Donald Trump’s embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his fringe health theories is triggering a flurry of outreach in Washington and beyond, with powerful ag interests rushing to defend their industries from Kennedy’s threats.

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Banning pesticides — not to mention food additives, seed oils, or ultra-processed foods, as Kennedy has also advocated — would completely upend the existing U.S. food system. And if Trump truly lets Kennedy “go wild” on food and health, as he promised in remarks at a recent campaign rally, it would represent a 180-degree reversal from the agriculture agenda during his first term, which included rolling back pesticide restrictions and other food-related regulations.

Some GOP insiders are privately dubious, citing Kennedy’s long record of false claims about vaccines and other controversial statements.

“I think Republicans are evenly divided about the Make America Healthy Again agenda,” said one Senate GOP aide. “Some people, I think, see RFK as a total hack. … Certain [other] people are like, ‘Well, we think all of FDA is a crock of shit and we think it needs to be reformed from the inside out.’”

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