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.
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NRG22 says: @ur momisugly 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?
Jimbo says: @ur momisugly March 10, 2014 at 3:37 pm
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. “
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I have been calling it the “land of the regulated and the home of the wimp. “
And just today a friend and I were discussing the best places to immigrate to.
Janice Moore says: @ur momisugly 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.
Power Grab says:
March 10, 2014 at 7:37 pm
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?
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I wonder how many kiddies are jumping out of their skins because the fatty sheaths around their nerves are disintegrating.
Mom was put on a no-fat diet by a doctor and had that happen to her so I am not kidding when I say that.
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.
Wish I could edit, typo above should be parents.
Cannibalism Now- Eat Your Greens
Oh, Gail Combs I am so GLAD that you saw my post. Thanks for responding. I will let you know (of course, trying to let anyone know anything here can take days!) when (if) I get that memorandum done.
If others end up reading it and critiquing that basic law memo that would be great. I am not, however, going to enter into any such discussion (except to answer your questions … very carefully…). Such a public conversation could far too easily cross over the line into “legal advice” (upon which someone might successfully argue he or she had a right to rely and did to his or her detriment…it’s a pretty subjective standard) for me. It could be done, but, in this setting, I’m not going to risk it.
And, thanks for the encouragement, but I will definitely NOT ask A-th-ony to post it as a main post.
Please forgive what will, no matter what, be a long delay until you hear from me on this matter again.
Janice
P.S. Sure hope you guys got that heater running before nightfall yesterday. Take care and keep warm!
@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.
P.S. Gail Combs – You are a resource! Keep up the GREAT work.
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.
I suggest a lobby group to promote a carbon free diet. It can go with a proposal to ban dihydrogen monoxide from all schools. I’d love to see how far they got.
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.
“the planet hasn’t warmed since the Clinton Administration”
That hadn’t occurred to me before…….we may be on to something here?
By the way we Brits get our B12 from Marmite as well.
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. 🙂
Gail: What do you think about the Codex…Alumentarious (sp?)