NYT: USDA sends decidedly mixed messages
(NEWSER) - The New York Times cries foul on the Department of Agriculture for being two-faced on cheese. On the one hand, the department warns people to cut down on saturated fats, like those found in dairy products. On the other, one of the department's very own marketing arms, called Dairy Management, works with fast-food chains and others to cram as much cheese as possible onto American plates. Case in point: It helped Domino's create a new line of cheese-heavy pizzas—each slice has two-thirds the daily maximum of saturated fats—and paid for the $12 million marketing blitz. More»
