[didibus]

Is it? The change in recommendation is to have less veggies in favor of more meat. From all the recent research and meta studies I've seen it doesn't track.

It's still decent a guidance, but the previous one was as well.

[hallole]

The first food group listed is literally meat and dairy. The ordering here is purposeful, too, as they admit. One promo graphic includes a block of butter and a carton explicitly labelled "whole milk." This is a very definite downgrade.

[cmoski]

Butter is king. It should be pictured with a crown, stars and glitter.

Surely whole milk is better than less-than-whole milk?

[keleftheriou]

Why is that a downgrade?

[ANarrativeApe]

"The first food group listed is literally meat and dairy."

that's because the pyramid is presented pointy end down.

[tomp]

You're literally just lying.

The first thing shown on the website is - broccoli.

The top of the pyramid includes both protein (meat, cheese) as well as fruits & vegetables.

The reason that meat is shown first is probably that it's the bigger change (it's been demonized in previous versions), whereas vegetables were always prominent.

[kristopolous]

And that's going to dictate nationwide purchasing policies for things the the 30 million school lunch meals, million prisoners...

This is worth millions of dollars a day and we're sold it as common wisdom from the mom and pop country doctor.

[troupo]

Kids in the US will no longer be served reheated pizza and chocolate milk?

Whatever the incentives, go for it

[spaceman_2020]

And here in largely vegetarian India, everyone is now pushing for more protein and meats because a vegetable-heavy diet has been awful for our public health

[Ar-Curunir]

Even if Indians ate 2x the meat that they do now, they wouldn’t consume anywhere as much as Americans do. Increasing meat consumption in America is not necessary.

India would do well to consume more protein, and the US would do well to consume less

[throwaway2037]

    > because a vegetable-heavy diet has been awful for our public health

I think the biggest health issue with India's vegetarian food is too many carbs.

[badgersnake]

Well if you cook the vegetables in litres of ghee that’ll happen.

[genewitch]

has your government published any science on this? being completely serious, i'd like to read it. Is India mostly vegetarian because of lack of access to farms/meats, religious reasons, financial, or what? I didn't know it was largely vegetarian. I don't know i had an idea of the ratio or that it would be different than any other country.

Apparently the Mediterranean also is largely vegetarian. at least the eponymous diet is.