Questions remain about Big Food’s influence on the new dietary guidelines
Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Dec. 29, 2020
Advocates and experts point to a pattern of corporate influence on the nation’s “go-to source of nutrition advice”
When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Agriculture (USDA), released new Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Dec. 29, 2020, they looked almost identical to the ones released five years earlier. There were new guidelines related to pregnancy, breastfeeding, and children under two, but to those who’d been paying attention to the process, what stood out was what had not changed.
Most glaringly, the guidelines failed to take up key recommendations from the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the group of experts responsible for preparing a detailed report intended to inform the final guidelines. This year, that document was 835 pages long and included recommendations for lowering the amount of recommended daily sugar from 10% of one’s daily calories to 6%, as well as limiting alcohol consumption to one drink a day for both men and women.
Boycott #Nestle
impact of corporate influence over the “the nation’s go-to source for nutrition advice” by HHS, the dietary guidelines that affect the entire food supply chain: what is produced, consumed, and eaten — especially by food-insecure Americans.is hard to quantify, it’s worth a look into the many points at which food companies — and the trade groups they pay to do their lobbying — may have impacted this latest process.
Was nestles the corp that pushed baby formula on third world nursing mothers who did not have access to clean water for the formula mixture;
Great question!
YES, IPLCase Study Of Nestle’s Baby Formula
https://www.ipl.org/essay/Nestles-Infant-Formula-Product-Case-Study-P3UNS82PC486
1973
The New Internationalist published an exposé on Nestlé’s marketing practices in 1973, ‘Babies Mean Business,’ which described how the company got Third World mothers hooked on baby formula.
Social rights groups began dragging the industry’s exploitative practices into the spotlight in the early 1970s.
Nestlé baby milk scandal has grown up but not gone away [ ARTICLE more than 8 years old]
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nestle-baby-milk-scandal-food-industry-standards
They titled the report “Nestlé Toten Babies” (or Nestlé Kills Babies), which a Swiss court found was libelous. On the substance of the argument, however, the judge warned Nestlé that if the company did not want to face accusations of causing death and illness through sales practices such as using sales reps dressed in nurses’ uniforms, they should change the way that they did business.