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And just like that —still within the first week of the New Year— Secretary Kennedy dropped the latest anvil on Wile E. Democrat party. The New York Times choked down the story below the headline, “RFK Jr. Overhauls Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Dairy.” Red meat! It was basically the Democrats’ most terrifying worst-case scenario. Not so much because of what the new pyramid says, but because of what it means.



“My message is clear: Eat real food,” Secretary Kennedy said at a briefing rolling out the new guidelines. He might as well have said, eat more meat and fat. The new graphic “flips the food pyramid on its head, putting steak, cheese, and whole milk near the top,” the Times groaned. Sweets and grains now reside on the narrow bottom.

Say goodbye to our old friend the food pyramid, whose entire base could be described by the ingredients list in a box of Lucky Charms. That the old regime lasted as long as it did is a monument to bureaucratic inertia and regulatory capture.

The Times was not unaware of the ironic twist. “After years of being advised to avoid eating too much red meat and foods high in fats,” the paper admitted, “Americans are now being told to embrace them.” Surprisingly, the Times admitted the new guidelines were supported by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics (which is separately suing the Administration over its changes to the childhood vaccine schedule), and the American Heart Association. ...

For decades, the pyramid wasn’t just advice; it was an orthodoxy with a cash-flow spigot. It shaped school lunches, hospital trays, airline meals, food labels, supermarket configurations, and dinner-table guilt— all enforced by gold-star committees and white-coated prestige. Then came pandemic whiplash —masks, closures, shots, reversals, walk-backs— and whatever residual trust remained simply burned off like chicken bouillon left too long on the stove.

If you consider why the old food pyramid survived as long as it did, you’ll instantly recognize it was because of entrenched interests— namely, Big Food. Not only does the new system —which drives vast government expenditures in the form of school lunch programs, SNAP, and a legion of food subsidies— emphasize real food, it called for zero sugar for kids up to ten years old. (The previous limit was two years.)

Since anybody who’s been paying attention has already ditched carbs for more protein, it wasn’t revolutionary news. ...

The political disruption extends far beyond Big Food. Consider just the sudden vanishing of the war on meat. What happened to that particularly pestilential WEF mantra? For years, red meat was immoral, carcinogenic, cardiac-canceling and climate-criminal. Remember how collective cow flatulence was perpetually on the brink of literally destroying the planet? Now, all of a sudden, steak and whole milk are back on top, and this time nobody seems to be chaining themselves to a Chick-fil-A.

He might as well have said, eat more meat and fat. The new graphic “flips the food pyramid on its head

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