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TODAY: House Hearing on Child Nutrition

by: Jill Richardson

Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 06:00:00 AM PST

Today the House Education & Labor is holding a full committee hearing on child nutrition (including school lunch). You'll be able to watch it live at 2:30pm EST (11:30am PST) on the Education & Labor Committee Website.

Improving Children's Health: Strengthening Federal Child Nutrition Programs
Full Committee Hearing 2:30 PM, March 2, 2010
On Tuesday, March 2, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee will hold a hearing on strengthening the federal nutrition and school meal programs through the upcoming the child nutrition reauthorization. Improving federal child nutrition programs is one of the four pillars of First Lady Michelle Obama's recently announced "Let's Move" campaign to combat childhood obesity.
Witnesses:
Dora R. Rivas President of the School Nutrition Association, Executive Director of Food and Child Nutrition Services Dallas Independent School District Dallas, Texas
Carolyn L. Morrison President of the National Child and Adult Care Food Program Forum Chief Executive Officer of Child Development Services, Inc. Gresham, Oregon
Kiran Saluja Deputy Director Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. Irwindale, California

Additional witnesses to be announced.

Jill Richardson :: TODAY: House Hearing on Child Nutrition

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Link (4.00 / 1)

Live webcast link is at top right, in the menu bar.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 19:29:44 PM UTC

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Kline (4.00 / 2)

Ranking Member Kline, in his opening statement, comes out against specifying what food should be served to children in federally funded child nutrition programs.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 20:01:30 PM UTC

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you're watching? (4.00 / 2)

I can't get the media player to work. Please give us updates as you are able!

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

by: Jill Richardson @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 20:29:09 PM UTC

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bottled water (4.00 / 2)

The hearing is replete with expensive, wasteful plastic bottles of water on the witness table and the committee benches.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 19:52:00 PM UTC

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water at the health summit (4.00 / 2)

If you didn't notice, glasses of water were used at last week's health summit meeting, not bottled water.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 19:53:19 PM UTC

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Mr. Polis (4.00 / 2)

Representative Polis (sp?) notes recommendations from several major national organizations recommending less meat and more fruit, vegetables, and whole grain in school meals. Ms. Rivas says they're more expensive, reinforcing her advocacy of higher reimbursments. She is mum about why legumes and whole grain would be more expensive than meat.

Mr. Polis asks about non-dairy alternatives, Ms. Rivas says a carton of milk costs about 20 cents, a non-dairy alternative (almond milk, soy milk) can be 3 to 5 times more expensive.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 20:54:11 PM UTC

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20 cents (4.00 / 2)

This obviously is related to Jill's diary about the plight of dairy farmers.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 21:04:38 PM UTC

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Participation rates (4.00 / 1)

Much discussion so far about the desirability of increasing participation rates. No discussion so far about why panelists want to increase participation in programs that are making children sick.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 20:58:04 PM UTC

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Hearing's over. (4.00 / 1)

Gosh, that was only about 1 hour 15 minutes. Ms. Rivas was the major voice heard from. Ms. Saluja was all about the need to increase breast feeding.

by: count @ Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 21:16:17 PM UTC

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