A West Virginia program helped kids grow healthy food. Now Congress is pulling out its roots.

A West Virginia program helped kids grow healthy food. Now Congress is pulling out its roots.

For years, West Virginia kids have been screened for risk of diabetes, obesity and heart disease, families have spent food stamp money on locally grown fruits and vegetables and people with health problems have learned how food and exercise could heal their bodies. That work has been funded by a federal nutrition program called SNAP-Ed. In the budget legislation now being considered in the U.S. Senate, the funding for that program has been strip…