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The Food Pyramid

Maintenance Phase

CHAPTER

The USDA Is on the Hook to Do All This Research

This is like a cancel culture story. It's all about holy shit. This lobby seems to wield so much influence. If you can derail an 11 year project, right? That's gnarly. So we're now moving into May of 1991. The secretary gives a statement to Time magazine saying everyone says I did this because the cattle and dairy industries, that's not true. 60% of our budget as an agency is devoted to nutritional programs,. No beneficiary of any of these programs was included in the focus groups that chose the pyramid symbol.

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