> In their legal complaint, PCRM argues that HHS and USDA assembled a "secret panel" that was "rife with conflicts of interest" and did not follow the long-established process for updating the guidelines.

> "The government allowed the meat and dairy industries to ghostwrite the Dietary Guidelines," PCRM President Neal Barnard, MD, said in a press release. "They put money in industry's pocket and cholesterol in Americans' arteries."