The Farm Bill: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You

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The below important action alert effects the future health of our entire country and the lives of billions of animals. Please take a moment of your time to act. Animal agriculture has a strangle hold on the federal budget. Because animal agriculture uses our tax dollars and our nation's schools as a dumping ground for high fat/cholesterol animal based foods, our nations children will grow up overweight and conditioned to eat animals. Let's break this vicious cycle now. Please contact your US Senator at:www.senate.govThank you, MargaretVegetarian Network of Dallas Physicians Committee for Responsible

Medicine (PCRM) Dear Ms. Morin, Ever wonder why cheeseburgers are so cheap? Or why school cafeterias still serve more meatloaf and hot dogs than fruits and vegetables? The answer may surprise you. The Farm Bill, America’s primary federal food policy, keeps high-fat, cholesterol-laden pork, beef, cheese, and other unhealthy animal products cheap and widely available. That’s why I hope you’ll take action today to help spread the word about PCRM’s new hard-hitting Farm Bill commercial. The Farm Bill doled out more than $70 billion in food subsidy payments from 1995 to 2005, and more than three-quarters of that money went to producers of meat, sugar, oil, dairy, alcohol, and feed crops used in meat production. Fruit and vegetable farmers received less than 1 percent of government subsidies. To make matters worse, the federal government purchases Farm Bill surplus foods like cheese, milk, pork, and beef for distribution to food assistance programs—including the National School Lunch Program. As you may know from my previous e-mails, the House of Representatives made only

minor changes to the subsidy system when it passed its version of the bill in July. Now that the Senate Agriculture Committee is expected to begin marking up its version of the Farm Bill in October, PCRM and other groups are calling for sweeping changes. PCRM has been calling attention to the problem with a new television ad about the Farm Bill, which directs people to StopChildhoodObesityNow.org. Our ad has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, MSNBC.com, and many other media outlets. As the bill comes before the Senate over the next month, I’ll need your help to send a strong message about reform. Here’s how you can help: Watch PCRM’s new Farm Bill ad on YouTube. Make sure to share it with your friends! Forward this e-mail to your friends and family and let them know why they should care about the Farm Bill, too. Call and e-mail your senators. Urge them to make healthy changes to the Farm Bill. I’ll be contacting you again in the next few weeks with more updates on the Farm Bill and more details about how you can help as the bill moves through the Senate. Thank you so much for your support and help in reforming the Farm Bill. As always, please feel free to contact me at kash if you have any questions. Best regards, Kyle AshLegislative Coordinatorkash Donate NowJoin PCRM or Renew Your Membership Kyle AshLegislative Coordinatorkash Read more about the 2007 Farm BillWatch PCRM's Farm Bill commercial on YouTubeStop Childhood Obesity NowLook up your elected officialsSubscribe to future PCRM e-mail communications Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine5100 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Ste. 400 Washington, DC 20016 Phone: 202-686-2210E-mail: info Forward this message to a friend Un from PCRM e-mail communicationsView this message as HTML in your browserChange your e-mail preferences

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