MSM Claims MAHA "Threatens To Set Women Back Decades"

The Make America Healthy Again movement is gaining momentum as more Americans take control of their food supply chain by planting backyard gardens and sourcing food from local markets and farms. This trend reflects a broader push for food independence and community-based sourcing. However, not everyone is on board with the movement, particularly feminist journalists at SELF, who claim that it threatens to set women back decades. Erica Sloan's article criticizes the movement, stating that food independence is unrealistic and burdensome for women in the modern world. Sloan argues that women already do a disproportionate share of household work and cooking, and the movement's emphasis on growing and preparing food from scratch would add to their labor. According to Norah MacKendrick, associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University, women spend more time on housework and cooking than men, and the implication that the current food system is unsafe would pile on more labor. The article claims that the movement's ideal of eating mostly homegrown or homemade meals is unrealistic and unfair to expect from all American families. However, the movement's supporters argue that it does not force anyone to grow their own food or make everything from scratch, but rather raises awareness about the systemic failures of Big Food and Big Pharma and empowers families to make informed choices. The movement's villainization of food processing is seen as adding to the burden of cooking from scratch, which is already a significant task for women. The article's conclusion and the magazine's advice to readers suggest that the movement is being targeted by corporate interests, potentially due to the magazine's mega-corporate advertisers.