mercredi 15 juin 2011

Action Alert: Tell Washington to Save Healthy School Lunches | TakePart - Inspiration to Action

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Lawmakers on the House of Representatives committee that allocates taxpayer dollars for federal spending recently approved a 2012 spending plan that would turn back decades of progress toward creating a healthier and more sustainable food system for all Americans, according to Health Food Action, a project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

A vote by the full House on the measure could come at any time today or tomorrow. Healthy Food Action urgently alerts anyone concerned about protecting rigorous safety and sustainability standards to call their lawmaker today and ask them to vote no on H.R. 2112.

According to Healthy Food Action, HR 2112 would:

- Cut funding for the first new nutritional standards proposed in 15 years for school breakfasts and lunches.

- Prevent the FDA from restricting the widespread use of antibiotics in feed for farm animals, which the FDA, CDC, and WHO all acknowledge contributes to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.

- Direct USDA to scale back its participation in an interagency effort to develop voluntary guidelines for companies that market food to children.

- Cut nearly $1 billion from farm conservation funding that supports cleaner soil and water for healthier food production. The bill would even force USDA to break contracts it has already signed with farmers enrolled in existing conservation programs.

- Cut more than $40 million for research programs that support better environmental stewardship, improve food security in vulnerable communities, and create more robust local and regional food systems (broadly speaking part of the USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative) including pilot projects in community-supported agriculture, grass-based livestock production and organic agriculture.

- Cut more than $6 million for a grant program that enhances food choices for consumers by supporting products produced in a manner that enhances value, such as “local” or “grass-fed.”

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