ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Mikkel Hindhede managed to get into a position where he came to hold the privileged position as advisor to the government. Hindhede acquired this position for a number of reasons grounded in the socio-cultural circumstances of Danish politics and in Hindhede's ability to speak the language of power in a very broad sense. Hindhede's statement about the priorities of nutritional policy was directly modelled on the low protein, high carbohydrate fare which formed the core of Hindhede's own nutritional discourse. Hindhede turned the world on its head in terms of food and nutrition and implicitly in terms of social and cultural hierarchies by constructing a food pyramid that dismissed meat and protein in favour of calories, wholegrain, bread and potatoes. The most controversial part of food policy was undoubtedly the slaughter of pigs, which was carried out on Hindhede and Mllgaard's advice during 1917-18.
