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faber was talking about the entitlements in the upcoming farm bill and one of the st statistics he quoted, which was incredibly dismaying was that $142 billion is being earmarked as subsidies and entitlements for already successful farming operations and insurance che companies which could don t need the money. but are getting it. i m wondering if any of the money being proposed for those entities could be allocated back toward school lunch and programs that would help improve nutrition in schools by retrofitting kitchen, training personnel and creating regional distribution systems to get more fruits and vegetables from local area farmers. sorry for the long question. anyway. there you go. the second question is a little easier for me to answer, respond to. not sure where he got those numbers. he s raising the issue of how we spend agricultural dollars broadly. let me say, the annual budget of the u.s. department of agriculture is in the area of around $150 billion. $105
food education and educating people on how to know what to do? i think the study i referred to, just released yesterday or the day before, by the economic research service, encouraged people to look at it. because it s very compelling. they look at food costs by calorie, by volume, by portion. and obviously timeliness is another factor in all this, but they they point out fruits and vegetables among food groups are the least costly and the economist i know at the briefing i was at, compared the price, the number of calories in a doughnut versus a medium sized banana, and the banana being less expensive than that doughnut and far healthier for you. so there are a number of very practical source of messages that way, but i want to say on that access to healthy foods, we re very mindful, and bill referenced this in his remarks, we re very mindful of the access question. i know that in the food stamp or the s.n.a.p. program, about in excess of 90% of food stamp recipients h