Help get soy milk in schools

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You all may have already seen this alert, but I

wanted to pass it on just in case.

 

The SPECIAL NUTRITION PROGRAM, part of the FOOD

AND NUTRITION SERVICE, under the USDA, has

extended its comments period about adding

fortified soy and rice milk alternatives to the

public schools' food programs.

 

Once the SPECIAL NUTRITION PROGRAM hears from us

(and unfortunately, from others like the dairy

industry too), they will draft a legislative

proposal for Congress asking Congress to amend

the Child Nutrition Acts to hopefully include

milk alternates.

 

Please call and fax to support adding fortified

soy and rice milk to the food programs in our

public schools. (If we don't accomplish this

now, it might be another 3 or more years before

we get another chance...we are currently so

close to reaching this goal that it would be a

shame to let it slip through our fingers! :-) )

 

Peter Murano, Associate Deputy Administrator

Special Nutrition Program

USDA Food and Nutrition Service

3101 Park Center Drive

Room 510

Alexandria, VA 22302

ph.: 703 305 2052

fax: 703 305 2782

 

 

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