politics vs. science opposing the food pyramid 1991-1992
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1977 Farm Bill (Public Law 95-113) passed, giving USDA responsibility for a wide range of nutrition activities shared with DHEW (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) including dietary advice to the public.
USDA’s Human Nutrition Information Service (HNIS) developed nutritional guidelines & by 1984 developed the Food Wheel.
Pyramid’s demise and its larger significance for the USDA’s and the government’s favoritism to corporate interests was publicized repeatedly.
“Are cattlemen now guarding the
henhouse?”
“While the Food and Drug
Administration reforms
labels, the Agriculture
Department drags its feet,
thanks to its cozy relations
with the meat industry.”