This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

The USDA is also the government organisation that writes nutritional guidelines in the USA. This is especially concerning as it means that they are not only responsible for the creation of adverts promoting dairy consumption but they also advise people on how much dairy to consume in the first place. Which could possibly explain why the USDA still recommends adults consume three servings of dairy a day, while the Canadian ideal food plate has removed dairy as a food group altogether, and even though it is still listed as a protein source, there are no recommendations for how much to consume or that you even need to consume it at all. To make matters worse, Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which is funded by the USDA-managed dairy checkoff programme, works with schools and fast-food chains to increase overall dairy consumption. For example, DMI has worked with McDonald’s to increase the size of cheddar cheese slices by more than 30 per cent in some of their items and with Pizza Hut to add 25 per cent more cheese to their pan pizza. They also created a pizza with Domino’s that contained as much as two thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat.27 So the government department that creates the nutritional guidelines and advises people how to eat healthily also works with the farming industries to promote their products and get more of them sold in fast-food chains and restaurants.