FVIAC - Food Stamp presentation

The link to the USDA page with slide presentations from the June 4-5 Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee is found here. When I was at the site this morning, however, there appeared to be a few broken links among the various slide presentations.

Here is the audio link to Clarence Carter, Deputy Administrator, Food Stamp Program, USDA Food and Nutrition Service. He talks some about the parameters of the program, how the program will likely be renamed, the rate of participation among eligible citizens (California is lowest with only 56% of those eligible participating), rejects the idea that food stamp participants are more prone to obesity and discusses the feasibility of trying to conform food stamp purchases to the national dietary guidelines.