WASHINGTON, D.C.(DRGNews)- The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is disappointed by some of the changes that are proposed in the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

Janet de Jesus with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says one suggestion for the United States’ new dietary guidelines is moving beans, peas and lentils from being a subgroup of the Vegetable category to being a subgroup of the Protein category “to align with evidence to encourage plant sources” of protein.

NCBA President and Wyoming rancher Mark Eisele (eyes-lee) calls the trend to push people away from meat and toward plant-based proteins “terrible.”

Eisele says cutting back on beef consumption won’t make Americans healthy again.

The report also recommends reorganizing the order of the Protein Foods Group. It suggests putting beans, peas and lentils first; nuts, seeds and soy products second; seafood, third; and meat, poultry and eggs, last.

NCBA will be submitting comments to the federal Agriculture Department and to the Health and Human Services Department… and Eisele encourages cattle producers to do the same.

The comment period on the proposed 2025 dietary guidelines is open until Jan. 16, 2025. The public is invited to present oral comments to the Departments when they meet again next month (Jan. 16, 2025).