[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 165 (Thursday, November 17, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H6290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   AMERICAN FOOD FOR AMERICAN SCHOOLS

  (Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, is there anybody among us here who does 
not believe our children ought to have nutritious, safe food in the 
schools, in the school nutrition program? I think we all do. However, 
you may not know that back home in your school districts that your 
school is using your taxpayer money to buy food grown in China or 
someplace else in the world. Is it safe? Maybe yes. Maybe no. You don't 
know.
  We are going to introduce a bill here, and I would seek the support 
of all the Members here. We call it American Food for American Schools. 
Why not? Why not American food in the school nutrition programs, the 
lunch programs? In our own area in Sacramento, California, the school 
district there decided they ought to buy Chinese peaches, yet the 
biggest peach-growing place in all the United States is the Sacramento 
region.
  Let's do that. Let's make sure that our students have nutritious, 
safe, American-grown food. So American Food for American Schools. Seek 
your attention to this; seek your support on this. I am quite sure the 
American public and parents and students would say: yeah, right on.

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