NHMRC Draft Dietary Guidelines Released

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The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released draft dietary guidelines for public comment.

Please look at Australia's new dietary guidelines which are open for public comment before the end of February:

http://consultations.nhmrc.gov.au/open_public_consultations/dietary-guidelines

Please make submissions. The National Health and Medical Research Committee needs to hear from animal friendly people. Two points are critical, first vegan and vegetarian diets are discriminated
against with constant and often ignorant and silly warnings from health "professionals" and no encouragement, in spite of being demonstrably healthier than the normal Australian diet and
secondly, the lack of any consideration of environmental issues, in spite of this being promised when the revision of the Guidelines was announced.

Crikey.com.au published an article by Geoff Russell on the Guidelines:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/18/who-owns-the-new-australian-dietary-guidelines/

It is also available on the Animal Liberation (SA) Blog:

http://animalliberation.org.au/blog/123-who-owns-diet-guidelines.html with a nice big graph on the end!