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Dietary Guideline Committee ‘Quadruples’ Down on Moving Americans to ‘Plant-Based Diets’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | July 18 2014 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 07/18/2014 2:35:32 PM PDT by PoloSec

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To: PoloSec

I can see at the cashier, after swiping my card for purchase a readout saying, “Purchase denied, remove meat items from your order.”

Upon seeing that, you decide to pay by cash and the cashier says, “We no longer accept cash.”


21 posted on 07/18/2014 2:53:47 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
If meat prices keep going up, we won’t have a choice.

Backyard chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, aquaponics, pigeons, feral hogs, suburban whitetails ....

22 posted on 07/18/2014 2:54:10 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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To: MrB; ilovesarah2012
Why do you think meat prices are being driven up?
23 posted on 07/18/2014 2:54:13 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("Every American should feel outrage at any injustice done to our veterans " -Sarah Palin 5/26/14)
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To: PoloSec
activist who advocates for social justice in the food system

Can we bring Treason back for supporting Communism? I think these people deserve the death penalty!

24 posted on 07/18/2014 2:54:20 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: WVKayaker

They don’t want us using THAT, either.


25 posted on 07/18/2014 2:55:51 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
Why do you think meat prices are being driven up?

Ethanol!

Another looney liberal idea.

(anyone notice a trend here?)

26 posted on 07/18/2014 2:56:26 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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To: oldbrowser

How long? That would be just before those arresting people are hunted down like dogs.


27 posted on 07/18/2014 2:57:33 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: raybbr

That’s a she?


28 posted on 07/18/2014 3:00:41 PM PDT by grimalkin (We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: jsanders2001

Borsch and rye bread. Keep you weak enough to not riot.


29 posted on 07/18/2014 3:00:50 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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To: PoloSec

This carnivore has a dietary suggestion for the committee which serves as my response to their nanny-state suggestion: “Eat s*** and die!”


30 posted on 07/18/2014 3:04:12 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: PoloSec

Soylent Green here we come - the ultimate in environmental protection...


31 posted on 07/18/2014 3:14:46 PM PDT by greatvikingone
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To: PoloSec

Low protein = Low brain function.....


32 posted on 07/18/2014 3:15:05 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Will someone please post this cunt’s email address


33 posted on 07/18/2014 3:15:30 PM PDT by Mugwump
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To: PoloSec

My diet IS plant bases...cows eat the plants, I eat the cows.


34 posted on 07/18/2014 3:15:45 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: raybbr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_E._Nelson

Apparently spawned somehow....


35 posted on 07/18/2014 3:17:47 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: PoloSec

Treating us like cattle.


36 posted on 07/18/2014 3:19:47 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: PoloSec

I love vegetables...most of them at least...and always have.I love fruits and grains as well.But nobody,not even my doctor,will ever get me to give up beef,chicken,pork or lamb.


37 posted on 07/18/2014 3:26:21 PM PDT by SayNoToDems (Will the dancing Hitlers please wait in the wings? We're only seeing singing Hitlers.)
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To: raybbr
Here's something for you to eat, Miriam.


38 posted on 07/18/2014 3:29:31 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: GraceG
"Low protein = Low brain function.....

Guaranteed!

39 posted on 07/18/2014 3:33:53 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: PoloSec

People need calories. Calories are especially important for development of young, immature brains. Meat is called ‘brain food’ for a reason. Meat products are calorie-rich, vitamin-rich foods. Lettuce is not a calorie-rich food and one must eat a variety of produce to ingest the same variety of vitamins or amount of protein found in a single 3-oz serving of meat. And if the produce isn’t fresh, then even more has to be ingested.

Meat on the hoof is water-efficient (one to two gallons per day per hundredweight), labor-efficient and requires no fertilizer or insecticides (unless you count fly sprays). Their urine is a weedicide and their excrement is a rich fertilizer. All parts of meat carcasses can be used for food or fertilizer products, so there is no waste.

Many crops are water-intensive and only a small part of the plant can be consumed as food, so much more water is wasted in unuseable slash.

Crops generally require huge amounts of land, labor, farm equipment, fertilizer, weedicides, and insecticides to produce the same amount of calories as a single steer provides. In California, for instance, the almond crop and peach crops require transport and import of over 80% of all honeybees in the USA just for pollination. Meat products don’t need bees or a lot of farm equipment, and can produce more calories and more vitamins on less land.

Not all produce lends itself to preservation and most preservation is labor-intensive. Produce spoils readily, and so most produce is picked unripe, sprayed with chemicals to bring on color and then cold-stored for months, degrading vitamins and flavor but enabling transport to supermarket shelves. Meat preserves beautifully and so is a sensible food source. Beef is not ‘picked green’ and, unlike vegetables, ageing beef can improve the flavor.

Humans are carnivores. We have carnivore teeth. Our teeth are made to shred, not grind. Our stomach and intestines are made to process meat. Would you feed a lion oatmeal? Or a shark tofu? Then why try to force humans into an unnatural and unhealthy diet? Eat meat and save the planet!


40 posted on 07/18/2014 3:35:49 PM PDT by blueplum
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