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Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by ck2 » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

every single gov website is being hijacked for propaganda

one by one

completely untrustworthy

I fully expect weather .gov at some point to be taken over, nothing is sacred with these a-holes

https://404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a...

impeach them all

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by ainiriand » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

Half the pyramid is dairy+meat, that's a pass for me. I do not eat those and my yearly health checks are as boring as a tax seminar on a Friday afternoon.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by micromacrofoot » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

stef25 wrote: post #692

kristopolous wrote: post #581

Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK... Here's industry reports https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/doctors-group-applauds-comm... https://www.wattagnet.com/business-markets/policy-legislatio... And straight up lobbying groups https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-dietary-guideline... https://www.meatinstitute.org/press/recommend-prioritizing-p... Lobbying groups, putting out press rel…

It's crazy how people are incapable of seeing something positive in the actions of the tribe they don't belong to.

There are a number of lies and omissions here, as there have been from just about every administration due to agribusiness lobbying.

You're playing the tribalism game by setting up this strawman, you too are being played.

I'd personally be just as critical towards anyone who claimed they were fighting a "war on protein" that plainly doesn't exist. Americans consume more meat per capita than nearly any other country.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by cassepipe » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

> For decades we've been misled by guidance that prioritized highly processed food, and are now facing rates of unprecedented chronic disease.

Is this true ? I don't think the blame is to place on the previous guidance but people just you know food engineering and natural laziness, no ?

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by markvdb » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

Why would I trust these recommendations? Much higher quality dietary information is available from much more trustworthy sources than the US government du jour.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by swatson741 » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:18 PM UTC

I dunno about this. The problem mainly affects low-income families and residents of food deserts, and now the government is trying to put everyone on a keto diet. It just seems like they're not fixing the problems where they happen.

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by roland35 » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:21 PM UTC

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #191

For all the lunacy of RFK this somehow is actually a really good set of guidelines? Certainly better than the previous version. I didn't expect that to be honest.

There is some good health advice mixed in with the rest of the MAHA lunacy, particularly around diet and exercise.

Unfortunately their stances on vaccines, supplements, and mental health make are still awful

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by cramcgrab » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:21 PM UTC

You can eat what you want, I’m eating real food. Good luck!

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by mythrwy » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

cies wrote: post #814

lopis wrote: post #768

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The moment I saw whole milk and a huge steak in the intro, I knew this website was not to be trusted.

Milk is very unhealthy, in any quantity. Meat is as well. Maybe organic in small quantities, not too often can help. Fish is problematic as much is contaminated with mercury and other heavy metals (we poisoned the ocean).

If milk if unhealthy in any quantity how did we all survive infancy?

Re: Eat Real Food

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Post by TZubiri » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #581

Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK... Here's industry reports https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/doctors-group-applauds-comm... https://www.wattagnet.com/business-markets/policy-legislatio... And straight up lobbying groups https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/new-dietary-guideline... https://www.meatinstitute.org/press/recommend-prioritizing-p... Lobbying groups, putting out press rel…

>Tyson foods and other meatpacking companies lobbied and funded RFK.

So? They are fighting fire with fire.

Or should sugar,casino and tobacco industries have all the lobbying

Also this doesn't surpass the minimal threshold for being shocked anymore, there's more critical shit going on, I can't be here being outraged at checks notes meat companies pushing that meat is healthy