More importantly, can you use WIC for liquor and beads???
In my state, here’s what women on WIC can buy: infant formula, cereal, fruit, eggs, milk, cheese, peanut butter, dried beans, tuna fish, and carrots.
The dangerous item on the list is tuna fish. Recent studies indicate that mercury-tainted tuna fish places children at high risk for all kinds of learning disabilities and other developmental problems. Yet, WIC is targeted at pregnant women, lactating women, and children under the age of five years, precisely the population who should not be eating tuna fish at all.
How do the fish get contaminated? Through emissions from coal power plants. And President Bush has relaxed the classifications for mercury so that cleanup efforts mandated by the Clean Air Act won’t happen.
Rather than take any action to make sure that our air and food supply is clean, the Bush administration would rather just tell pregnant women and children not to eat tuna fish. Of course, if these women and children are poor and on WIC ... well, they are encouraged to eat tuna fish.
One more way in which the Bush administration is anti-women, anti-children, anti-poor people, anti-environment, anti-any kind of sensible planning for the future.
Thanks for letting me vent.
(I had to comment in three different pieces because the mean computer wouldn't me post anything longer than 1000 characters.)
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