THE red meat industry has called on the Federal Government to scrap plans to introduce an environmental sustainability element of the national dietary guidelines.
A review of the Australian Dietary Guidelines is currently underway after the Federal Government allocated $2.5m in funding to the National Health and Medical Research Council. NHMRC is now seeking applications for a “sustainability working group”.
Many in the red meat industry have raised concerns about the idea of conflating environmental sustainability with dietary guidelines. The main fear is that it will expose the…
