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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...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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
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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
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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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To: Libloather
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.

Amazing.

I can not believe they will do this and continue to expect ANYONE to vote for them.

Even most progs draw the line at the first sign of getting hungry and beans with a side of chickpeas isn't going to put a dent in anything.

Take away those New York Strip and tenderloin steaks and stand back, you will have an unhinged liberal trying to run you over with their BMW.

.

4 posted on 11/05/2024 1:29:19 AM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Libloather

Well, of course, given their coalition of left-wing nut jobs. They don’t give two hoots about the cost of meat since Food Stamps are the only thing preventing food riots.


5 posted on 11/05/2024 1:42:25 AM PST by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love?)
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To: Sacajaweau

‘Climate change’ is nothing more than the most sinister, most diabolical of plots, created by those whose seething hatred and rage to punish America and other advanced countries by forcing great suffering on us while stealing out resources and assets and giving it to those too stupid, lazy or evil to better themselves.


6 posted on 11/05/2024 1:58:29 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Libloather

did the recommendation explain how folks eating a plant protein diet are supposed to obtain vitamin B12?


7 posted on 11/05/2024 2:22:23 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Libloather
The problem with elevating plant protein (particularly beans) over animal protein is that you get a lot of natural gas (farts galore).

Doesn't that defeat the purpose.

8 posted on 11/05/2024 2:35:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Yeah, all that fiber makes you fart.


9 posted on 11/05/2024 3:42:24 AM PST by Stepan12 (Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
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To: Libloather

“it’s called a grill for a reason”! you’ve got your outdoor grilling and then there’s your outback grilling for those who live “out of town a bit”. more variety, bigger snacks.


10 posted on 11/05/2024 3:47:11 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First ges secnd" L.Star)
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To: Libloather

This topic is exactly like the global warming nonsense, gummit control and handouts by the $billions to their cronies to develop in front companies, the Hussein gimmedats to Solyndra is a perfect example.


11 posted on 11/05/2024 4:12:11 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Stepan12

And oligosaccharides (complex sugars).


12 posted on 11/05/2024 4:40:03 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: quantim

Then start with government handouts. Deny EBT purchases of meat products. Do not serve meat products at any government cafeteria. Deny government employee reimbursement for the purchase of any meat product. Prohibit the transport, storage, or use of any meat product in any government owned or operated building.

Let’s see how well the concept is accepted then.

EC


13 posted on 11/05/2024 4:49:37 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: catnipman

Beans are an incomplete protein source, you have to add meat or cheese to it.


14 posted on 11/05/2024 5:57:40 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: kaktuskid

beans and a grain like rice supposedly together provide a complete protein, but that still doesn’t solve the B12 issue as B12 can be obtained in one’s diet only from consuming animal products ...


15 posted on 11/05/2024 6:36:24 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Libloather

Ha!

And just when do “recommendations” become requirements? They’re already pushing to outlaw ICE vehicles, gas appliances & heating systems, fireplaces, guns, free speech (esp on social platforms) ... if they feel that they have a “mandate” ... we really are in trouble [<——as Joe Rogan said, a bit more colorfully]


16 posted on 11/05/2024 8:01:28 AM PST by twyn1 (“An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over the ashes”I thin)
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To: Libloather

on the brighter side, America won’t need all those illegals to work at the slaughterhouses anymore. Americans are perfectly capable of catching their own grasshoppers and ants.


17 posted on 11/05/2024 1:27:17 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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