Keep the Big Potato Lobby Out Of the WIC Program

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (also known as WIC) provides certain healthy foods to supplement the dietary needs of pregnant moms, babies, and toddlers to promote good health and development. The WIC food package is a medical prescription: the foods placed in the package are based on science and approved by nutritionists and health professionals.

But now Mr. Big Potato and the potato industry lobbyists are trying to throw those scientific guidelines out the window in order to make more money. They are trying to get the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that MANDATES that white potatoes be included in the WIC package.

Moms need to stand on the side of science and say NO to powerful lobbyists.  Write your members of Congress and tell them, “Stand up for pregnant women and babies. Protect the WIC program from special interests.”

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The WIC program serves close to 9 million low-income pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and young children who are at nutritional risk. It is one of the strongest and most effective tools our nation has to fight hunger and malnutrition.

For forty years the WIC food package has been determined by scientific research, and designed to provide foods deemed lacking in the diets of pregnant women, infants, and young children. The most recent scientific research review was conducted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to make sure that the recommendations were not biased in favor of one food product or another.

I strongly urge you to preserve and protect WIC’s scientific integrity, opposing efforts by some in Congress to dictate the food available in the science-based WIC food package, starting with potatoes.

The WIC food package helps millions of women and families. I hope you will stand with me in protecting and strengthening this important program.

 


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