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SMM: A food and farm bill for school lunches
KQED public radio in Northern California played a story on Thursday about the farm bill and how it effects the lunch menu in public schools:
We've all heard the latest health advice: avoid transfats. Eat more fruits and vegetables. But for many school children, their cafeteria lunch menus haven't caught up. This year, an effort to get healthy foods to the school lunch table is tied up in a much larger debate-- national farm policy.
Enviroblog's very own Bill Walker comes in about halfway through. What does he have to say?
"It's the biggest political pork bill that's out there. Billions of dollars in crop subsidies go every year, mostly just to growers of a few select commodity crops: corn, soybeans, rice, wheat, cotton."
Have a listen and then, if you haven't already, contact your senator!
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