Influence Game: Meat industry fights new dietary proposal

Associated Press ^ | Mar. 12, 2015 2:30 AM EDT | Mary Clare Jalonick

[Olog-hai]

The meat industry is seeing red.

Meat companies have tried to rehabilitate an image tarnished in recent years by health and environmental concerns. Now the industry is swiftly and aggressively working to discredit a proposal for new dietary guidelines that recommends people eat less red and processed meat.

The proposal last month by a government advisory committee also relegates the health benefits of lean meat to a footnote to the main recommendations.

“We’ve been put in a position over the years to almost be apologizing for our product; we’re not going to do that anymore,” said Barry Carpenter, the president and CEO of the North American Meat Institute. […]

This is not the first time the red meat has campaigned against dietary guidelines. In 1977, the first guidelines, issued by a Senate panel, said Americans should “reduce consumption of meat and increase consumption of poultry and fish.” …

[A Navy Vet]

Human beings evolved (or created) to eat meat. Give me a sirloin and I feel great; give me the equivalent of carbohydrates and I drag butt.

[Oberon]

Red meat fan here. Too bad it’s so expensive. I’ve never bought the idea that it was unhealthy.

[catnipman]

Hey, that simply means more for me if the kommies convince the sheeple red meat is bad juju.

[kevslisababy]

It’s not like I will listen to the govt about what I should it. They have been wrong pretty much every time.

[Gaffer]

The fools in government who contemplate this should go tell that pride of lions out on the plain to go “root some truffles.”

[traderrob6]

Not pork. Bought Bnls Loin for $1.69/lb earlier this week. That’s half the price of cheap burger

BTW “the other white meat” is a marketing ploy. Pork is condiered a “red meat”.

[BuffaloJack]

Meat is food. Vegetables are what food eats.

[kevkrom]

Fewer processed foods of any kind is a good recommendation. But less meat? These recommendations coming from the same folk who already have egg on their faces for their bogus crusade against eggs?

[GailA]

Have you fried breakfast sausage lately, very little grease in the pan. Not enough to make gravy. I don't eat this every day, but no government or doctor is telling me I can't have it occasionally. Nor deny me the right to eat the meats I like.

They will be prying my them out of my hands along with my gun.

[Joe Boucher]

get this f-ing omnipresent, worthless federal gub mint out of my bidness.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Too much time on their hands, obviously.

[muir_redwoods]

I seem to possess an inate ability to know how much red meat I need. I mix it up with fish and poultry and seem happiest with one red meat meal per week. I guess the government must think I’m crazy but I’d rather listen to my own body than listen to the government.

[gspurlock]

Right, the peasants need to change their diet to nuts and berries so that only the elite have access to high quality protein.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“This is not the first time the red meat has campaigned against dietary guidelines. In 1977, the first guidelines, issued by a Senate panel, said Americans should “reduce consumption of meat and increase consumption of poultry and fish.” …”

Guess the government will have to open back up the fishing grounds that they have significantly reduced over the years.

Let them reconcile that.

[kiryandil]

Eat more fatty meat.

The gruberment is lying to you, once again.

[kiryandil]

Backyard burger and wiener roasts targeted by EPA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3267675/posts

Big Government on your back:

• no phosphates in your dish soap, so your dishes don't get clean.
• no phosphates in your laundry soap, so your clothes don't get clean.
• biodiesel in your diesel and kerosene, so your diesel equipment has trouble running, and your portable kerosene heaters clog the wicks faster.
• no coal plants, so the price of electricity goes up.
• no coal plants, so your concrete doesn't have concrete-strengthening fly ash.
• allowing Big Cheese to drive up the price of your cheese.
• emissions computers in chainsaws, so you can't use your chainsaw in the woods.
• emissions controls on wood stoves, so you can't heat your house with wood.
• gas cans with no vents, so you spill gasoline all over the place. >>> Fuel cans from hell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3239561/posts
• ethanol in your gasoline, so that it eats the seals in your small engines.
• ethanol in your gasoline, so that you can't keep it for very long.
• biodiesel in your diesel, so that you can't keep it for very long.
• ethanol in your gasoline, so that the farmers use the winter heating propane supply to dry wet & immature corn, so that YOU pay for the scarce left-over propane.
• In 2005, the federal government (EPA) completed its phase out of a chemical known as methyl bromide, used to control pests in peach trees and other plants.
• The FDA has decided to regulate fecal transplants as "an experimental drug".