“Supply chains don’t move overnight,” says Keychain CEO Oisin Hanrahan. “Above all, people don’t want to be caught flat-footed.”
Responses to our survey reflect sharply contrasting views on topics from RFK Jr to tariffs and regenerative agriculture.
Prospective HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has drawn praise and criticism from the left and the right in equal measure. So is his potential appointment cause for alarm, or a huge win for public health?
“If he goes ahead, it’s going to have enormously consequential and negative impacts on American manufacturing and agriculture,” predicts Dent.
“Across the board tariffs applied to Mexico and Canada would violate the USMCA, full stop,” says economist Jeffrey Schott. “There definitely would be a lot of litigation against the US action by domestic and foreign groups.”
Both candidates could have far-reaching impacts on the food industry, from Trump’s plans to let RFK ‘go wild’ on food & health to Harris’ proposal to increase the corporate tax rate.
