You can call BS, but you're wrong.
When Atkins and South Beach were at their peaks a year or two ago, the USDA was reviewing the pyramid. The corn and wheat lobbies were all over the place, even placing ads on local televison (we get tons of lobbyist ads in the DC market. Beef wasn't nearly as aggressive - they didn't need to be, everyone was buying into high protein, low carb. Corn and wheat had sponsored articles in the Post, the Times, all over.
If you really doubt the power of the corn lobby, look at the ethanol requirements. They don't really solve any problems enviornmentally, but we're all required to use it now.
NEVER trust anything that the gov't puts out as required or "recommended". It's always cash-based.
OK,
then are you saying all my nutritional assessments are wrong?
That humans don't need 30cc of fluid per KG of body weight, or they don't need 35gm of fiber (ideally). That women are best served by consuming 1500mg of calcium a day or that most need around 15mg of iron? That the standard of .8 kg of protein for an average healthy individual is wrong and that 50% of kcal from CHO is based on myth? All this ties back into the recommendations and the way we right diets and menus.
Are you saying that the ACA recs for plant based plates is money driven? Same with the AHA and ADA? That we just made all this up for money?
And on and on and on. Honestly, if the 30% of professionals I know were writing the FP today, there would be very little animal on it. But that's more from working with sick people and bad diets. That's from hearing more than one diet history where there were almost no fruits or veges, but lots and lots of meat, fat and sugar.
Look, I accepted a long time ago that being an RD AND being on FR was like being a Wiccan at a tent revival. Unwelcome and unwanted. :) So I avoid these threads.
But I love my job, I believe in what I do and I believe in the results that I see on a daily basis. And I do see positive results which makes glad I chose this profession. Even though I'm WAY underpaid.