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#239666 by Badstrat
Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:27 pm
Guess what? A UN resolution passed in 2010 is now being considered under obastardcare. I just heard that they will be enforcing a vegetarian diet under the pretense of saving the planet and improving your health under the ((*&*&$^ healthcare laws. Great. My mom and dad died many years ago so I can't make proper diet decisions anymore by myself. This will be implemented.

Act 11:6 When I looked in it, I saw animals, wild beasts, snakes, and birds. I heard a voice saying to me, "Peter, get up! Kill these and eat them." But I said, "Lord, I can't do that! I've never taken a bite of anything that is unclean and not fit to eat."

Acts 2015: Then Peter added , but God, the food police claim that is bad for me and it will destroy the planet. To save me they will demand under law that I follow the strict diet etched in the Holy Grail of the CFFIFC . ( Complete F*&%#$G Fascist Idiots Food Committee ) They will monitor how much time I spend watching TV how much time I exercise, what my Dr has recommended for me (and if I am following it) , and on and on and on and on. Not so? Don't bet with anyone. That ungodly healthcare act is full fledged Marxist / Communist / Socialist control of you. All the leftist media propaganda outlets will be (Some already are) touting this crap. If you fail to comply you may not get treated if you get sick. What fool believes this is still a free country by the people for the people? ....... Go see your psychiatrist.

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2015pres/ ... 0219b.html

202-720-4623
2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee submits report

HHS, USDA now begin process of developing updated Guidelines; public comments sought

The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, a group of prestigious outside experts, submitted its recommendations to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, in order to inform the 2015 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Today, the Secretaries have released the advisory committee’s recommendations report online, making it available for public review and comment. HHS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will consider this report, along with input from other federal agencies and comments from the public as they develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015, to be released later this year.

“For decades, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have been at the core of our efforts to promote the health and well-being of American families,” said Secretaries Burwell and Vilsack in a joint statement. “Now that the advisory committee has completed its recommendations, HHS and USDA will review this advisory report, along with comments from the public—including other experts—and input from other federal agencies as we begin the process of updating the guidelines.”

The public is encouraged to view the independent advisory group’s report and provide written comments at http://www.DietaryGuidelines.gov for a period of 45 days after publication in the Federal Register. The public will also have an opportunity to offer oral comments at a public meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, on March 24, 2015. Those interested in providing oral comments at the March 24, 2015, public meeting can register at http://www.DietaryGuidelines.gov. Capacity is limited, so participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

The 14 outside experts who made up the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee are nationally recognized in the fields of nutrition, medicine and public health. The committee held seven public meetings over the past two years. The recommendations of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee are non-binding and advisory to HHS and USDA as they draft the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015.

The HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has the administrative lead for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015, which it carries out in close partnership with the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion and with support from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans was first published in 1980. Beginning in 1990, Congress mandated that HHS and USDA release a new edition at least every five years. The Dietary Guidelines contain the latest, science-based nutrition recommendations for the general public with the goal of preventing disease and promoting healthy, active lifestyles. It is written for and used primarily by nutrition and health professionals, policy makers and educators, and is the foundation for federal nutrition efforts, including education initiatives and food assistance programs.

http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/Engli ... 37117.html

Potential impact on the environment of an animal-based diet, and potential health and environmental benefits of moving to a plant-based diet

Petition: 339

Issue(s): Agriculture, climate change, and human and environmental health

Petitioner(s): Elena Gramma

Date Received: 29 June 2012

Status: Completed

Summary: The petitioner claims that livestock is a significant contributor to climate change and seeks information on the government's actions to educate Canadians on the potential impact of livestock on the environment. In addition, the petitioner asks about the government’s actions to research the potential health and environmental benefits of plant-based diets and to inform Canadians on the matter.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... -free-diet

Wednesday 2 June 2010 13.09 EDT Last modified on Monday 15 December 2014 08.00 EST

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A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today.

As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.

It says: "Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth increasing consumption of animal products. Unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives: people have to eat. A substantial reduction of impacts would only be possible with a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products."

Professor Edgar Hertwich, the lead author of the report, said: "Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels."

The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern, former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has also urged people to observe one meat-free day a week to curb carbon emissions.

The panel of experts ranked products, resources, economic activities and transport according to their environmental impacts. Agriculture was on a par with fossil fuel consumption because both rise rapidly with increased economic growth, they said.

Ernst von Weizsaecker, an environmental scientist who co-chaired the panel, said: "Rising affluence is triggering a shift in diets towards meat and dairy products - livestock now consumes much of the world's crops and by inference a great deal of freshwater, fertilisers and pesticides."

Both energy and agriculture need to be "decoupled" from economic growth because environmental impacts rise roughly 80% with a doubling of income, the report found.

Achim Steiner, the UN under-secretary general and executive director of the UNEP, said: "Decoupling growth from environmental degradation is the number one challenge facing governments in a world of rising numbers of people, rising incomes, rising consumption demands and the persistent challenge of poverty alleviation."

The panel, which drew on numerous studies including the Millennium ecosystem assessment, cites the following pressures on the environment as priorities for governments around the world: climate change, habitat change, wasteful use of nitrogen and phosphorus in fertilisers, over-exploitation of fisheries, forests and other resources, invasive species, unsafe drinking water and sanitation, lead exposure, urban air pollution and occupational exposure to particulate matter.

Agriculture, particularly meat and dairy products, accounts for 70% of global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use and 19% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, says the report, which has been launched to coincide with UN World Environment day on Saturday.

Last year the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization said that food production would have to increase globally by 70% by 2050 to feed the world's surging population. The panel says that efficiency gains in agriculture will be overwhelmed by the expected population growth.

Prof Hertwich, who is also the director of the industrial ecology programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, said that developing countries – where much of this population growth will take place – must not follow the western world's pattern of increasing consumption: "Developing countries should not follow our model. But it's up to us to develop the technologies in, say, renewable energy or irrigation methods."
#239668 by DainNobody
Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:25 pm
That ungodly healthcare act is full fledged Marxist / Communist / Socialist control of you. All the leftist media propaganda outlets will be (Some already are) touting this crap. If you fail to comply you may not get treated if you get sick. What fool believes this is still a free country by the people for the people? ....... Go see your psychiatrist.


come March 6, I think the right-wing fascists will be trying to take the subsidies away from those that need those subsidies and in the process will make it unaffordable to many citizens.,.

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