a clean bill of health
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“FARM BILL of Health” was produced as part of the Farm Bill Hackathon. Designed by Jamie Leo, Henry Lau, Illya Bomash, Peter Krohmer and Trey Shelton, the presentation compares “My Plate” recommendations with government support to farms.TRANSCRIPT
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 eating enough fruits and vegetables.
cancerheart diseasediabetesstroke
Our government suggests we eat healthy, balanced meals.
But farm bill spending
doesn’t reflect these
recommendations.
$33.1 billion spent on commodity crops corn
soybeanscottonricewheat
$4.3 billion spent on specialty crops
fruitsnutsvegetables
Shifting 10% of commodity subsidies into fruit & vegetable purchasing programs
Shifting 10% of commodity subsidies into fruit & vegetable purchasing programs would pay for doubling fruits & veggies in US school food programs.And meet proposed new USDA school lunch guidelines.
This farm bill will shape our nation’s health
for the next 5 years.
Let’s get the farm bill in shape – now.
Support local, sustainable fruit & vegetable farmers.
For info on how you can help out:
Environmental Working Group
Food & Water Watch
Food + Tech Connect
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Sustainable 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 Meeting Individualized Recommendations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654704
Produce for Better Health Foundation, The Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Challenge:http://www.pbhfoundation.org/pdfs/about/res/pbh_res/2010gapanalysis.pdf
EWG farm subsidy database and unpublished EWG research on fruit, nut and vegetable spending.“Healthy School Lunch: Pay Now, Save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-later
For more info, contact
Kari Hamerschlag ([email protected])
Rebecca Klein ([email protected])
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.