Politics vs. Science

Opposing the Food Pyramid

1991-1992

Basic 4 Food Guide

REF:http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/history/pat.htm

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.”

The staircase and stick figure represents the importance of exercise

ORANGE represents GRAINSGREEN represents VEGETABLESRED stands for FRUITS,YELLOW strip are OILSBLUE stands for MILKPURPLE for MEAT and BEANS

REF:http://www.mypyramid.gov/

The NEW Food Pyramid