With only days - hours - until the election, most of us who haven't already voted have already decided who we're backing. People vote for any number of reasons based on any number of issues. Free speech, the Second Amendment, the economy, taxation - there are many issues and reasons to vote. But here's one you may not have considered: the possibility of the government telling you what you can eat.
Oh, the federal government has made dietary recommendations for a long time now. Remember the USDA's "food pyramid?" But this is a little different; the Harris/Biden administration is putting out "recommendations" that Americans should eat more plants and less meat.
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.
"Such as" beef, chicken, and eggs. How about moose, spruce grouse, and salmon? Those are some of our staples - but then, I presume the same recommendations apply. And, sure, you could make a health-based argument for eating your greens. But that's not what is going on here.
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.
And there we are. Bovine flatulence and climate change again - apparently the 60 million bison that roamed the Great Plains didn't produce methane, but cattle do.
And that's not all! Get a load of this:
One of the goals of the 2025 dietary guidelines, set by the Biden-Harris administration in 2022, is “to reflect the racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic diversity of the U.S.”
Oh, for crying out loud.
Look, these are recommendations - for now. But does anyone think that a possible Harris administration would, given the inevitable non-compliance with these recommendations, cite "climate change" as a reason to enforce these recommendations with taxes and regulations? There's a reason that the left keeps beating this drum, and it's not about the climate, it's not about the environment. Most of the people shouting about this have never been out in the environment, and in fact, look down their noses at those of us who actually live out in nature. No, this is a power grab, nothing but.
This isn't just happening here:
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Members of Congress are pushing back.
“Under President Biden and Vice President Harris, inflationary spending and regulatory red tape have driven meat and poultry prices to record highs,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told the Washington Examiner. “Now, the Biden-Harris Administration is pushing Americans toward a radical Green New Deal–style meatless diet,” said
The House Oversight committee last month opened an official investigation into DGAG’s handling of alcohol consumption guidelines after committee members had not received a response since April for updates regarding alcohol’s affect on mortality.
Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) told Food Safety News that the 2025 guidance on protein is an example of “the far Left’s war on your grocery list.”
“Meat is the most efficient way to deliver protein, and potatoes contain basic nutrients like potassium and Vitamin C,” said Flood. “Meat and potatoes underpin our country’s food security.”
Rep. Comer nails it - it's another Green New Deal agenda item, and the left has already shown they are willing to give this agenda the force of law.
And all over the bugaboo of climate change. Of course, not everything about a warmer climate is OMG DOOM, as I wrote about only recently:
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If someone could show me in the Constitution where the federal government has an enumerated power that includes making dietary "recommendations," I'd be grateful; I'm not a credentialed constitutional scholar but I've read it a bunch of times, I'm pretty familiar with that document, and I can't find any such authorization in there. So why is the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee soaking up taxpayer money to roll out these "recommendations?" Why does the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee even exist? Can't we decide for ourselves what to eat or not eat?
But, of course, climate change - and diversity. It's like opening a Crackerjack box and finding the prize is a container of stupid.
Vote! If you haven't voted already, vote! This is the kind of stupidity a Harris regime would bring you. Vote!
