Harkin's latest push

Sen. Tom Harkin continues to remain active on child nutrition issues. In his blog-like commentary at The Hill, the Senate Agriculture Committee chair extols the fruit and vegetable snack program while vowing to require the USDA to update its school lunch nutrition standards and give the agency authority to regulate junk food.

Here is Harkin:

It’s time to restore our schools as places where parents can be confident that children receive foods that promote their health and learning. To that end, with my colleagues Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowksi (R-Alaska), I will again introduce the Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act. This bill would require USDA to update its archaic nutrition standards. And it would allow USDA to set standards for all foods sold in schools, regardless of the time and place that they are provided.


Amen, brother.


Meanwhile, here is a report about B.C.'s snack program.