Health and environmental experts are accusing the Obama administration of caving into the meat industry and its new dietary guidelines the federal nutrition standards for Public programs, school lunches, food labels and more. While the guidelines recommend consuming less sugar, they do not recommend eating less meat. This comes despite recent findings by the world health organization that processed meat causes cancer. Advocates are also condemning the government for dropping a proposed recommendation from the federal advisory committee that people eat an environmentally sustainable diet. This, too, would have led to recommendations to curb meat consumption, since me production uses for more water than other forms of food production.



