Obama Administration to Insert Global Warming Activism into Dietary Guidelines Mandated by Congress

Maybe carbon should be removed from all government payed for or subsidised food. That should be interesting.

Guess what this will do to meat prices! You know what those nasty cows do. Look for a tax on foods considered “non-friendly to the environment. If everything is so bad, why does life-expectancy continue to increase?

They’re going to force the peasantry to become vegetarians one way or another.

The hits just keep on comin!!!

In the spirit of “A Modest Proposal” perhaps they will recommend “Long Pig” as a sustainable choice.

Cheap carbohydrates, while lesser in “carbon footprint” than say, healthy animal fats and proteins, are the cause of innumerable chronic diseases.
It becomes a choice between a superstitious penance, and actual human health.

Carbon is essential for life to exist so we must consume carbon in its various forms to continue to live. The only way to reduce our carbon footprint through our diet is to remove ourselves from the food chain – I suggest that these anti-carbon activists take that course of action immediately.

I guess that Pasta Carbonara is off the menu

Yes, I must admit, I’m firmly committed to the idea that the carbon footprint of the American diet should most definitely be scrutinized. And, to develop the proper scrutinization method, where better to seek an example than from none other than the White House’s and the lovely Michelle Obama’s personal chef: one of Washington’s 50 most people; none other than Sam Kass? Here, from Vogue:
http://m.vogue.com/magazine/article/the-talk-of-the-town-alex-wagner-and-sam-kass-politics-it-couple/
‘Sam Kass has the day off from cooking for the president, which is good news for his fiancée, Alex Wagner—and also for me, their guest for dinner. We’re at Kass’s duplex apartment in Washington’s Logan Circle, and Kass is slicing serrano peppers to go with collard greens while Wagner sets out cheese and olives and searches his bachelor’s refrigerator (champagne, mustard) for a bottle of rosé she remembers from her last visit. In about 30 minutes, a delicious meal is nearly ready: butterflied roast chicken with tarragon and preserved lemons, farro risotto with wild mushrooms and leeks, and a green salad with buttermilk dressing.
While Kass works efficiently in the kitchen, Wagner stirs the conversation. I hear about the couple’s favorite New York restaurants: Blue Hill, Carbone, Franny’s, and Vinegar Hill House; about friends in Italy who made the Barbaresco we’re now drinking; and about his hand-forged Carter Cutlery knives, which are produced by a Japanese-trained bladesmith in Oregon. She complains in mock horror that every trip to the high-end knife shop in D.C.’s Union Market “costs us about $500.”’
Heck, that $500 knife sharpening’s going to be cheap compared to what this wrecking crew’s gonna’ be pickin’ from our pockets. All together now: Tar. Feathers. Pitchforks. Crow bars.

The new diet considers whether or not it slims down Mother Gaia before it slims down you. Completely insane.

philjourdan says:
March 10, 2014 at 11:10 am
Reminds me eerily of Ceaușescu and his wife.
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How’d that turn out? Oh yeah, I remember. Golly, hope nothing like that happens to Barry and Michelle Antoinette!

Ferdinand Engelbeen says:
March 10, 2014 at 11:38 am
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It’s really too bad that the devastating environmental effects of DMHO are largely ignored outside of a few people involved with chemistry.

Cloudbuster says:
March 10, 2014 at 12:27 pm
………….. Eat that extra donut, folks — it’s for the planet!
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I always knew I was one of the good guys!!!

@Gail Combs –
Before the advent of agriculture 12 or 13 thousand years ago, man’s diet was at least 85 percent meat.
Man has the digestive system of a carnivore, virtually identical to that of a dog or cat, with one minor exception – the vermiform appendix, the last relict of herbivorous ancestors.
LOVE THAT CARBON FOOTPRINT!! LONG LIVE HIGHER CROP YIELDS!! LONG LIVE MORE DROUGHT RESISTANCE!!

Also in re eating meat – it seems that almost every day one hears of some other essential nutrient that can be obtained only from meat.

Another Obamanable turd sandwich from the Bush blossom!

What a ridiculous proposition! Carbon dioxide isn’t even the cause of global warming/climate change. The burning of fossil fuel is to supply HEAT, and the HEAT emitted from our energy use is four times that which can be accounted for by the rise in atmospheric temperature. Where did the rest of the HEAT go? And what does that leave for CO2 to be blamed for?

It occurs to me that many here at WUWT are not aware of the behind the scenes stuff going on in food. Over the last couple decades there has been a major consolidation in the control of food not only in the USA but world wide. These ten corporations have a lot of power in Washington DC as the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture and the Food Safety Modernization Act show.
Ann Veneman is a classic example. She went from a lawyer at Patton Boggs, a Washington law/lobby firm involved in the Chevron suit, to USDA foreign trade negotiator (for WTO) She was a board member of a Monsanto subsidiary company before she became US Secretary of Agriculture for George W. Bush in 2001 then worked as a United Nations Executive Director and is now a board member of Nestlé. That revolving door sure does spin doesn’t it?
Over the last half century agricultural business has become horizontally integrated over different commodity sectors, and more recently vertical integration has come into play. Many livestock producers purchase their feed from the same firms to which they sell their animals or in the case of chickens, the farmer doesn’t even own the birds or equipment and even his mortgage is owned by the corporation he is contracted to. Once hooked, the farmer is a slave to the corporation, never able to get out of debt because the equipment becomes obsolete thanks to new USDA regulations before the debt is paid. Many I know personally have not seen a raise since 1982.
The undercutting of grain crop prices has also allowed the control of hogs by the four largest firms to increase from 37 percent in 1987 to 60 percent by 1998.

…six multinational corporations — BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta — control 75 per cent of all private-sector plant breeding research, 60 per cent of the commercial seed market and 76 per cent of global pesticide and fertiliser sales.
And in livestock genetics, it says, four firms control 97 per cent of research on poultry and two thirds of swine and cattle research….
http://www.scidev.net/global/food-security/news/world-agribusiness-r-d-controlled-by-cosy-cartel.html

Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 28, 2000)
[Senate]
[Pages S1807-S1809]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office
….And finally, unless we address the current trend of consolidation and vertical integration in corporate agriculture, nothing else we do to maintain the family size farms will succeed. The farm share of profit in the food system has been declining for over 20 years. From 1994 to 1998, consumer prices have increased 3 percent while the prices paid to farmers for their products has plunged 36 percent. Likewise, the impact of price disparity is reinforced by reports of record profits among agribusinesses at the same time producers are suffering an economic depression.
In the past decade and a half, an explosion of mergers, acquisitions, and anti-competitive practices has raised concentration in American agriculture to record levels.
The top four pork packers have increased their market share from 36 percent to 57 percent. In fact, the world’s largest pork producer and processor is getting bigger. Smithfield Foods is buying the Farmland Industries plant in Dubuque, Iowa. This deal should be complete by mid-May.
The top four beef packers have expanded their market share from 32 percent to 80 percent.
The top four flour millers have increased their market share from 40 percent to 62 percent.
The market share of the top four soybean crushers has jumped from 54 percent to 80 percent.
The top four turkey processors now control 42 percent of production. Forty-nine percent of all chicken broilers are now slaughtered by the four largest firms. The top four firms control 67 percent of ethanol production.
The top four sheep, poultry, wet corn, and dry corn processors now control 73 percent, 55 percent, 74 percent, and 57 percent of the market, respectively.
The four largest grain buyers control nearly 40 percent of elevator facilities.
By conventional measures, none of these markets are really competitive. According to the economic literature, markets are no longer competitive if the top four firms control over 40 percent. In all the markets I just listed, the market share of the top four firms is 40 percent or more. So there really is no effective competition in these processing markets.
But now, with this explosion of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, marketing agreements, and anticompetitive behavior by the largest firms, these and other commodity markets are becoming more and more concentrated by the day….
(wwwDOT)gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2000-03-28/html/CREC-2000-03-28-pt1-PgS1807-2.htm

New Farm Bill and U.S. Trade Policy: Implications for Family Farms and Rural Communities
John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO – USA.
Presented at “Grain Place” Farm Tour and Seminar, Aurora, Nebraska, July 27, 2002
…Not surprisingly, the same forces that have shaped U.S. farm policy have shaped U.S. agricultural trade policy. The Agricultural Establishment encouraged U.S. farmers to support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with the promise of free access to growing markets of agricultural products in Mexico and Canada. The Agricultural Establishment told U.S. farmers that agriculture should be brought under the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), with the promise of greater access to growing markets worldwide. The NAFTA became law on January 1, 1994 and the World Trade Organization (WTO), with greatly expanded authority over agricultural trade, replaced the GATT on January 1, 1995. Most American farmers embraced these new trade agreements, along with “Freedom to Farm” bill of 1996, because the Agricultural Establishment convinced them that “global free trade” was their key to prosperity.
So far, corporate agribusiness has been the only major benefactor of the new global agricultural economy. Agribusiness has prospered while American farmers have been made unwilling “wards of the government.” The only industry more profitable than food processing and distribution during the decade of the 1990s was pharmaceuticals. The farm commodity organizations and the Farm Bureau have come under increasing criticism from the rank and file of their farmer members, as their true allegiances have become more widely known. The USDA and the Land Grant Universities have become viewed with increasing skepticism by many farmers because of their close financial and professional alliances with corporate agribusiness. American farmers are beginning to understand that the “future of farming” and the “future of the agricultural industry” are two distinctively different concepts.
Increasingly, the Agricultural Establishment is becoming dominated by the agribusiness corporations, which increasingly are multinational in scope of operation and ownership. Not surprisingly then, Americans increasingly are losing control of American agriculture. Increasingly, decisions concerning what to produce, how much to produce, where to produce, how to produce, and who will produce, are being made, not by American citizens, but by a handful of multinational corporations.[3] The people who own the land and do the work may still be Americans, but the decisions are being made by someone else, somewhere else. For the most part, contractual arrangements dictate the important decisions, leaving “producers” as little more than landlords, tractor drivers, or hog house janitors, but certainly not with the traditional role of “farmer.”…
[Includes links to summaries of global food consolidation studies]
web(DOT)missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/FarmBill.html

I hesitate to link to this site since the guy has a bad reputation but it does have a decent listing of the eleven corporations (now ten due to a merger) link so it makes a starting place for further investigation.

Seriously. Russia will just have to stand back and watch. They don’t need their own Reagan. We are running ourselves into the ground.

I feel so sorry for the school children nowadays. I remember having mystery meat, a cooked veggie, a fresh-baked dinner roll, and whole milk in elementary school. These days they call it a lunch when they offer them a tiny cup of raw broccoli, a tiny cup of grapes, and skim milk. Who can keep their mind on their studies if that’s all they had for lunch?

Jaakko Kateenkorva says:
March 10, 2014 at 1:07 pm
What? There is no known carbonless life. Inorganic meals ahead?
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New bumper stickers:
Let them eat ROCKS.
Greens should EAT ROCKS,
they don’t contain CARBON

NRG22 says: @ March 10, 2014 at 2:27 pm
Meanwhile in the real world…
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In the name of the Ten Thousand Little God’s who do they think they are giving that crap to a kiddie in kindergarten?
The only thing out of that entire pile of useless empty calories that I might touch is the Slim Jim and that is only if I was starving.
What ever happen to fruits, nuts and cheese as healthy snacks?

Janice Moore says: @ March 10, 2014 at 5:22 pm
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Janice,
If you ever do the research you might want to have A.W. put it up as a post for the other lawyer types (we do have some) to critique . Of course I expect all the legalize about not being legal advise yadiyadiya…
Still it might make an interesting post to look at especially the way we are headed here in the USA.

Gail Combs says:
March 10, 2014 at 8:11 pm
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No, no, that’s college care packages that they put together for parants to buy and the college delivers it to the student. I laughed that it was described as “tasty and wholesome foods” and “high energy success snacks.” Tasty, sure, wholesome, no. The high energy kit is only high carb and bad fats and if that’s what they think is good for success at college I’m worried. This is a first rate public university.
The stress buster kit is something you would give to a kindergartener, and my daughter is 18. Sheesh. I’m trying to get my children to grow up and society keeps throwing up roadblocks.

@Gail Combs –
Kind of a chicken-and-egg case, as to motivations: which comes first, the money or the control? I’m inclined to believe the latter, because any number of people seeking power have blown it financially, on every scale from the individual to countries like Germany and Russia. And then you throw in the widely publicized asceticism of some of these power freaks like Hitler and Mao and Jerry Brown (who boasted of living in an unfurnished apartment and sleeping on a mattress on the floor).. From my historian’s perspective it looks like power, i.e., control, is the master motive, and money, if anything, is a demonstration of power and/or a means of obtaining and demonstrating it, more than an end in itself. Most of these people are single-minded fanatics, not hedonists..
Of course, the present infestation of the White House does lend itself to the money-first theory, what with Marie Antoinette’s 100-million-dollar vacations.

We need to organize a group that will descend on all caterers of political events and blockade their premises until they guarantee in writing that they will only serve food in compliance with the new regulations.
Can’t you see it, a pale block of tofu instead of beef, chicken, or fish. Tap water instead of alcohol. Etc. The donors and pundits will love it.

It was someone’s comment on WUWT a few years ago, words to the effect, “the bad science of global warming reminds me of the bad science of nutrition”, which directed me to look away from the 97% of nutritionists, to check out Paleo, LCHF, Primal, Taubes, etc. and I have been very pleased with the results!
Dear USA, you can keep your obesity and diabetes epidemic healthcare cost monster for the sake of your grain industry if you really like. Dear environmentalists, you can keep your body wasting vegan diets if you really like. I hope y’all join the Swedes in their interest in LCHF, and read The Vegetarian Myth. I hope everyone discovers better health.
Leirre Keith in her book makes the argument that we’d all be better off if we just used more natural pastures and cows than if we keep wasting the environment on grains.

Gail Combs says: March 10, 2014 at 7:57 pm
Greens should EAT ROCKS, they don’t contain CARBON
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Just realized, it’s worse than we thought. The most common rock on earth’s crust is limestone (CaCO3). But, granite, glass, silicon, brimstone or actinides would do. 🙂