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Protecting the dairy industry in upcoming Dietary Guidelines for Americans

A U.S. Senator from Wisconsin wants to protect the dairy category in the Biden administration’s upcoming updates to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Tammy Baldwin tells Brownfield she wants any changes to the DGA to be science-based. “I want to make sure that they don’t group non-dairy products along with dairy in those guidelines,” she says.  “Because if a parent goes to the store to buy milk so their kid can have healthy bones, they have to know that milk and imitation products are not the same.”

Baldwin says by including imitation products in the dairy category, it could equate those products nutritionally. “It’s simply untrue,” she says. “Imitation products often contain much lower protein, and they have added sugars compared to real dairy.”

Baldwin and a bipartisan group of Senators, James Risch (R-ID), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Peter Welch (D-VT), recently sent a letter to the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture urging them to carefully consider any changes to the guidelines.  

AUDIO: U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D, Wisconsin)