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Congress To Nutritionists: Don't Talk About Environment
2014-12-15 09:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A government-appointed group of top nutrition experts, assigned to lay the scientific groundwork for a new version of the nation's dietary guidelines, decided earlier this year to collect data on the environmental implication of different food choices. Congress now has slapped them down. Lawmakers attached a list of "congressional directives" to a massive spending bill that passed both the House and the Senate in recent days. One of those directives expresses "concern" that the Dietary Guidelines...
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