‘Wellness Farms’ Could Soon Be Coming to a Town Near You
Boom! Lawyered
Rewire News Group
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I can't help but think about how when Michelle Obama planted a garden at the White House, |
| 0:04.7 | Republicans lost their minds. They were outraged about telling their kids to eat a vegetable. |
| 0:13.0 | Now we've got an HHS secretary who advocates for quote-unquote wellness farms where you can |
| 0:18.8 | grow a carrot and heal your social anxiety disorder or your |
| 0:22.4 | ADHD. Also, the idea of putting a bunch of people with ADHD at what amounts to a concentration |
| 0:28.7 | camp is bitterly ironic. Just a bunch of people hyper-focusing on one carrot plant and watering the |
| 0:35.4 | shit out of it. And that carrot plant is next to a pile 20 feet high of single socks with no matching sock. |
| 0:47.7 | Two, three, four. |
| 0:49.7 | Two, three, four. |
| 0:51.7 | Hello, fellow law nerds. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that wants you to know that the A-N-D-E-I-A stands for accessibility and that Trump is coming for people with disabilities. I'm Rewire News Group's editor-at-Lar, Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Peeklo, ReWire News Group's executive editor. ReWire News Group's editor at large, Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Peeklo, |
| 1:12.3 | ReWire News Group's executive editor. Rewire News Group is the one and only home for expert |
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| 1:26.9 | Last week after RFK Jr. was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services, |
| 1:32.6 | Donald Trump dropped an executive order purporting to establish the president's |
| 1:36.7 | Make America Healthy Again Commission. |
| 1:40.3 | Now, a lot of folks have a nebulous feeling that this is bad, given his pension for peddling in |
| 1:45.7 | conspiracy theories like there are chemicals in the water, turning your kids gay or trans. |
| 1:51.4 | But there may be unclear how in a fascist society, someone like RFK Jr. heading up the nation's |
| 1:58.4 | public health department is not just bad. It could be catastrophic. |
| 2:03.8 | And because fascists love to hide their nefarious intent, you're lucky, listener, that one of us |
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