Donald J. Trump is president-elect again. Based on his track record and policy proposals, his election promises a rocky period for the US food tech sector.
America has just elected a climate change denier as president. In his first term, Donald Trump rolled back over 100 climate policies and pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. In his campaign leading up to the election, he has repeatedly spewed false claims that ignore climate science and incorrectly boasted about the “clean air” under his administration.
Now, he gets a chance to do it all over again. The second Trump term could see the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shaken up, even as it has just barely recovered from the plethora of staffing exits and budget cuts that Trump imposed when he was in the White House the first time around.
The ‘Make America Great Again’ section of the GOP has also been against climate-friendly foods like cultivated meat, with Florida and Alabama – both states that helped him regain the presidency – having banned these proteins already. Other Trump-worshipping Republicans, like Illinois’s Chris Miller, are hoping to introduce similar restrictions. And JD Vance, the vice-president-elect, recently slammed “disgusting fake meat”, labelling it “highly processed garbage”.
The signs are ominous for food tech, and the wider climate-centric agrifood industry. Cultivated meat approvals could now be on hold, the ultra-processed bandwagon against alternative proteins will likely get louder, Americans will further detach meat-eating from climate change, and regenerative agriculture – with all its shaky promises – could have a field day.
We’ve put together a roundup of the best news stories out there that explain what Trump’s second presidency will mean for the food industry and its fight against the climate crisis.
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