Building A Healthier America

Our food and water are making us sick, and everyone in Washington knows it. So many Americans see that corporate influence pushes the mass production of ultra-processed food and the overuse of pesticides that pollute our water and drive up rates of chronic disease and cancer. 

President Trump and RFK Jr. have had the chance to act—and instead, they’ve kept protecting the same multinational corporations that pad their profits at the expense of our wallets and health. Earlier this year, the President sided with Monsanto selling chemicals against cancer claims from American farmers. Mike Rogers helped architect the opioid crisis when he was in Congress and if you leave it up to him, he’ll serve as a yes-man to President Trump to continue to aggravate our current health crisis. 

Abdul is a public health expert who understands the importance of access to natural, healthy foods, agriculture free of toxic pesticides, and drinking water free of PFAS, carcinogens, and lead. He has run programs like SNAP and WIC that support working people, piloting programs that provide access to fresh produce, and getting lead out of the water across Detroit. Abdul wants to implement the right solutions to make a healthier America because he does not take contributions from the very corporations who profit from stuffing our food with ultra-processed junk. 

As Michigan’s next U.S. Senator, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will introduce legislation to:

• Get toxins out of our food: Ban the same pesticides already prohibited in Europe. Support the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act to preserve Americans’ right to sue when toxic pesticides cause them harm, and reject every attempt by Congress or state legislatures to hand agrochemical manufacturers legal immunity.
• Farmers first, not chemical companies: Rebuild the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service technical-assistance staff gutted by DOGE cuts, so farmers get real help adopting cover crops, diversified rotations, nutrient management, and managed grazing. Shift agricultural subsidies to reward soil health and reduced chemical dependency, not to lock farmers into ever-rising input costs.
• Break up corporate concentration in agriculture: Put family farms over corporate ag. Take on the consolidated seed, fertilizer, and chemical markets that trap farmers into paying monopoly prices for the inputs they need. More competition means more choices and lower costs for the people actually growing our food.

• Clean water, guaranteed: Get PFAS, lead, and microplastics out of Michigan’s drinking water. Restore and strengthen federal PFAS drinking-water limits instead of rolling them back. Invest in permanent water infrastructure, including full lead-pipe replacement for every Michigan community that needs it.
• School meals that actually nourish: Build real scratch-cooking kitchens in Michigan schools instead of relying on heavily processed food. Expand programs like Michigan’s 10 Cents a Meal to buy directly from Michigan farmers by investing in state programs with similar goals across the country. Hire and train local cooks and food-service workers to prepare healthy meals every school day.
• Public dollars should buy public health: Use the purchasing power of schools and other public institutions to create real demand for minimally processed, healthy food. Invest in regional food processing and local supply chains so Michigan farmers keep more of every food dollar and Michigan families get fresher food at lower prices and provide local farmers with relief from the effects of Trump’s trade wars.
• Food as medicine: Integrate healthy food into how Michigan delivers health care, recognizing what most Americans already know: diabetes alone costs the country roughly $640 billion a year in medical costs and food is one of the most powerful tools we have to bring that number down. Implement programs like Wayne County’s Well Wayne Fresh Truck Mobile Market, that Abdul helped design, that are already making an impact in Michigan: a grocery store on wheels, built through a partnership between the county and a local food business. Scale that model nationwide, so that nobody has to choose between the cost of a car and the cost of a vegetable.
• Accountability for polluters, not immunity: Oppose every liability shield that protects agrochemical and PFAS manufacturers from the consequences of the harm they cause. Get industry lobbyists out of the agencies charged with regulating their former employers. Every commitment here must come with real enforcement mechanisms and real penalties for corporations that break their word.