U.S. FOOD BOARD: BAD TO THE BONE

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Human Events:

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is building a new food pyramid with fruits, plants and dairy as the prime ingredients.

 

Beef and poultry are nowhere to be found.

 

“This is all (BS),” said John Dale Dunn, a policy adviser to the market-based Heartland Institute.

 

Targeting Angela Tagtow, the new executive director of the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Dunn declared, “She and every one of her allies in the campaign to promote ‘healthy’ eating have nothing to work with except their enduring interest in telling people what to eat and how much.”

 

Richard Williams, a former Food and Drug Administration official, said the USDA is chasing “food fads.”

 

“’Food sustainability’ is a loaded phrase. Talking about ‘free range and buying local’ while pushing home canning doesn’t have anything to do with diet,” Williams