This just in from the NANA Coalition at CSPI. /AS

 

This week, the Senate is expected to take up the Agriculture Appropriations bill in both the full and sub-committees.

 

If you believe appropriate [addition mine],  activate your members to contact their Senators (or/and send emails to your own Senators) urging them to drop the bill’s anti-science rider that would undermine the 2015 Dietary Guidelines. Please also share via social media (samples below) on this issue.  Although the Senate language is less damaging than the House bills, any Congressional interference with the DGAC’s scientific conclusions is unwarranted and a terrible precedent.

 

Our take-action for your use as a model or to refer members is here: http://action.cspinet.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1927&ea.campaign.id=39823

 

For background see:

·         Talking points: http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/talking%20points%20DGA%20Approps.pdf

·         An organizational sign-on letter from 69 leading public health organizations: http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/Sign-on%20Letter%20Against%20DGA%20Riders%20in%20Approps.pdf 

·         A fact sheet (http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/Fact%20Sheet%20on%20DGA%20Approps%20Riders.pdf) and background memo (http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/Memo%20on%20DGA%20Riders%20in%20Approps.pdf) on the rider

·         A campaign finance analysis related to the riders: http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/riders_and_dga_campaign_finance_analysis_final.pdf  

·         A letter from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: http://cspinet.org/new/pdf/Letter%20to%20Committee%20from%20the%202015%20DGAC.pdf

·         Attached is a letter from the Office of Management and Budget, which opposes the use of the appropriations process to introduce language that interferes with evidentiary standards. 

·         An op-ed from The Hill published last week is here: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/246679-leave-the-science-alone-on-dietary-guidelines-2015 

 

For more information, please email Laura MacCleery: [log in to unmask].

 

 

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Members of Congress have slipped a rider into annual spending bills that would freeze the Dietary Guidelines at their 2010 recommendations, even while diet-related diseases and obesity continue to harm too many Americans’ health.  A new edition of the Guidelines is due out later this year.  Scientists spent 20 months reviewing new studies to provide updates to the 2010 Guidelines, but the proposed rider would throw out their work and block new science-based recommendations.  The Dietary Guidelines are used as a framework for local, state and national health advice and programs and should use the most updated science available.  Please write to Congress today and help us stop this anti-science rider!  http://action.cspinet.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1927&ea.campaign.id=39823

 

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·         Who should write the government’s nutrition advice?  Scientists … or politicians? http://bit.ly/1gt0knt

 

·         Who do YOU call with questions about diet?  Doctors and dietitians? Or politicians? http://bit.ly/1gt0knt

 

·         Senate riders interfere with Dietary Guidelines and should be dropped. http://bit.ly/1gt0knt

 

·         Congress seeks to roll back scientific progress and do favors for Big Food at kids’ expense. http://bit.ly/1gt0knt

 

·         Report by @CSPI links anti-science Appropriations riders with campaign contributions http://bit.ly/1eN4Zzo

 

·         Tell the Senate to oppose the harmful riders that would undermine the Dietary Guidelines. http://bit.ly/1gt0knt