I mean, I have no qualms against not eating meat. I think we all could benefit from it.But for the Department of Energy- he has far more power to influence our power distribution systems and resources- over people's eating habits.If you read up on Dr. Chu's personality- he's sort of an impatient person- in that he wants to get results fast. Getting 300 million people to change their eating habits is worlds more difficult than shuffling a few billion dollars to direct where industry should go.If people are shouting socialism/facism/nazi because the administration is overseeing CEO pay for the banks that took bail out money, imagine the ***** storm that would happen if they started telling what we should eat. I'm sure he would love to float the idea, but I'm pretty sure when he brought the idea up at a cabinet meeting- every other advisor just had flash backs of teaparty demonstrations and obama with a hitler mustache with swastikas eeeeeeeeeeeeeeverywhere. I'm not saying you're wrong- I'm just saying that given the circumstances, it's not the most efficient use of the office.