Exhibit 541

Letter from Reps. Hartzler, Conaway and other House members to Secretaries Vilsack and Burwell

Exhibit 541 · Congressional letter

Letter from Reps. Hartzler, Conaway and other House members to Secretaries Vilsack and Burwell

not the wider policy realm of sustainability and tax policy, in which members of this committee had neither expertise, evidence, nor charter.

Seven-page signed letter. Says the DGAC 'greatly exceeded their scope' and that the DGAC's lean-red-meat recommendation 'directly contradicts years of peer reviewed scientific research.'

Source: U.S. House of Representatives (Members of Congress)
Date: 31 March 2015
Quoted from: p. 1
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://agriculture.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ag_dietaryguidelineslettertosecsvilsackburwell.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding AGR-4.4: Primary record In 2015 the House Appropriations Committee wrote that the advisory committee's report "included extraneous factors and policy recommendations that are outside of the statutory requirement, such as agriculture production practices including sustainability, taxes, food labeling and marketing policies." Public Law 114-113 section 734 then barred release of the 2015-2020 guidelines unless each guideline "is based on significant scientific agreement" and "is limited in scope to nutritional and dietary information." On 6 October 2015 Secretaries Vilsack and Burwell announced that sustainability would not be in the guidelines "because this is a matter of scope."