Des Moines Register
A substantial update to
WIC, the federal program that provides supplemental, nutrition assistance to at-risk pregnant women, mothers and their children, is nearing reality. For the first time since the program’s inception, fresh and/or frozen fruits and vegetables, soy milk and tofu will be available for purchase with WIC vouchers. And the USDA, which operates WIC, is proposing a
reduction in the allotment of dairy products and eggs that program participants can purchase with vouchers. Did the magnetic poles reverse?! What did we miss?!
Public comments on the proposed rule changes
are still open! Get yours in
before Nov. 6, 2006. All who are eligible for assistance through federally funded, food assistance programs should have the choice of nutritionally complete foods that don't derive from animal sources.
Read what others have already said in the
published comments from the Advance Notice period. We liked two submitted comments so much that we’re making them available without a need for search:
PCRM’s and 20–year RD/MPH
Carol Allwine’s.
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