Much has also been written about the politics behind the USA’s dietary guidelines. For example, the statement “decrease consumption of meat,” found in the first edition of the US Dietary Goals in 1977, led to the meat industry demanding an immediate revision and the removal of the word “decrease.” When the second edition came out in 1977, the statement read “choose meats […] which will reduce saturated fat intake,” which was changed again in 1980 to read “choose read meat.” By the 1990 edition, the phrase change again, to “have two or three servings of meat […] with a daily total of about 6 ounces.” Note how the government’s phrasing evolved, from explicitly telling consumers to eat less meat in 1977 to explicitly telling them to eat meat – two or three servings in fact – by 1990.