Aaargh! Forget nutrition and medical guidelines, carbon footprint is the new diet selector.
Climate Change Activists to Meet Food Police at Closed-Door Meeting March 14
New York, NY / Washington DC – At a closed-door meeting to take place March 14, the Obama Administration’s Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services plan to update the nation’s “dietary guidelines” — a document with significant repercussions for food stamps, military and school meals programs — to include anti-global warming activism.
In an article, “Obama administration pollutes guidelines for healthy eating with unhealthy ideologies,” published Sunday by the Washington Examiner, National Center Senior Fellow and Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier says environmental activists within the U.S. government plan to change the nation’s dietary guidelines to promote foods that they believe have “a smaller carbon footprint.”
In the past, says Stier, the federal government’s dietary guidelines were intended exclusively to “promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases.”
No more, says Stier: “For the first time in the history of the guidelines, ‘sustainability’ is part of the agenda. Actual items on their Dietary Guidelines working group agenda include ‘immigration,’ ‘global climate change’ and ‘agriculture/aquaculture sustainability.'”
What’s more, says Stier, these new guidelines will cost the public money: “By favoring foods which activists think have a smaller carbon footprint, the new guidelines will increase the prices you pay for your food. It will also increase the cost to all taxpayers, since the Dietary Guidelines are used to set policy for food stamps (SNAP) and military diets,” he says.
“The food guidelines, by law, are supposed to be based on a ‘preponderance of scientific and medical knowledge,'” said Amy Ridenour, chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research, who has studied climate change polices for over a quarter century. “Science can say with authority that eating green vegetables is good for you. It can’t say that humans are causing catastrophic global warming with any more certainty than it can explain why the planet hasn’t warmed since the Clinton Administration. Moms and Dads across America deserve — and, as taxpayers, have paid for — dietary guidelines they can use to help them feed their families wisely. No one benefits from causing people to wonder if the nutritional advice they are getting from their government isn’t focused on nutrition at all, but has been polluted by environmental activists.”
The full Washington Examiner article can be read here.
New York City-based Jeff Stier is a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and heads its Risk Analysis Division. Stier is a frequent guest on CNBC, and has addressed health policy on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, as well as network newscasts. Stier’s National Center op-eds have been published in top outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Newsday, Forbes, the Washington Examiner and National Review Online. He also frequently discusses risk issues on Twitter at @JeffaStier.
Washington-based Amy Ridenour, founding CEO of the National Center and currently co-CEO with her husband, David Ridenour, has been interviewed on television or radio thousands of times, and had her op-ed published in newspapers thousands of times, on nearly every major public policy issue since the National Center’s 1982 founding. Newspapers running her op-eds within the year include the Denver Post, Providence Journal, Las Vegas Sun, Arizona Daily Star, Boston Herald, Deseret News, Duluth News Tribune, Orange County Register, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Omaha World-Herald and many others. She discusses issues on Twitter at @AmyRidenour.
The National Center for Public Policy Research, founded in 1982, is a non-partisan, free-market, independent conservative think-tank. Ninety-four percent of its support comes from individuals, less than four percent from foundations, and less than two percent from corporations. It receives over 350,000 individual contributions a year from over 96,000 active recent contributors.
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Mindless. Simply Mindless.
So carbon-based life forms are not to eat carbon-based foods that leave a carbon footprint?
There are lots of diet plans out there. Atkins, Palm Beach, Jenny Craig, etc.
This is the first “food-free diet” I’ve ever heard of.
The Nazis were greenie enthusiasts and they also had a national diet program….
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Soylent?
No thanks. 😎
But such a life is where Obamacide is leading us.
As Ted Williams used to say: “This is getting re-god-damned-diculus”
David G says:
March 10, 2014 at 11:56 am
What an idiot, this man is worse than Bush!;]
Indeed. He’s a lawyer, and being a lawyer relies on “experts.” Also, lawyers are by and large advocates. At least mine had better be my advocate, otherwise he’ll be looking for another client.
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The dangers of DHMO. (http://dhmo.org/) That never gets old, does it?
it’s all in the packaging, not what’s in the package.
Maybe those trying to put makeup on the climate models could learn something….
Anthony-this food guidelines ties into this Risk and Vulnerabilities Assessment that Portland, Oregon has put up for Public Comment. http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/64079 . Other cities like Atlanta and the Twin Cities who are also aggressive on the Regionalism front are likely to push something similar with just different pictures.
Also notice the other document on page 13 gets to the heart of what is really behind the refusal to let CAGW go, whatever the temps or weather conditions. “How Does this Strategy Advance Equity?” With equity defined in terms of Marx’s vision of a human development society. “Equity is when everyone has accesss to the opportunities necessary to satisfy their essential needs, advance their wellbeing and achieve their full potential.”
Meanwhile in the real world…
My daughter is at university. They offer care packages to students through the school. I did not sign my daughter up, and she thanked me. Today I get the mail and find this letter regarding an extension of the program. I had to laugh. I left out the university name, but if anyone wants to know I will give the info.
D’oh! Link didn’t work, http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj81/iamzelkova/image_zpsd87afea5.jpg
The second document at that link. The Climate Change Preparation Strategy, lays out on page 61 the philosophy behind the supposed stress on Food Systems and the declared resulting need for Food Security.
I (foolishly) believed there was a guideline that required an analysis of the BENEFITS as well as of the costs of any new regulation.
If EVERYONE in the US switched immediately to the new diet (and agriculture adapted to the new norm), and we stayed on it for 10 years, how much of a temperature reduction would be achieved?
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I suppose that would depend on how many of the 98.6°F mobile furnaces would be reduced to ambient temperature.
“What an idiot, this man is worse than Bush!;]
Indeed. He’s a lawyer, and being a lawyer relies on “experts.” ”
No, not quite. He’s a Hahvahd lawyer. Never expected to have to work a day in his life. So far, it appears that he never has.
goldminor said:
March 10, 2014 at 1:08 pm
It must be spring time. The insanity is blooming rapidly. I hope it doesn’t start taking over the rest of the garden.
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and the flowers bloom like madness in the Spring
Paul Coppin says:
March 10, 2014 at 2:55 pm
“What an idiot, this man is worse than Bush!;]
Indeed. He’s a lawyer, and being a lawyer relies on “experts.” ”
No, not quite. He’s a Hahvahd lawyer. Never expected to have to work a day in his life. So far, it appears that he never has.
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Come on, now- cut him some slack. He’s on vacation.
I suppose a key requirement we be that we all have to stop eating corn so that the whole crop can be made into bio-fuel.
In the not too distant future the USA will have vast net migration out of the US. It will be the “land of the enslaved and the home of the very frightened. “
And so continues the ongoing process of the government alienating those of us who do not conform to its ideological premises.
Now, more than ever, every aspect of government science is tainted and now controlled by ideology , political preferences and even a willing tool of propagandists. This is horrible corruption. It is not so bad that people who wear the mantle of “smartest people in the room” do this, but look at how many useful idiots swallow their claims, even when the truth is as close as a Google search on their personal ObamaPhone.
Does this mean that Michelle is going to give up the $50 a pound Kobe beef she thinks the proletariat should pay for?
Great. More dietary advice from the same geniuses that gave us the “Food Pyramid” that told everyone to eat 14 portions of carbs every day.
David G says:
March 10, 2014 at 11:56 am
What an idiot, this man is worse than Bush!;]
David G,
You just figured this out NOW???!!!!
Where have you been, for the last 8 years or so????????
@Cold in Wisconsin –
ALL green energy policies ultimately result in burning more fossil fuels than if there were no green energy – up to 15 percent more fossil fuel must be burned to produce the same gross amount of electric power when there is wind or solar, as in a system with no wind or solar (for spinning reserve, which burns fuel but isn’t feeding power into the grid, and inefficient quick start units that burn 2 to 4 times as much to generate the same power output – all necessary to prevent the grid from collapsing when the wind stops or the Sun goes behind clouds).
The whole green meme is a fallacy and a criminal waste. And as for der Fuehrer’s “dietary guidelines,” I’d tell him to stick ’em where the Sun don’t shine, and lay off propagandizing kids. Reprehensible beyond reprehensible.
All that will be left to eat is Stone Soup; hold the bread, meat, and vegetables.
http://www.stonesoup.com/the-original-stone-soup-story/