Cramer Asks USDA "Where's the Beef?"

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Today Congressman Kevin Cramer joined 70 of his House colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ensure the final Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) are based on sound nutritional science and comply to the DGA charter passed by Congress. One of the highlights of the proposed recommendations is the classification of lean red meat as not part of a healthy diet.

"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

The letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell comes in response to the 2015 Dietary Guideline's Advisory Committee's (DGAC) report which exceeds the scope of its charge by straying from purely nutritional evidence and venturing into areas like environmental sustainability and tax policy.

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