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Pesticides are a big business in the United States — a billion pounds of insect and weed killers can be used in a year, mostly to blanket acres of corn, soybeans, spinach, and wheat grown by America’s massive agriculture industry.

Banning or heavily restricting certain pesticides has been a core tenet of the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement, and supporters expected the Trump administration, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as its Health and Human Services secretary, to deliver.

But a much-touted strategy report by the MAHA Commission — a Trump-mandated group led by Kennedy that is supposed to tackle the drivers of chronic disease in America — emerged this week with little to show on the issue.

Now, some of the most politically enga

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