Dietary
guidelines in the U.S. are mostly bogus. They are not
grounded in health science because they were severely
influenced by lobbyists, not doctors. That's why, to
this day, they have heavily promoted eating
meat, dairy, and eggs — even though this is not
what's best for us or for the Earth.
As a result,
these guidelines have been fueling climate
change and wide-ranging health issues by
encouraging inappropriate levels of meat consumption for
generations. Yet so far, lobbyists have
successfully blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) from changing its dietary
recommendations.
Animal
agriculture is one of the absolute worst contributors to
climate change, accounting for a shocking 33% of
greenhouse gas emissions. It's also
responsible for poisoning our bodies, to the point that
the WHO has labeled meat as a
carcinogen.
So when the U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently attended the U.N.'s
COP28 climate conference in December, it seemed like the
perfect opportunity for the U.S. to address these
overlapping issues. Instead, Secretary Vilsack said he
wasn't particularly focused on curtailing meat
consumption as a solution to climate
change.
There is a fast and easy way for
the U.S. government to fight climate change and promote
human health. It must rewrite its previous
nonsensical, irresponsible dietary guidelines that had
promoted use of meat, dairy, and egg products. Sign the
petition
now!
