Our children deserve REAL FOOD and the time is NOW

Would you eat this for lunch?

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 According to the USDA this one is also "nutritionally" balanced

 Please help (one last time) to pass the school foods bill

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Letter from: 

Margo G. Wootan
Director, Nutrition Policy
Center for Science in the Public Interest (http://www.cspinet.org/)

I know that we’ve asked repeatedly for your help with the school foods bill over the last few years.  Hopefully, with your help, this will be our last request and the bill will pass soon.

The landmark child nutrition legislation before Congress will help improve the nutritional quality of school lunches, get junk food out of school vending machines, and support strong nutrition and physical activity policies and practices in schools and child care settings.

Congress is finishing up work for this session and remarkably, child nutrition is at the top of the agenda.  However, there are still a number of barriers to passing the bill.

Please write your Congressional Representative today and ask them to pass the bill.  You also can help by passing this alert onto colleagues, friends and family – we need all the help we can get in this final push to pass the bill.

Thank you for your continued support of this effort to promote healthy eating for children.

All the best,

Margo G. Wootan
Director, Nutrition Policy
Center for Science in the Public Interest

USDA and Domino's Pizza: USDA Issues Dietary Advice on Cheese to Boost Pizza Sales

Dear Phil from Dominos (and other industry bloggers),

Thanks for commenting on my blog...very much appreciated.

However, I'm still confused. When I went to the Dairy Management Inc website (http://www.dairyinfo.com/) there's nothing there but links to dairy promotions.

There's no email address, no board member names or annual reports. There's not even an email to contact anyone. There's just an address and phone number for Rosemont, IL, a bunch of links promoting dairy and the giant logo with all the dairy lobbying groups with a tag line that says, "DMI helps build demand for dairy on behalf of dairy producers....The dairy checkoff program......does not use any government or taxpayer dollars to promote dairy products in the United States."

Wasn't the USDA created to subsidize farmers (especially dairy)? Certainly appears to be an interesting "partnership" to me.

Sadly, American children have never been fatter or sicker and we can't seem to figure out why.

Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire

p.s. The Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) helps exporters of U.S. dairy products meet prevailing world prices for targeted dairy products and destinations. Under the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture pays cash to exporters as bonuses, allowing them to sell certain U.S. dairy products at prices lower than the exporter's costs of acquiring them. The major objective of the program is to develop export markets for dairy products where U.S. products are not competitive because of the presence of subsidized products from other countries.
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USDA and Domino's Pizza: USDA Issues Dietary Advice on Cheese to Boost Pizza Sales

Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire

What?!?!?!?!?! Of course Dominos would have a reading list to support your "association" (I mean partnership) with the USDA and dairy farmers. So here's some "misreported facts" from the other side of the story. It's funny. I have no financial interest in getting people to "choose" a certain food. Do you?

BTW - The USDA was created to subsize farmers (ie. dairy industry, etc.) not to provide "nutritional" advice. It's strange, we Americans can't seem to figure out why we've never been fatter or sicker. Got any ideas on how that could be?

http://www­.hsph.harv­ard.edu/nu­tritionsou­rce/what-s­hould-you-­eat/pyrami­d/

www.theeth­icalnag.co­m

http://www­.turntheti­defoundati­on.org/

http://www­.foodpolit­ics.com/

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