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The real reason the gov needs to be involved with nutrition is schools. They can link funding to requirements that the school provide healthy food instead of cheap junk. But in order to do that, they have to have an "official" version of what's healthy and what's not. It would be nice to think that everyone involved with a school was in it because they had the best interests of the kids at heart and would spend the extra on real food, but it's just not so.
I remember one place I went to school there was a big lawsuit between the state and the school because the state was requiring them to offer milk at lunch and not just that but NON-EXPIRED milk at lunch. See, the school was getting expired (read: spoiled -- trust me, it was spoiled. blech) milk cheaper than fresh so they were trying to get around the state requirement by offering the cheap spoiled milk. It cost less and they didn't have to pay the electricity to refrigerate it. When they lost that suit, they started making everyone, whether they were drinking it or not, whether they were buying the school lunch or not, pay extra for milk every day. If you didn't pay, you got detention.
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