Senators Urge Biden Administration To Protect Potato’s Status as a ‘Vegetable’
The senators claim a proposed change to classification of the potato would ‘confuse consumers, retailers, restaurant operators, farmers, and the entire supply chain.’
A group of senators is petitioning the United States Department of Agriculture to not reclassify potatoes as a grain, a measure that the Department of Agriculture has been considering in its new 2025 to 2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
In a letter to USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, Senators Cramer, Bennet, and Collins opposed reclassifying the starchy root vegetable, saying doing so would “confuse consumers, retailers, restaurant operators, farmers, and the entire supply chain.”
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