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EWG farm subsidy database and unpublished EWG research on fruit, nut and vegetable spending.“Healthy School Lunch: Pay Now, Save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 (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.