Action Alert: Support School Nutrition, S. 771 Needs Your Help Today

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Action Alert: Support School Nutrition, S. 771 Needs Your Help Today

Action Alert: Support School Nutrition Take Action!

 

Child Nutrition Act Added to 2007 Farm Bill

 

The Natural Products Association has been a strong supporter

of S. 771, the Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act.

Introduced by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), this act would update out-of-date

nutritional standards in U.S. schools, and re-define " food of minimal

nutritional value. " The definition was last updated in 1979. Since then,

Americans' food options and knowledge about nutrition has changed dramatically.

It's time that change was reflected in the definition.

 

Recently, Senator Harkin and Senator Murkowski (R-Alaska)

worked together to add an amendment similar in language to S.771 to the 2007

Farm Bill under a series of provisions aimed at improving nutrition in the

United States. Unfortunately, the Farm Bill is currently stalled in the Senate

under the threat of filibuster. While Senators Harkin and Murkowski are doing

everything they can to get this legislation off the ground, they need the

support of their fellow senators to get this important amendment back on track.

 

If a senator has already sponsored S. 771, that is an

indication that they would be supportive of the amendment in the Farm Bill. If

they are not sponsors, that is all the more reason to ask for their support for

this important amendment.

 

With this in mind, the association is asking all its members

to contact their senators about this bill and the amendment. Please enter your

zip code in the box below. We'll find your senators and indicate whether or not

they have signed on as a co-sponsor of this bill and give you an appropriate

sample letter to send depending on whether your senator is a sponsor or not. (If

you only see one letter, that means both of your senators have the same position

on the bill. Hitting send will send a letter to both).

 

If your senators have not signed on, we'll provide you with a

sample message to send your senators asking for their support of the Child

Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act, S. 771 and the related Farm

Bill amendment.

 

If they are supporters, we will provide a sample letter for

you to send to your senators thanking them for their support for S. 771 and

asking for their support of this bill as an amendment. Thank-you letters are

some of the most effective ways to show our legislators that their efforts make

a difference to those who care about the nutrition of our school children.

 

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