It’s once again time for this week’s episode of Schauer Thoughts and the bad news keeps coming. Join us in the communal Schauer for another deep dive on the MAHA Strategy as we’ll be going over the “data” and “sources” they provide for their supposed “health initiatives” with a fine-tooth comb. If you find yourself missing any context, please feel free to listen to Part 1! With all that said, I hope you enjoy this episode or at least learn something new - I know I definitely did.

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Books:

Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans - Khiara M. Bridges

Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care - Susannah Fox

Fragmented: A Doctor’s Guide to Piece Together American Health Care - Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution - Paul Hawkes, Amory Loving, L. Hunter Lovins

MAHA Information:

For all the “sources” I review during this episode you can find them on the page I mention in the MAHA Strategy & Report

MAHA Strategy

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-MAHA-Strategy-WH.pdf

MAHA Report

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MAHA-Report-The-White-House.pdf

Resources:

Cleaver among legislators introducing bill to guarantee minimum wage to incarcerated workers

https://www.kctv5.com/2026/03/19/cleaver-among-legislators-introducing-bill-guarantee-minimum-wage-incarcerated-workers/

Running Behind the DDT Truck: Growing up in the 1950s

https://cospringsrealestatenews.com/running-behind-the-ddt-truck/

SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth

https://www.searchfordiabetes.org/dspHome.cfm

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/

Census Information - US States & Territories by Historical Population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_historical_population

What is Ag-Gag Legislation?

https://www.aspca.org/improving-laws-animals/public-policy/what-ag-gag-legislation

Ag-Gag Across America

https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2017/09/Ag-GagAcrossAmerica.pdf

IQ: Can Intelligence Really Be Measured?

https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/neuroscience/iq-can-intelligence-really-be-measured/

WTAS: Secretary Kennedy Celebrates Hospital Nutrition Commitments, Florida Farm Partnership During Take Back Your Health Tour in Miami

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/wtas-sec-kennedy-celebrates-hospital-nutrition-commitments-florida-farm-partnership-during-take-back-your-health-tour-miami.html

RFK Jr. is shrinking the agency that works on mental health and addiction

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5424670/rfk-jr-samhsa-mental-health-addiction-overdose-trump-budget-cuts 

Prison Labor Information:

Prison Farms: Former Plantations, Dangerous Conditions, and No Pay

https://worthrises.org/blogpost/2025/6/18/prison-labor-in-agriculture-people-in-prison-are-picking-cotton-on-former-plantations-in-dangerous-conditions-for-no-pay

The Convict Leasing System: Slavery in its Worst Aspects

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2021/06/convict-leasing-system/

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires

https://revealnews.org/podcast/locked-up-the-prison-labor-that-built-business-empires-update-2023/

Prison Labor is Remarkably Common Within the Food System

http://nycfoodpolicy.org/prison-labor-is-remarkably-common-within-the-food-system/

Force prison labor in the “Land of the Free” Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight

https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/

Mental Health Services for Farmers:

Rural Minds

https://www.ruralminds.org/farmerresilience 

Farm Credit East

https://www.farmcrediteast.com/en/resources/todays-harvest-Blog/260512MentalHealthResourcesforAgriculture 

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