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Investigated $100 Billion in Healthcare Fraud

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Syngenta and Smithfield — Both Chinese-Owned — Spent $24 Million to Buy U.S. Food, Farm and Pesticide Policies
by Henrick Karoliszyn, DSW
October 22, 2026
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/d...2s#btn-share-1

(Podcast at the link. Hyperlinks in the article not embedded here.)

"The 31-page investigation by the Center for Responsible Food Business (CRFB) — “Pork, Pesticides, and the CCP: How China Buys Influence Over U.S. Farm Policy” — alleges that pesticide manufacturer Syngenta and pork producer Smithfield Foods repeatedly failed to disclose their Chinese ownership interests in federal lobbying reports.

“With help from lawmakers in both parties, China-owned Smithfield Foods and Syngenta want to block consumers’, neighbors’ and voters’ right to hold them accountable for poisonous pesticides and polluting factory farms,” Taylor Warren, president of the CRFB, told The Defender.

The report released today found that 139 current members of Congress received and retained political contributions from the companies’ political action committees (PACs).

At least 39 received money from both companies, including lawmakers responsible for legislation affecting pesticide regulation, agricultural production and food safety.

Among them were the Republican chairmen of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate agriculture committees, who oversee legislation directly affecting Syngenta’s and Smithfield’s business interests.

The findings raise alarms for President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, which promised to address environmental toxins and other potential contributors to chronic disease among American children.

“The MAHA movement is fighting to clean up our food, our water and our kids’ health,” Warren said. “CRFB’s new report exposes how China-owned Smithfield Foods and Syngenta are spending big in Washington to stop it.”

MAHA removed atrazine from agenda after Syngenta donation to Trump

The report highlights Syngenta’s atrazine, a widely used herbicide associated with endocrine disruption, cancer and drinking-water contamination.

Before he joined the Trump administration, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was an outspoken critic of atrazine. Since then, MAHA has targeted the pesticide.

In a 2023 interview, Kennedy criticized atrazine’s endocrine-disrupting effects, citing research involving male frogs.

In 2025, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified atrazine as probably carcinogenic to humans.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified potential exposure risks for children playing on treated lawns and workers handling the chemical.

A September analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity found atrazine contamination at concentrations considered harmful to aquatic wildlife in approximately 860,000 miles of rivers across the continental U.S.

According to the report released today, Syngenta donated $250,000 to Trump’s inaugural committee before his administration removed explicit references to the company’s atrazine from its final MAHA strategy and approved two new Syngenta pesticides that critics classify as “forever chemicals.”

The Trump administration’s initial MAHA assessment, released in May 2025, identified atrazine among chemical exposures of concern for children’s health.

Over the following quarter, Syngenta more than doubled its in-house lobbying expenditures to $420,000 and hired another firm to lobby the White House and federal agencies, according to CRFB.

The administration’s final MAHA strategy, released in September 2025, omitted atrazine by name.

In November 2025, the EPA also approved two Syngenta pesticides, cyclobutrifluram and isocycloseram, that environmental critics classify as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, commonly called “forever chemicals.”

The EPA could not be reached for comment.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement:

“Secretary Kennedy came to Washington to challenge the special interests that have shaped federal health policy for decades. The Trump Administration does not let outside interests dictate decisions about Americans’ health.”

Smithfield and Syngenta failed to disclose Chinese ownership while lobbying

Syngenta, one of the world’s largest pesticide manufacturers, was acquired in 2017 by Chinese state-owned ChemChina for approximately $43 billion. It is now owned through Sinochem Holdings, another Chinese state-owned enterprise.

Smithfield, the nation’s largest pork producer, was acquired in 2013 by the company now known as WH Group.

Since their acquisitions, the companies have spent a combined $24.2 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies, including $15.2 million by Smithfield and $9 million reported by Syngenta. They gave an additional $1.7 million to federal candidates, PACs and party committees and $530,000 to state candidates, according to the CRFB report.

The investigation identified lawmakers who received contributions from Syngenta’s PAC and subsequently challenged tighter EPA restrictions on atrazine.

Rep. Tracey Mann (R-Kan.) received $17,000 from Syngenta’s PAC after its Chinese acquisition. Reps. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) and Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) received $18,000 and $17,500.

All three supported a 2023 congressional letter challenging aspects of the EPA’s atrazine review.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.) received $28,500 from Syngenta’s PAC and $3,500 from Smithfield’s PAC, according to CRFB.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman (R-Ark.) received $25,000 from Syngenta and $7,000 from Smithfield.

None of the lawmakers could immediately be reached for comment.

Federal law generally permits political contributions from properly structured PACs affiliated with U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies, subject to restrictions on foreign-national participation.

The report alleges that the companies failed to properly disclose their Chinese ownership interests while lobbying on issues affecting their businesses.

Smithfield’s lobbyists omitted WH Group’s interest from 29 consecutive quarterly lobbying reports beginning in 2019, according to CRFB.

Syngenta’s lobbying reports similarly left foreign-interest disclosures blank beginning in at least 2017, the investigation found.

Neither company responded to requests from The Defender for comment."

Related articles in The Defender

MAHA Report Falls Short on Pesticides, Experts Say
RFK Jr.: MAHA Report a ‘Clarion Call’ to End the Chronic Disease Epidemic
Pesticide-Spraying Trucks Cruising Neighborhoods, Helicopters Raining Down Pellets: Mosquito Control Is a $2 Billion Business in the U.S.
For Millions of Kids, Back to School Means Back to Pesticide Exposure
6 Children in 1 Town Developed Rare Cancer. After Teen Dies, Families Demand Answers About Routine Use of Pesticides
‘Deceptively Toxic’: How Regulators, Chemical Companies Get Away With Calling Glyphosate ‘Safe’

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Pharma-Funded Manchurian Candidate Tapped to Defend Big Pharma’s Agenda

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Pharma-Funded Manchurian Candidate Tapped to Defend Big Pharma’s Agenda
The MAHA Report
By Louis Conte
Nov 06, 2026
https://substack.com/inbox/post/2236...dRedirect=true

"In a sure sign of what’s to come from low-brow sectors of the Democratic Party, Senator Angela Alsobrooks has been leading a campaign against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for several months, making all sorts of false claims against him.

Senator Angela Alsobrooks (MD-D)

Readers of The MAHA Report are well aware of Kennedy’s record at HHS: many of his policies are already improving the health of Americans.



But Alsobrooks wants the good old days of public health imperialism back. And it should be obvious why: She’s a big (although quiet) benefactor of Big Pharma largesse and promotes their interests in the Senate.

One day after an impressive victory for her party in the midterms, Alsobrooks signaled what she intends to focus on. Not lowering the cost of living. Not forever wars overseas. You guessed it: increasing Big Pharma profits.

It turns out that Alsobrooks receives most of her political contributions – 21% — from the ‘health and pharmaceutical sectors’ as shown here on U.S. Wealth Watcher, which noted, “that PFIZER INC. PAC is the largest named source on file at $10,000.”



Wealth Watcher also reports that Alsobrooks took $5,500 from the Johnson and Johnson’s PAC. But FEC receipts reveal a fuller picture:

$5,000 from Astra Zeneca

$5,000 from Sanofi’s PAC

$1,000 from Bristol Meyers Squib

$2,500 from McKesson

$3,500 from Gilead Health Services

$5,000 from AbbVie

$2,500 from Amgen

$2,500 from Novartis

$5,000 from Eli Lilly

$3,500 from Biotechnology Innovation

$2,000 from Glaxo Smith Klein

$2,000 from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers

$1,000 from Pharmaceutical Care Management Association

Despite these blatant conflicts of interest, Alsobrooks took to X on Wednesday to attack Secretary Kennedy.

“The time is now,” she wrote. “RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. End of discussion.”

Comments on Alsobrooks’ X feed did not exactly garner the response she was looking for.

“So, you don’t want to Make Americans Healthy LOL you’re disgusting.”

“I just filled up my tank thinking “Man, if RFK Jr. wasn’t Sec of HHS, my gas would be so much cheaper.” You nailed the problem, Angela. Thanks.”

“How the f#&% is that supposed to address cost of living? What the f#&% is wrong with you?”

“So, you guys all ran on lowering taxes, lowering gas prices and food prices but all you got is let’s go after the opposing party because we don’t like them. You’re absolutely f#&%ing worthless.”

“Spoken like a true dictator! Well done.”

“That selfish BAST*ARD. How dare he want our kids to have healthy food and the military to have something decent to eat?”

“How DARE he (Kennedy) question Pfizer. They have never done anything in self-interest and have never been dishonest.”

“Pretty tough words coming from a corrupt Big Pharma recipient...I live in Maryland and despise your lying cheating corruption.”

The last comment is spot on. The above data only took me a few hours to find. Alsobrooks in Big Pharma’s lapdog.

And this is why Alsobrooks is targeting Kennedy.

In all, she’s received contributions from more than a dozen Pharma-funded PACs over the last few years; she ought to be called “Alsotooks.”

To be fair, I may have missed a few donors and several thousand dollars of Big Pharma contributions, but it’s pretty clear what is going on here. And this quick bit of research does not include the uncountable donations that came to Alsobrooks from Act Blue donations.

Act Blue has been under Congressional Investigation and has been referred to the Department of Justice for possible criminal offenses. Safe to say, anything goes with Act Blue donations. Act Blue money might be from a legit donor, it might be from a foreign donor, it might be from a dead donor.

That’s a story for another day, but we know that Alsobrooks is essentially a Big Pharma operative embedded in the U.S. Senate. She does the industry’s bidding.

Big Pharma wants Senator Alsobrooks to go after Kennedy. As we’ve seen, she announced it on the first day after the midterms. The MAHA Report respects the message that the voters sent on November 3 — but rebels, rigorously, against Big Pharma’s agenda and influence.

On the very first day of what could still become a new era of greater transparency and accountability, Big Pharma and their lap dog senator from Maryland couldn’t resist pissing all over it. "