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Food Management Staff

September 1, 2004

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"Every aisle of the supermarket has a lobbyist in town. The pyramid has crumbled. The industry groups are warily circling and eyeing one another." -food industry consultant Jeff Nedelman, commenting on the tussle over the revised "Food Pyramid" (which may not be a pyramid at all) the government is considering. The dietary advice the pyramid conveys represents millions of dollars in sales won or lost for various food categories, hence the battle being waged in the corridors of the Agriculture Department (from the Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2004).

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