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Mooshell's Food Nazis on the March Again. Will you be eating meals like the ones she forced your children to eat?? Go to the link below to view photos of her mandated school lunches.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... lunch.html

Rather funny (NOT) since so much $100 a lb wagyu beef is served at political events. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/29/ob ... gyu-steak/

Now here is her diet plan for you. You Wanna celebrate too ?? Helpful Hint:: Texans, change the BBQ sauce to make your fish cookouts more palatable

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... -fed-fish/

Where’s The Beef? USDA Removes Beef From Healthy Diet, Now Promotes Organically Fed Fish
Chef Charles Hill poses for a picture as he holds a Canadian certified organic farm-raised King Salmon at the Wegmans, Friday, April 10, 2015 in Fairfax, Va. Organic fish is certified in the EU and Canada because the US doesn’t have any standard. After more than a decade of delays, the government is moving toward allowing the sale of U.S.-raised organic fish and shellfish. But don't expect it in the grocery store anytime soon.
AP/Alex Brandon

by Alex Swoyer16 Apr 2015Washington, DC0

The USDA is proposing regulations for seafood, following its controversial regulation proposal on beef.

The Agriculture Department is set to propose new standards for farmed organic fish within a year.

“That means the seafood could be available in as few as two years — but only if USDA moves quickly to complete the rules and seafood companies decide to embrace them,” Associated Press reports.

But the agency quotes individuals from the farm fish industry who worry the fish feed requirements may be too strict and a financial burden.

But on the other hand, environmental groups complain that the new regulations wouldn’t be strict enough.

This isn’t the first time proposed regulations from the USDA are causing a controversy.
Just last month, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) criticized the USDA for its proposed regulations on beef.

“I am asking the same question thousands of school kids in North Dakota and across America will be asking: ‘Where’s the Beef? Sacrificing sound science and denying the nutritional benefits of lean red meat to satisfy an extreme environmental agenda is woefully misguided,” said Cramer.

According to Cramer, the regulation strays “from purely nutritional evidence and venturing into areas like environmental sustainability and tax policy.”

Cramer, along with 70 other Congressmen, issued a letter March 31st to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA to ensure its final 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans comply with guidelines previously passed by Congress and are based on sound nutritional science.

beef...it's what's for dinner..

50 years ago the fish I caught from the LI sound were delicious. Striped bass, Bluefish, Porgies, Blackfish, Blowfish,Flounder... Maybe Connecticut has cleaned up there act a bit but the damage from years of environmental damage have made the local fish stocks not worthy to eat. The Lobsters are GONE.

Just to make an incidental point I won't eat any fast food fish, and any fast food meat including chicken is only taken in small doses. Farm fish TASTE awful. Half the beef out there is poisoned. Forget about chicken.
Thank God we have another powerful government agency like the USDA telling us our food is safe. The FDA and the state of California can't be far behind.

Just a thought... The best meat I have tasted in years was wild ELK, shared by an old hunter. Not USDA or FDA approved. Just good pure meat approved by me.

Now here is her diet plan for you. You Wanna celebrate too ?? Helpful Hint:: Texans, change the BBQ sauce to make your fish cookouts more palatable

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... -fed-fish/

..Slacker, I hate punching on links, so I am guessing that ultra neo-con site (breitbart) is maybe referring to the
Asian Silver Carp (jumping carp) infestation, and when a technilogical breakthrough happens which would be the ability to make grass carp palatable, it will be a blessing to impoverished people all over the world, as a good cheap and plantiful protein source..I say good show, since as I remember carp are too bony to eat unless you steam them like a can of tuna..

Dayne - The link in your quote is the same one copied into the original text of his post..

While I think some attention needs to be paid to the feeding methods of farmed fish, leaving it to the FDA or USDA (or government in general) will mainly result in large profits for huge food corporations and higher prices for the consumer...as usual.

Farm raised fish, especially in many foreign countries are fed things fish normally wouldn't eat, and due to overcrowding are usually pumped full of antibiotics to reduce disease in the tanks and other chemicals including pesticides. I can't find the links now, but in some foreign countries farmed fish are being fed animal wastes from places like fish and chicken farms, which brings along all the antibiotics and chemicals from those farms... And in many fish farms GMO grains are the typical feed, most fish don't normally eat grains. Their wild diet is either live bait fish or vegetable matter from plants and algae. Not genetically modified grains...

Interesting articles here about farm versus wild fish

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... facts.aspx

http://www.drperlmutter.com/5-reasons-a ... ised-fish/