On the 19th of April, the USDA unveiled a brand new pyramid scheme - food pyramid scheme, that is. They have a way you can get your own personalised food pyramid at http://www.mypyramid.gov/.
Other than the normal stupidities it reflects, I was particularly horrified by two things. Here it rather absurdly claims:
(I never thought of the toxins, random chemcials, hormones, and antibiotics as "nutrients". At least they don't claim those missing nutrients to be essential.)USDA Morons
Clicking that text on the provided link leads, via another link, to this wisdom:
I was a little bit too upset at this point to read much further. The only good thing about all of this is that the new pyramid scheme is so complex, that I would guess few people will bother figuring it out.USDA Morons
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