The House of Representatives recently passed the Defense Department Appropriations Act with an amendment that said meat will remain an option for members of the military.
The amendment was offered by Nebraska Republican Adrian Smith, and it prohibits the Defense Department from excluding meat in its food service program manual.
The U.S. Coast Guard had cut meat consumption among its cadets by ten percent over three years, and that prompted concerns of potential meat cuts among other service branches.
Smith said, “Meat contains vitamins and nutrients not available in a plant-based diet.
The amendment is not a mandate or prohibition; it simply says there will be a meat option for our service members each day.”
Both the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and National Pork Producers’ Council applauded Smith’s efforts to make sure anti-meat activists can’t decide what our military can and cannot eat.
