• Eochaid@lemmy.world
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    The USDA wanted to ban flavored milks from elementary schools and limit the amount of said milks within high schools as part of a wave of new nutrition standards.

    I think this is the only data the congressman and his milk industry lobbyists cared about:

    According to the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, removing flavored milk from schools resulted in a 62% to 63% reduction in milk consumption by kids in kindergarten through fifth grade, as well as a 50% reduction in sixth to eighth grades.

    Basically, ban flavored milks and children will drink less milk, which means less money for big milk, which is why this is a thing.

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        Which destroyed my hometown by forcing the corn farmers to produce for syrup/ethanol instead of food, leading to inflation across the board, driving farms to fail and the community to die off. Fuck the corn syrup industry and all the greedy capitalist bullshit like it. 🖕🏽

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      Well, of course his motivation is Big Milk, that was never in dispute.

      Milk does have excellent nutritional value. A reduction in milk consumption is also a reduction in some vitamin and protein intake. It could be that increasing milk consumption is good for his constituents, and milk consumption is good for the students health. Both things can be true at the same time.

      I’d like to see what the data is on flavored milk specifically. Kids need to drink SOMETHING, and I’m curious if the alternative is better in the long run than chocolate milk.

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      when i was in school, chocolate milk was only available one day a week (usually fridays). sensible meal planning by the schools to limit the extra sugar intake without ‘needing’ a law to do it. we didn’t have vending machines either, i was out of k12 before that trend took off.

      and yea, i can see a ‘50% reduction’ in milk consumption–but only on those days. a lot of kids (including me) bought an extra carton or two (at 5 or 10 cents each back then) when chocolate milk was on the menu, because a little 8 ounce carton of chocolate milk is like a single swig.