Moms don't give up on kids, and Congress shouldn't either!

Pizza and french fries, five days a week?! Sadly, that’s the menu that some members of Congress want to bring back to school cafeterias.

Tell your member of Congress to put children’s health FIRST by maintaining strong nutrition standards for school meals and snacks.

Sign Today!

Dear Member,

I am writing to ask you to protect the recently updated nutrition standards for school foods from proposed provisions that would put children’s health in jeopardy. Ninety percent of schools report meeting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s updated lunch standards, and reducing the requirements would come at the expense of the 31 million students who consume up to half their daily calories at school.

USDA is listening to school leaders, parents, and students, and has already demonstrated that areas of concern—such as limits on servings of proteins and grains—can be effectively addressed without new legislation.

Promoting the health of the nation’s children must remain the top priority of the National School Lunch Program, just as it is for the vast majority of voters who support nutrition standards for foods served in schools. We know that strong school nutrition standards are an effective strategy to prevent childhood obesity and the lifelong health problems it can create. We urge members of the House Appropriations committee to avoid taking actions that weaken healthy meal standards so that we may continue the progress that so many schools have already demonstrated.

Please protect the strong, bipartisan nutrition standards for school foods to ensure that the healthy choice is the easy choice for our children.

Sincerely,

* First Name

* Last Name

* Email Address

Street Address

City

State

* ZIP

* required

Text alerts are optional, but a great way to stay up-to-date with MomsRising on the go!

Get SMS Alerts Standard text message charges may apply

Not ? Click here.

We'll keep you posted via email on this and other MomRising.org campaigns.

Add a Personal Message (optional)

Tell Your Friends About This Campaign

Enter email addresses separated by commas.
Click here to preview or add a note to your message to friends.

Subject: Join me! Tell Congress to put children’s health before politics Your message to friends:

Hello! I just signed a petition asking Congress to maintain strong nutrition standards for school meals and snacks. Will you join me? Sign on here: http://moms.ly/1nZfIcC. More information below!

==
Dear Friend

This is red-hot urgent! We need all hands on deck to tell Congress that pizza and french fries, five days a week, is not a menu we want in school cafeterias.

Tell your member of Congress to put children’s health FIRST by maintaining strong nutrition standards for school meals and snacks. http://action.momsrising.org/sign/Keep_School_Foods_Healthy/?referring_akid=5527.2157623.pEmqa8&source=taf

This week, some members of Congress are trying to weaken school lunch standards. So the clock is ticking to make our voice heard.

Now is not the time to go backwards! Just last year, parents, students, and many school leaders celebrated as the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated nutrition standards for school lunches for the first time in 15 years, ensuring that students eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains and avoid sugary snacks and foods that are high in fat or sodium. The vast majority of schools (90 percent) are already meeting the standards and serving healthy choices to the 31 million students who eat school meals every day.

It’s unfortunate that Congress is even considering blocking efforts to improve the health of the 31 million children served through these programs.

If we don’t act, Congress may weaken these standards and take our kids back to pizza and French fries every day of the week—instead of helping the struggling few schools meet the healthier standards, they want to lower the bar. Specifically, the proposed measures would allow schools to:

Exclude fruits and vegetables from meals
Serve meals high in sodium and low in whole grains
Sell foods full of sugar, fat and salt in snacks and a la carte lines without having to meet evidence-based nutrition standards
Delay or even prevent the implementation this fall of the Smart Snacks standards, which apply to foods and beverages sold outside of meal programs
Urge your member of Congress to protect our children’s health and fight pediatric obesity by maintaining strong nutrition standards for school foods. http://action.momsrising.org/sign/Keep_School_Foods_Healthy/?referring_akid=5527.2157623.pEmqa8&source=taf

Thank you! Together we're a strong voice for healthy schools,

- Karen, Monifa, Donna, Migdalia and the rest of the MomsRising.org team!

Add a short note (optional, up to 500 characters):

G-FKC1JKZLDL

Privacy Policy (the basics): We do not share the information you've given us with unaffiliated groups without your explicit permission. For petitions, letters to the editor, and surveys you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to members of Congress, the President, or other targets specifically noted on the signup page. We will send you updates on this and other important campaigns by email. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so. For our complete privacy policy, click here.