Comments on: Follow up on Food Pyramid http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3459 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Roger Pielke, Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3459&cpage=1#comment-1016 Roger Pielke, Jr. Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:14:38 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3459#comment-1016 Relevant NYT article today on the food pyramid: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/weekinreview/24seve.html? Excerpt: "Jeanne Goldberg, director of the Center on Nutrition at Tufts University, worked on the original pyramid and said similar concerns surfaced then. "The headline was 'the foxes are guarding the henhouse,' " she said. "How can the U.S.D.A. be the lead agency in nutrition education if it's also the organization responsible for protecting the commodity groups? I think it's tough."" Relevant NYT article today on the food pyramid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/weekinreview/24seve.html?

Excerpt: “Jeanne Goldberg, director of the Center on Nutrition at Tufts University, worked on the original pyramid and said similar concerns surfaced then. “The headline was ‘the foxes are guarding the henhouse,’ ” she said. “How can the U.S.D.A. be the lead agency in nutrition education if it’s also the organization responsible for protecting the commodity groups? I think it’s tough.”"

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