The government’s dietary guidelines draft is due in the next month or so and a spokesman with the North American Meat Institute says they are confident meat will keep its place as an important part of the American diet. Eric Mittenthal, who is also president of the Hot Dog and Sausage Council, tells Brownfield they have been actively monitoring the process and commenting on the value of meat.

“We actually did a white paper on meat processing that we

submitted to the committee because I think there’s a lot of misinformation

about how meat is processed and the ingredients that are used and how nutrition

is impacted with that.”

Mittenthal says the federal dietary guidelines, renewed

every five years, have long recognized the value of meat in the diet and he’s

confident they will continue to do so.

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