The government must have read Chip and Dan Heath's stellar book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard as they have finally moved away from the terribly unhelpful food pyramid. However, they came up with a new plate image, which includes a round blob of dairy. The plate is decent (although vegetables and grains often have protein, so that's confusing). Why include the silly dairy? It's certainly not needed.

Counterpunch has a good story critiquing the new plate and calling out lobbyist groups' work on influencing the outcome.

update: The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has a much better plate they call The Power Plate.

Wow, if this is real I am scared. We should eat food that is unprocessed when we buy it.

Meatless Mondays, a movement that has legs

In more-positive news more people are taking on Meatless Mondays, including celebrity chef Mario Batali! Now if they only realized that it really needs to be plant-based Mondays. Other animal proteins are just as bad as meat!