Math for Meatheads

Do they think meat-eaters are stupid?

CBSnews.com reports: “Some big changes are coming to raw meat and poultry products sold at grocery stores, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced (on March 1). Under a new rule that goes into effect March 1, packages of raw meat - whole, ground or chopped - will carry nutrition fact labels.”

CBS quotes Dr. Elisabeth A. Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety at the USDA, who says, “Under the new rule, a package of meat that says it's 85 percent lean will now say right next to it that it contains 15 percent fat.”

Wow, that’s some incredibly obvious information there (these are worse than Walmart’s Great For You labels). Do the bureaucrats think people are going to read the labels and be like, “Whoa! Meat has fat in it? Forget it, I’m going vegetarian!”

(Emphasis mine)