The following report is by ZeroHedge:
In yet another example of the nanny state’s intrusion into the private lives of its citizens, President Biden’s so-called ‘alcohol czar’ revealed to Daily Mail that the United States Department of Agriculture could soon revise its booze guidelines to a meager two drinks a week.
George Koob, director of the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said the current alcohol intake guidelines are up for review in 2025, which recommend women can have up to one bottle of beer, a small glass of wine, or a shot of liquor per day while men can have two.
Koob was asked in what direction would the current guidelines change. He responded, “I mean, they’re not going to go up, I’m pretty sure,” adding the USDA could revise its alcohol recommendations to match Canada’s guidelines, where people are advised to two drinks per week.
While these new guidelines are being discussed, he said updated versions might not be published until 2025.
“The debate about whether alcohol is good in low amounts has been around for decades, but increasingly studies show that even a small amount can harm your health,” Daily Mail said.
Koob’s interview comes after a study recently published in JAMA Network Open found an increasing number of Americans are drinking themselves to death.
… and it’s not just booze. Since Covid, middle-aged adults 35 to 50 (prime-age workers) have been consuming higher and higher amounts of marijuana and hallucinogens.
Koob pointed out there were “no benefits” to drinking alcohol in terms of improving overall health. He said:
Most of the benefits people attribute to alcohol, we feel they really have more to do with what someone’s eating rather than what they’re drinking.
So it really has to do with the Mediterranean diet, socio-economic status, that makes you able to afford that kind of diet and make your own fresh food and so forth.
With this in mind, most of the benefits kind of disappear on the health side.
Good luck getting the majority to comply with these guidelines since ‘Bidenomics’ has driven many working-class folks to the bottle.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
No way are people are going to following this whatsoever, but this is what our tax dollars are being spent on, for some goober to tell everybody what they can and cannot drink.
While this is not like Prohibition (the 18th Amendment, repealed in the 21st), we can still learn from history. Prohibition did not solve any problems but only increased drinking and drunkenness exceedingly, and when repealed allowed for the likes of Miller, Busch, and Budweiser to monopolize the industry and make beaucoup bags of cash.
You cannot legislate something that is a personal liberty granted by the word of God. This is the government overstepping their bounds, clearly.
[20] For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. [21] It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. [22] Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. [23] And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Romans 14:20-23
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Why would they even float that idea, only 2 per week lol, there arn’t enough jail space to house the vast majority of people that will brake that rule, LOLOLOL
I don’t drink anymore so I’m safe right, NO to much meat lol
These wacko’s ever think about anything…….???