Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently released a new food pyramid for dietary guidelines and commissioned a report justifying those guidelines. The report was reviewed by several individuals with financial ties to food companies as well as beef and milk industries’ trade groups, according to The Lever. “The updated guidelines put high-protein diets based on meat and milk atop the food pyramid, despite Americans already overconsuming those protein sources based on previous guidelines.”
PAUL SHAPIRO; [email protected]
Shapiro is the author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World.
Shapiro writes: “The vast majority of meat and dairy produced in America comes from animals who lived on factory farms. There are some commendable aspects of the new dietary guidelines, but urging more meat [and] dairy consumption [isn’t] among them.”
Shapiro told the Institute for Public Accuracy: “The new federal dietary suggestions ignore what public health experts have been correctly saying for years: enjoying more whole-food plant-based foods and less meat would be major improvements for Americans’ wellbeing.”