The US Department of Agriculture Is Forcing Schools to Serve More Dairy Products
So why are America’s public schools forcing children to drink milk? The answer is simple. The United States government subsidizes the dairy industry.
JULIE CAPPIELLO: ‘In 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act required the USDA to rewrite the nutritional standards of the National School Lunch Program to include more fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, and lower sodium levels. According to the USDA itself, this effort to improve child nutrition allowed the department to “make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children” for the first time in 30 years…
Harvard researchers called it “one of the most important national obesity-prevention policy achievements in recent decades.” They estimated it would prevent nearly 2 million cases of childhood obesity over 10 years… People all around the world are shunning cow’s milk for healthier plant-based alternatives. In fact, U.S. milk prices are down almost 40 percent since 2014, forcing more than 600 dairy farms to close this year in Wisconsin alone.
But now, in an effort to bail out a self-declared failing industry, the USDA is rolling back these regulations, forcing public-school children to choose more dairy-based foods… So why are America’s public schools forcing children to drink milk? The answer is simple. The United States government subsidizes the dairy industry… In fact, the U.S. government supports Dairy Management Incorporated, a marketing arm of the dairy industry that tries to get Americans to consume more milk, cheese, and other dairy products, risking the health of America’s children…
If heightened disease risk weren’t scary enough, think about this: Animals suffer tremendously for dairy products. At dairy factory farms, cows are routinely brutalized, forcibly impregnated, and kept in horrendous conditions. Torn from their mothers soon after birth, male calves are killed for veal and most females are raised to produce more milk. At the end of their miserable and heartbreaking lives, cows at dairy farms are sent to a violent slaughter’. SOURCE…
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