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This week, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its 2020 to 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which continue to promote the consumption of three servings of dairy products which the Physicians for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) classifies as a form of dietary racism. The 1,200-doctor member group points to a 2018 resolution passed by the American Medical Association that recognized that lactose intolerance is common among many Americans, especially Black Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Furthermore, PCRM cites a number of studies that link the consumption of dairy at the level recommended by the Dietary Guidelines to increased breast cancer risk by up to 80 percent and risk of death from prostate cancer by 141 percent. PCRM notes that studies have shown that breast cancer death rates are 40 percent higher among Black women, compared with white women, and Black men are more likely to get prostate cancer than other men and twice as lik