A Clean Bill of Health

a clean FARM BILL of health

America is not eating well.And we’re all paying for it.

Each year, diet-related sicknesses cost$72 billion.Half of this due to people not eatingenough fruits and vegetables. cancer heart disease diabetes stroke

Our government suggests we eat healthy, balanced meals.

But farm bill spending doesn’t reflect theserecommendations.

$33.1 billionspent oncommodity crops corn soybeans cotton rice wheat

$4.3 billionspent onspecialty crops fruits nuts vegetables

Shifting 10% ofcommodity subsidiesinto fruit & vegetablepurchasing programs

Shifting 10% ofcommodity subsidiesinto fruit & vegetablepurchasing programswould pay fordoubling fruits &veggies in US schoolfood programs.And meet proposed newUSDA school lunchguidelines.

This farm bill willshape our nation’s healthfor the next 5 years.

Let’s get the farm billin shape – now.Support local, sustainablefruit & vegetable farmers.

For info on how you can help out:Environmental Working GroupFood & Water WatchFood + Tech ConnectJohns Hopkins Center for a Livable FutureSustainable Table

RESOURCESThe $33 billion & $4.1 billion we mentioned were spent from 2008-2010.Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Adolescents and Adults in the United States: Percentage MeetingIndividualized Recommendations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654704Produce for Better Health Foundation, The Fruit and Vegetable ConsumptionChallenge:http://www.pbhfoundation.org/pdfs/about/res/pbh_res/2010gapanalysis.pdfEWG farm subsidy database and unpublished EWG research on fruit, nut and vegetable spending.“Healthy School Lunch: Pay Now, Save Later”:http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2011/01/healthy-school-food-pay-now-save-laterFor more info, contact Kari Hamerschlag (kari@ewg.org) Rebecca Klein (rklein@jhsph.edu) clean BILL of health is a product of the Farm Bill Hackathon and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at farmbillhack.wikispaces.com on Dec. 4, 2011; created in a collaboration by Jamie Leo, Trey Shelton, Peter Krohmer, Illya Bomash, and Henry Lau, with the onsite support from Rebecca Klein of Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and Kari Hamerschlag of Environmental Working Group. Additional support from GRACE Communications Foundation.

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