Posted on 08/24/2023 3:05:51 PM PDT by bitt
The Biden regime is seemingly not satisfied with throwing innocent Americans in prison or coming after gas stoves in the name of “climate change.”
Now they want you to enjoy less beer.
The Regime’s health “czar” Dr. George Koob told the Daily Mail Thursday, which describes the guidelines as strict, that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is strongly considering emulating Canada’s alcohol advice in attempt to pressure Americans to limit their consumption. Canada recommends that their citizens consume no more than two drinks per week.
Koob, who is admits to consuming wine twice a week, thinks there are possible health benefits to such a proposal.
If there’s health benefits, I think people will start to re-evaluate where we’re at (in the US).
This would mark a significant change in current U.S. guidelines which state women can have up to one bottle of beer, small glass of wine or shot of spirit a day while men can have two. This means men would be urged to reduce their alcohol consumption from 14 drinks to just two while for women it would be seven to two.
Under current US guidelines, a drink is defined as containing 0.6 fluid ounces of alcohol, equivalent to one beer, one glass of wine at 12 percent alcohol or one shot.
These guidelines are up in 2025, just after the upcoming Presidential election.
Koob went to tell the Daily Mail that that there were “no benefits” to drinking alcohol in terms of health.
Most of the benefits people attribute to alcohol, we feel they really have more to do with what someone’s eating rather than what they’re drinking.
So it really has to do with the Mediterranean diet, socio-economic status, that makes you able to afford that kind of diet and make your own fresh food and so forth.
With this in mind, most of the benefits kind of disappear on the health side.
In the eyes of the Biden regime, drinking beer is a more pressing crisis than skyrocketing inflation, lawlessness on the border, and mortgage rates. Chalk up one more reason as to why Joe Biden needs to be removed from power.
I just made myself a Manhattan. While I was at it I made it a double. Combining my two weekly allowed drinks into one night.
Hillary will never comply!
Looks like Bud Light got a head start.....
The Democrats live in deadly fear that somewhere someone might be enjoying themselves. Buncha killjoys.
Do you voters really think we need to pay some unemployed azzho to do this sillyass Bedinskyyyy czar job? Afterall, American beer drinkers are grownups. They don’t need some pre-puberty, selfie-takin’ cellphone poker telling them when they can and can’t drink beer.
Sounds like a six-pack will be going up to $150.00 with an 1000% excise tax. BTW. Don’t forget to vote DemonRAT.
“Koob went to tell the Daily Mail that that there were “no benefits” to drinking alcohol in terms of health.”
Depends on whose health we are talking about. Might not be beneficial to MY health, but there are definitely people walking the earth today who might be a deal less healthy if I hadn’t been able to have a drink now and then to blow off some steam.
The funniest part is, they already tried this and failed miserably, but it looks like the progressives forgot that indelible lesson in government overreach.
Stuff your guidelines, Moob…I mean Koob.
Anybody who thinks emulating Canada is an idiot.
Not Babylon Bee????
Not Babylon Bee????
Control freaks have no limits but they do want to limit everything you do.
A large % of wine makers in California are democrats and/or big time contributors to the democrats.
These elites will not roll over and lose what was passed on to them by their parents and grandparents.
I find the term “czar” so abhorrent that I believe anyone appointed and called such should be subjected to the most hideous torture imaginable.
Beer flatulence contributes to global warming
Alcohol is the only thing that makes communism tolerable.
Hhmmm...thinking this is a distraction...This would never makke it thru Congress
Democrats always, ALWAYS overreach.
this will end well.
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