PCC public policy statements
Agriculture & farmland | Cooperative development | Food safety & irradiation | Genetic engineering | Meat & dairy | Nutrition | Organics | Pesticides | Seafood, oceans & water
Nutrition
July 19, 2007 — to the King County Board of Health. Testimony before the King County Board of Health, supporting a ban against artificial trans fat in restaurant food and to require nutritional information on restaurant food.
March 23, 2006 — to the U.S. Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, urging suport for a $5 million appropriation to implement “Access to Local Foods and School Gardens,” Section 122 of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act.
June 21, 2005 — to Washington's two U.S. Senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, Re: support for Farm to Cafeteria funding, Conservation Security Program funding, and Country of Origin Labeling.
May 18, 2004 — Thank you to Rep. Jim McDermott for signing on as a co-sponsor of HR 2987, to amend the National School Lunch Act to improve the quality of school food choices.
March 3, 2004 — to all U.S. Congressional representatives from Washington State to improve the nutritional quality of foods sold out of vending machines, cafeterias, fund-raisers and other venues at schools.
March 12, 2003 — Thank you to Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Re: support of good efforts to improve school food choices.
December 19, 2002 — to USDA, Livestock & Seed Programs, Re: Irradiated meat in National School Lunch program.
April 6, 2001 — Thank you to USDA Secretary Ann Veneman, Re: Support of food safety and consumer choice in school lunch program.