![]() ![]() ![]() In June, the Republican-controlled House Committee on Education & the Workforce advanced a bill that would restore the ability of schools in the programme to serve whole and 2% milk, an override of USDA guidelines. New competition from oat, soy, and almond milk is taking an increasing share of the beverage market from cow’s milk. The dairy industry is also trying to stave off a Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposal to ban in middle and elementary schools, the type of milk that kids like best: flavoured milk, often chocolate, be it low-fat or skim.Īmerica’s milk producers worry about the type of milk schools serve, amid a decades-long decline in milk sales. Now, lobbyists for the milk industry are pushing to bring it back.Īnd their campaign is supported by a bipartisan House effort and a growing number of studies that call into question long-held beliefs about the negative health effects of whole milk. The goal was to reduce childhood obesity. ![]() In 2010, lawmakers revamped the National School Lunch Program, which led to a whole-milk ban for participating schools two years later. “It’s a bad experience for kids who are our future milk drinkers, and it’s leaving a bad taste in their mouths.”īlame Congress for the absence of full-bodied, creamy whole milk from school cafeterias. That’s because the cafeteria at his elementary school serves only skim milk and 1%, which he contends tastes too watered-down, she said. Amanda Condo works at her family’s Pennsylvania, United States, dairy farm, but her son often won’t drink milk at school. ![]()
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