> -- USDA food pyramid. (The uneducated don't realize that the USDA (and hence the chart) is influenced and manipulated by the meat & dairy industries. Because

> -- USDA food pyramid. (The uneducated don't realize that the USDA (and hence the chart) is influenced and manipulated by the meat & dairy industries. Because the nutrition advice is officially published by the government and plastered all over school walls, it feels authoritative. Naive consumers don't realize that if the food pyramid was designed by nutritionists not financially linked to meat & dairy, they would place vegetables as highest priority.) Huh? Neither of the food pyramid[0] or its replacement[1] have meat and dairy as highest priority. Edit: The pyramid that came in between[3] does have milk at a similar size to vegetables, is this the one you take issue with? [0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Food_Pyramid.gif https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Foo... [1]: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/06/03/business/03pyramid-plate/03pyramid-plate-popup.jpg http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/06/03/business/03pyramid... [3]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/MyPyramidFood.svg/2000px-MyPyramidFood.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/My...