Exactly like a bunch of 10-year-olds on the playground

The hub­bub over the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture's retract­ed tweet sup­port­ing "Meat­less Mon­days" con­tin­ues.

Last week, Repub­li­can Iowa sen­a­tor Chuck Grass­ley's made a tongue-in-cheek promise to com­pen­sate for the rec­om­men­da­tion by eat­ing an extra help­ing of meat. PETA respond­ed with a death pool, tak­ing bets on how long it would take for Grass­ley to "suc­cumb to heart dis­ease, dia­betes, can­cer, or some other meat-related disease."

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