MyPyramid

The USDA appreciates the wonderfully consistent advice from nutritionists and food science professionals over the last 50 years. The USDA considers each of your reports, studies and conclusions with the respect they deserve.

We have incorporated your advice where possible and appropriate, which has mostly consisted of internal memorandum or report appendices exceeding 120 pages in length. It would not be politically possible to include your straight-forward recommendations in our public information at this point in time, which has been our consistent position for the last 50 years. The American consumer expects freedom of choice while selecting what they will eat and freedom trumps science in this case (this case being the food industry's need for greater profits). If you can work out the science to support the needs of the Agribusiness industry, then we'll gladly publish whatever you come up with!