder to trace than E. coli or Salmonella

    – Marler connects the dots between the FDA's delayed food traceability rule, agency staffing cuts, and how long it took to identify Taylor Farms as the source

    – Fifty infants were hospitalized for botulism linked to contaminated infant formula last November, and it still hasn't gotten a single congressional hearing

    – Helena and Bill's takes on personal risk: how they each shop for produce

    Where to find Bill Marler:

    Marler Blog

    billmarler.com

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Food Safety News

    Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food (Netflix)

    Stay in touch:

    Sign up for Helena’s must-read weekly newsletter: Food Fix.

    Follow American Dish on Instagram and YouTube.

    Send ideas and feedback to info@foodfix.co

    Check out Forked, the food politics podcast Helena co-hosts with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.

    Credits: This episode was edited by Adrienne Cruz. Original music by David Bottemiller.
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    52 min
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