The federal government recently decided that it would not include environmental impact when updating the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), which they do every five years. Sylvia Burwell, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, co-authored the guidelines and announced the decision on October 6. Their reasoning: while the sustainability of our food choices is important, “we do not believe that the 2015 [Dietary Guidelines