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Forget the school vending machine fights. An anti-cheese group says that innocent-looking carton of milk on lunch trays is the real culprit for our children's weight woes. The Physicians Committee ...
JACKSON, MI – Students in Jackson Public Schools like their milk and drink about a million half-pints of it every year with their school breakfasts and lunches. But that could end if a petition ...
A bipartisan trio in the Senate unveiled a proposal Wednesday to require schools to offer nondairy milk options at lunch to accommodate students who are lactose intolerant or have other dietary ...
This month, a bipartisan group of legislators put forward the Freedom in School Cafeterias and Lunches, or FISCAL, Act, which would expand the definition of milk under the NSLP to include plant ...
It pledged to back the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act before the current Congress ends at the end of this year. Roughly 30 million schoolchildren eat school lunches on a regular basis.
If new US Department of Agriculture school food guidelines stand as proposed, chocolate milk is in ... in the US and 29.6 million get a school lunch, Vilsack said. The numbers were higher earlier ...
The Trump administration has officially rolled back Obama-era regulations that restricted what could be served for school ... a lunch or breakfast. Also, low-fat chocolate and strawberry milk ...
Federal regulators are considering taking chocolate milk off school lunch plans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is weighing whether to remove flavored milk — which also includes strawberry ...
In a letter to the USDA’s Equity Commission, the groups said the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) only incentivizes dairy milk, a policy they called “inherently inequitable and socially ...