By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-05 09:09:55 | Updated at 2024-11-05 11:35:50
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Biden-Harris diet panel to elevate plant proteins over meat in snub to farm voters (only 6.23 years left)
Washington Examiner ^ | 10/30/24 | Gabrielle M. Etzel
Posted on 11/05/2024 12:43:29 AM PST by Libloather
A dietary health committee from the Biden-Harris administration is poised to issue guidelines for people in the United States recommending that plant-based proteins supplant animal-based proteins, such as beef, chicken, and eggs.
The recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which are reevaluated every five years, are slated to arrive by the end of the year after the 2024 election. In the meantime, though, the plan to downgrade animal-based proteins could hurt Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances with swing state voters in farming communities.
Although the panel’s final report is not expected until late December, the committee’s preliminary directive on protein was announced earlier this month during a more than five-hour meeting hosted by the National Institutes of Health.
During the meeting, the panel strongly supported downgrading meat, poultry, and eggs as primary protein and elevating beans, peas, and lentils out of the vegetable category of the food groups.
The recommendations, which would be in effect until 2030, come as environmentalists argue that industrialized meat and poultry production, particularly the cattle industry, is exacerbating climate change and that switching to plant-based protein would be more sustainable.
DGAC, a 20-member panel assembled every five years by the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: diet; farm; meat; voters
My EV came with a convenient bug holder compartment. Great for snacking on the go. And in a pinch, the front grill contains many delicious items. Hey, it's called a grill for a reason.
1 posted on 11/05/2024 12:43:29 AM PST by Libloather
To: Libloather
Man can NOT control the climate. What a bunch of egomaniacs.
2 posted on 11/05/2024 12:53:21 AM PST by Sacajaweau
To: Libloather
All this healthy talk reminded me that I still have 6 ribeyes in the freezer from a HUGE sale a few months ago...put them in the second freezer.
Also, I have to go to Country Donuts soon on Staten Island to get my wife a “Trump Donut” before they run out. The crazy Italians out here will be around the block in line.
Steak and donuts...not as healthy as bugs and plants but tasty :)
3 posted on 11/05/2024 1:07:33 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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