How ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Has Shaken the U.S. Food Industry

“让美国再次健康”如何撼动了美国食品行业

WSJ What’s News

2025-08-27

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P.M. Edition for Aug. 26. Big food companies were already reeling from shifting consumer preferences. Now, the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda has further shaken them. Jesse Newman, who covers food for the WSJ, describes what kinds of pressures these companies are under, and how they are responding. Plus, corn farmers in the U.S. Midwest are preparing to harvest what may be a record-sized crop this year. But as reporter Kirk Maltais discusses, that may not be the good news that it seems. And Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has pushed back against President Trump’s plan to send federal troops to Chicago. We hear from Chicago-based national affairs reporter Joe Barrett about what’s going on in the city. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • The governor of Illinois pushes back on Trump's plan to bring federal troops to Chicago.

  • Plus,

  • big food companies are grappling with how to handle the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again agenda.

  • The central project for these companies is how do we balance what Secretary Kennedy and Maha want with the need to make products that people are actually going to buy and can buy

  • because they are affordable.

  • And why, for American farmers, a good corn crop this year may not be good news.

  • It's Tuesday, August 26th.

  • I'm Alex Zosola for The Wall Street Journal.

  • This is the PM.

  • edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

  • President Trump has long painted many of the country's biggest cities as hellscapes of lawlessness and blamed the Democrats who run them.

  • His latest target appears to be Chicago.

  • Yesterday, the president threatened to send the National Guard to the nation's third largest city.

  • Illinois Democratic Governor J.B.

  • Pritzker pushed back against the plan.

  • Speaking yesterday at a press conference with the Chicago River as a backdrop,

  • Pritzker called the move unconstitutional and un-American.

  • The state of Illinois is ready to stand against this military deployment with every peaceful tool we have.

  • We will see the Trump administration in court.

  • We will use every lever at our disposal to protect the people of Illinois and their rights.