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Tom Barrett: “I got a MRE one day that was a chicken mre and on the…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Healthy America Speaker Series with Secretary Kennedy and Congressman Tom Barrett

Published | Video Starts at 41:54

Like the tennis. Thank you. Apparently, I left the army at the wrong time, so we didn't have the new. The new food yet. I got a MRE one day that was a chicken mre and on the package it said artificial grill marks. So I'm like, I don't know what that means, but it didn't sound good. So. But for our Farm Bureau friends, for Ben in particular, I know you got probably a lot of thoughts about this. (41:54–42:03)

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Asserts that a military MRE package indicated it had artificial grill marks.

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