(O. Kay Henderson) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is taking “informal bets” on how Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley might die.

“Senator Grassley, like anyone who eats meat, is gambling with his own health,” PETA spokeswoman Ashley Byrne said during a telephone interview with Radio Iowa this afternoon.

The betting on Grassley’s cause of death is PETA’s push-back against Grassley for his criticism of a USDA employee who called for “Meatless Mondays” in the agency’s cafeterias. Grassley promised, via Twitter, to eat more meat on Mondays to counter that “stupid” idea.

“If someone is going to boast about the fact that they are consuming large amounts of a product that has been proven to increase your risk of having a heart attack or a stroke or getting cancer, being obese, contracting diabetes, you know, then they’re really gambling with their own health,” Byrne said this afternoon.

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