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The government should set an example by making sure healthier and more sustainable entrees are available at its facilities, House members say.

Written by rjs, MarketWatch 666This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times).

Kill me now. Meat has become a new front in the culture wars.

Apr 26, 2021 Max Armstrong reports on a bill from Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, that would prohibit federal agencies from establishing policies that would prohibit eating meat by employees. Ernst has proposed the TASTEE Act for Telling Agencies to Stop Tweaking what Employees Eat Act – pushing back on groups that aiming to reduce meat consumption. Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This ...

TASTEE Act prohibits government from mandating Meatless Mondays or limiting meat for government employees. Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is pushing back against what she called the Left’s “War on Meat” and “Meatless Mondays” with new legislation. The TASTEE Act – or the Telling Agencies to Stop Tweaking What Employees Eat Act of 2021 – would prohibit federal agencies from establishing policies that ban serving meat for employees. Growing up on a rural family farm in south...

Senator Seeks to Ban Nonexistent Meatless Monday Policy at Agencies USDA in 2012 briefly encouraged employees to eat vegetarian once a week on a voluntary basis, but its cafeterias never stopped offering meat, and they are currently closed due to the pandemic. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, this week introduced legislation that would ban federal agency cafeterias from serving only vegetarian fare, despite the fact that no agency has ever actually done this and many food service facilities are...

Radio Iowa You are here: Home Ernst warns of pushback to price transparency bill for cattle markets Senator Joni Ernst. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is co-sponsoring legislation designed to foster more disclosure of the prices paid for cattle, as well as a bill to block federal agencies from promoting a “meatless” diet among employees. Ernst, a Republican who grew up on a farm near Red Oak, said these issues are important to her since her family raised hogs. “Here in Iowa, folks, we are all ab...