a primer on... the 1992 usda food pyramid the united states department of agriculture is known...
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Anthropology of FoodUniversity of Minnesota Duluth
Tim Roufs©2009-2010
Federal AgenciesRegulating Food
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a primer on . . .
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The 1992 USDA food pyramid
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The 1992 USDA food pyramid
the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture
is known widelyfor its “food guide pyramid” . . .
one of the most recognized logos in the world
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The 1992 USDA food guide pyramid
this is the old (1992) version
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Carol A. Bryant, Kathleen M. DeWalt, Anita Courtney and Jeffrey Schwartz
The Cultural Feast:An Introduction to Food and Society, 2nd Ed.
Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, 2003
the old (1992) version is on p. 82
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A comparison of the USDA Food Guide Pyramid and Vegetarian Food Guide Pyramid
this is the old (1992) version
The Cultural Feast, 2nd Ed., p. 82
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The current USDA food guide pyramid
this is the current version
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The current USDA food guide pyramid
see the “Food Guide” slide set or more information
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The current USDA food guide pyramid
the “Food Guide” is generally associated with the USDA
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Inflatable USDA Food Pyramid
http://www.ethnicfoodsco.com/Japan/JapaneseFoodPyramid.htm
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Inflatable USDA Food Pyramid
http://www.ethnicfoodsco.com/Japan/JapaneseFoodPyramid.htm
United StatesDepartment of
Agriculture
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by law, the primary mission of the USDA is
to promote U.S. agriculture
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the USDA should not to be confused withUnited States
Food and Drug Administration
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the
United States Food and Drug Administrationis responsible for regulating and supervising the safety of foods,
dietary supplements, etc.
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promotesU.S.A.
agriculture
regulatesU.S.A.
food safety
Inflatable USDA Food Pyramidwww.ethnicfoodsco.com/Japan/JapaneseFoodPyramid.htm
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promotesU.S.A.
agriculture
regulatesU.S.A.
food safety
and in addition there is the
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promotesU.S.A.
agriculture
regulatesU.S.A.
food safety
which is charged toprotect U.S.A.
human healthand the
environment
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EPAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epa
is charged toprotect U.S.A.human health
and theenvironment
but . . .
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EPAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epa
is charged toprotect U.S.A.human health
and theenvironment
but . . .a big question for them is . . .
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
human life was officially devalued
$900,000by the G. W. Bush
Administration
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
“The the EPA figure is not based on people's earning capacity, or their potential contributions to society, or how much they are loved and needed by their friends and family — some of the factors used in insurance claims and wrongful-death lawsuits.Instead, economists calculate the value based on
what people are willing to pay to avoid certain risks, and on how much extra employers pay their
workers to take on additional risks.”
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
“Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation,
the devaluation has real consequences.”
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
“Dan Esty, a senior EPA policy official in the first Bush administration and now director of the Yale
Center for Environmental Law and Policy, said that ‘it's hard to imagine that it has other than a political
motivation.’"
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
“When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh
the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the
government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.”
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EPAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFO
e.g., Factory Farming(CAFOs)
has environmental impactsand health risks . . .
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
“Consider, for example, a hypothetical regulation that costs $18 billion to enforce but will prevent 2,500 deaths. At $7.8 million per person (the old
figure), the lifesaving benefits outweigh the costs. But at $6.9 million per person, the rule costs more than the lives it saves, so it may not be adopted.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFO
e.g., Factory Farming
(CAFOs) and decisions affect animal welfare, food ethics . . .
EPA
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and to the listfederal regulatorsyou must also add
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promotesU.S.A.
agriculture
regulatesU.S.A.
food safety
is charged toprotect U.S.A.
human healthand the
environment
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention“works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions”
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10 July 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention
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promotesU.S.A.
agriculture
regulatesU.S.A.
food safety
is charged toprotect U.S.A.
human healthand the
environment
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention“works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions”
an excellent work that sorts all of this out is Marion Nestle’s
Food Politics
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promotesU.S.A.
agriculture
regulatesU.S.A.
food safety
is charged toprotect U.S.A.
human healthand the
environment
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention“works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions”
and, of course,
The United States Supreme Court
trumps everybody . . .
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10 July 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/01water.html?th&emc=th
for e.g.,
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10 July 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/01water.html?th&emc=th
and results . . .
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10 July 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/01water.html?th&emc=th
and results . . . more violations and fewer enforcement actions . . .
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
“When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh
the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the
government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.”
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10 July 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626294/
. . . and when tighter restrictions on pollution are attempted the affected parties
[legally] fight the regulations to the US Supreme Court.
Net result:the USDAand the FDAand the EPAand the CDC
[fill in the blank __________________]
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Marion Nestle
Food Politics: How the Food Industry
Influences Nutrition and
Health
University of California Press 2007
again, an excellent treatment of all of this can be found in . . .