Committee charged with writing dietary guidelines suddenly goes vegetarian
When a government committee got together recently to whip up some new guidelines about how we’re supposed to eat, it left a lot of people asking: “Where’s the beef?”
Behind a closed-door, secret meeting last December, a committee of “experts” – a group organized by two big federal agencies — did a hat trick during the lunch break.
They made “lean meat” somehow disappear from the 2015 “Dietary Guidelines for Americans.”
The expert group is called the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. And it’s the same bunch that spun that “Fat is bad” fable decades ago. The one that resulted in scores of awful fat-free products, like margarine, hitting the market. Something that actually gave legions of people heart disease.
And every five years, by law, this panel is charged with giving us a new version of its nutritional mantra.
Now, since the get-go — 35 years ago — that advice has been consistently bad.
But this go-round looks worse than ever before.
Because now it’s saying that we should actually cut lean meat out of our diet.
The story, or at least the one given to the press, is that by doing that, we’ll all be able to help save the planet.
First of all, their job isn’t to build a better environment – we fund ANOTHER government agency to do that. They are supposed to help figure out the healthiest diet for Americans to eat. So let’s put the EPA propaganda aside and focus on the task at hand.
Lean meat and protein are essential to any healthy diet. If you’re not vegetarian for moral reasons or religious beliefs, there is simply no reason to give up meat.
Not to mention that what ADM and Monsanto are doing to the earth with their soy crops is a LOT worse than anything the cattle ranchers could cook up.
Sources:
“Last minute, closed-door meeting yanks meat form healthy diet recommendations” Rita Jane Gabbett, Meatingplace, December 31, 2014, meatingplace.com
“The meat industry’s worst nightmare could soon become a reality” Roberto A. Ferdman, January 7, 2015, The Washington Post, washingpost.com
