Is It Safe To Eat Anything Anymore?

There’s metal in our bread. There’s fiberglass in our IV drips. If you’re wondering why this is happening, we broke it all down (and yes, it involves Project 2025).

In 2024, Donald Trump promised to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Like nearly every other promise he made, he lied.

Since retaking office, the FDA has issued over 2,450 recall enforcement reports. That means, on average, there have been roughly 4 recall reports issued every single day since Trump’s term began. If you open the FDA’s recall page right now, there’s a very long list of items that definitely don’t belong in Americans’ food or products: alfalfa sprouts contaminated with E. coli and salmonella, bread with metal, IV drip solution riddled with fiberglass, fruit bars containing foreign matter, lettuce linked to a massive cyclospora outbreak, and so, so many more.

You see, Trump and RFK Jr. – the same buffoons who came into office promising to “make America healthy again” – DOGE’d the Department of Health and Human Services in 2025. They gutted our federal health apparatus and fired many of the people whose entire job is to keep dangerous products off your dinner table.

Since 2025, the FDA has fired more than 3,000 of its own employees. This has decimated much of its food-safety infrastructure, including scientists, inspectors, and other personnel supporting the inspection and recall process. For all those who say they support downsizing the government without any thought of the consequences? Here’s your answer.

The work of guaranteeing food safety is a giant, complicated system. It requires laboratories capable of identifying pathogens, inspectors who know what a contaminated facility looks like, epidemiologists capable of connecting seemingly unrelated illnesses across the country, and so many more moving parts.

In other words, it requires experts. Experts that are few and far between, and who Trump, DOGE, and MAGA cast aside without so much as a second thought for your health, well-being, or safety.

Though, when you think about who Trump put in charge of HHS, it starts to make a bit more sense.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a physician, nor a scientist, nor does he have any other qualifying credentials other than an unholy bargain with Trump in 2024 to end his presidential campaign and endorse him in return for dominion over America’s healthcare regime.

To refresh your memories, this is the same RFK who has promoted thoroughly discredited claims that vaccines cause autism (as does Tylenol, apparently?) for years. He now has the power to institutionalize his crackpot conspiracies by removing vaccine recommendations and to promote his lunacy behind the seal of the department tasked with keeping America healthy.

Since assuming his role, RFK Jr. has warned Americans about the great dangers of fluoride in our water making kids gay and posted videos manhandling snakes. All the while, he ignores the significant increase in Measles cases, cyclospora outbreaks, and daily FDA recalls.

The Department of Health and Human Services doesn’t exist to impose personal preference on Americans’ food choices, or to film a cooking show, or to tell Americans to “proteinmaxx.”

It’s there to make Americans healthy by making sure the things Americans consume are safe.

At the bare minimum, that means quickly identifying contaminated drugs, regularly inspecting facilities, and tracing outbreaks. All of which require a robust, staffed, and functioning government – something we’re sorely lacking as a direct result of Trump’s DOGE obsession.

To understand just how broken our food regulation system has become, think back no further than this summer, when we all collectively swore off iceberg lettuce because of a fear of getting cyclospora and having explosive diarrhea for days or weeks. It’s been decades since we had such a universal fear of food, and that’s precisely because the FDA couldn’t tell us with any degree of certainty which sources were safe, which weren’t, and what to do next. When a crisis hit, they weren’t so much as found flat-footed as entirely on their ass. At our expense.

In a positively groundbreaking discovery, it turns out that a government filled with career civil servants – those whose only interest is the health and well-being of all Americans regardless of which party is in power – works far better than one filled with obsequious, servile acolytes whose top priority is glazing Trump at every turn.

We guess it really shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise when you consider the fact that our healthcare apparatus is being run by an 80-year-old fat guy and a crackpot conspiracy theorist who spends half his life in a tanning bed.

It also really shouldn’t come as a surprise given that the assault on America’s food-safety infrastructure was spelled out in Project 2025 before Trump even ran for office again. It called for “dramatically rethinking” (AKA, defunding) the federal government’s role in food and agriculture. The chapter of Project 2025 concerning the USDA claimed the department has expanded “far beyond” its original mission.

The same is true for the FDA. The Heritage Foundation, whose “experts” helped write much of Project 2025, have spent years arguing that the FDA’s regulatory authority was far too expansive. The plan (whose progress you can view here) included a wholesale deregulation of most products we use in our everyday lives – because for-profit corporations definitely know better.

Project 2025 gave them the blueprint.

Trump and RFK Jr. put it into practice.

For those of us who are actually interested in making America healthy again, we need to tell Trump, Kennedy, and all the other MAHA weirdos to get the hell out of our lives by getting the hell out of our government.