Farm state senators defend meat on government menus
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 southwest Iowa, Ernst recalls the work was tough—and not always pretty. “My family took extraordinary...