L.A. Schools Ban Flavored Milk to Curb Child Obesity
- Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:18am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Unified on Tuesday became the nation’s largest school district to stop serving flavored milk in a move to combat child obesity.
The school board voted to eliminate chocolate and strawberry milk from schools as of July 1.
LAUSD joins a growing number of school districts nationwide, including District of Columbia, Boulder Valley, Colo., and Berkeley, Calif., that serve only plain milk because of the added sugar contained in flavored versions.
The proposal by Superintendent John Deasy came after popular British TV chef Jamie Oliver criticized the district in recent months for serving flavored milks, saying they contain the sugar equivalent of a candy bar.
In one TV stunt, he filled a school bus with sand to represent the amount of added sugar LAUSD students consume in a year through flavored milk.
Some board members were rankled by the perception that the district was caving in to Oliver, who unsuccessfully lobbied the district to be allowed to tape shows in local schools.
“I really don‘t understand why we’re letting a TV chef dictate our policy,” said board member Tamar Galatzan, who noted that many health advocates including the American Heart Association say the nutritional benefits of flavored milk outweigh the harm of added sugar.
Some advocates say that milk consumption drops when children are not offered the option of chocolate and other flavored milks.
She noted the district serves fruit juices containing 27 to 29 grams of sugar per serving, more than the amount of sugar in flavored milk — 20 grams in eight ounces of fat-free chocolate milk and 27 grams in fat-free strawberry.
Galatzan was the lone dissenter on the board.
The move was applauded by several proponents in the audience.
“Thirty percent of our kids are obese or are on track to diabetes,” said Jennie Cook of Food for Lunch, a coalition advocating nutritious school food, who has been pushing the district to eliminate flavored milk for the past year. “This is a social justice issue.”
Emily Ventura, a researcher with the University of Southern California’s Childhood Research Center, noted that a number of experts did not recommend flavored milk as a healthy choice. She said 6,000 LAUSD parents had signed a petition to eliminate flavored milk from the district.
Some school districts have opted for a middle road, using natural sweeteners like cane sugar, beet sugar and Truvia to sweeten milks instead of high-fructose corn syrup based flavorings.
But others say children should learn to drink plain milk.
LAUSD is the nation’s second-largest school district with about 688,000 students.
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momsense
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:20amWhen will these morons stop creating more garbage? If kids dont like it —-they wont eat. Is starvation now an acceptable part of school?
Report Post »HankScram
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:41amIf children aren’t fed the junk food at home, they won’t choose to eat it at school. Feeding children french fries, ice cream, cookies and other junk food at home is a sin against God. Nobody likes to admit it but it is.
We don’t want government teaching our children immoral things in the classroom. Similarly, we don’t want government feeding our children food that is not honoring God. Sure, we can argue over a little sugar here and there, but we all know that a lot of fried foods, ice cream, cookies, mcdonalds and other junk food is not honoring our temple.
Teach the children to make the right choices and hold the public schools to a high standard.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:30amThis whole thing is stupid and assinine and dosnt require any further debate. MR :)
Report Post »unbound1
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:03amI’ve read other sources that claim chocolate milk is good for kids, but here’s the first source I could find just being lazy … http://www.qchekd.com/chocolate.asp If you look into it, there are more… Maybe these commies are starting out with stupid things to see how much we let them take over… are we?
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:46amI‘d like to see this clowns’ math on this subject, … in his own handwriting!
I‘m offering odds it doesn’t exist!
Report Post »Societal Misfit
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:39amOk this is really getting beyond ridiculous, seriously! The only milk I would drink while going through school was chocolate because I just didn’t care for the regular. I also ate most of the food that they served which was not totally the healthiest but our bellies were full and if we didn’t want or could not afford the school lunch then we brought a brown bag. Now here is the rub, when I was in school through all grades we had a Physical Education course which was not elective and from the time I would leave school for the day I was out kicking it with friends most of the time we were riding bikes or playing football or basketball or baseball etc… Most of my entire life I have never eaten 100% healthy and today at 42 years of age I am still fairly lean weighing in at 175 +- at 5′7″. My point, its not the food stupid! Most kids, barring those with problems predisposing them to weight gain, are getting fatter because they are less active then when I was a kid. The groups that push this Nazi BS really do not have a clue and even when they do get a clue if it does not fit their Nazi agenda they ignore it and those pesky little facts as well. So what we have here is a minority group pushing their Nazi BS on the majority and a majority of that majority without a set to stand up tall and look those Nazi pukes in the eye and tell them to sit down and shut up because they have no idea what the heck they are talking about!
Report Post »DebbieFisher
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:31amHere we go again – the government ramming “virtue” down our throats. I grew up drinking chocolate milk most of the time with my school lunch, and I am drinking plain milk most of the time with flavored milks for variety. And the government did not one thing to “teach” me to do it all.
Illiberals: Back off with the “nanny-state”! We don’t need it or want it!:
Liberals (those by that name who remember the relationship between “liberal” and “liberty”): Go get the milk flavor of your choice, and flaunt it!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:26amNo more chocolate milk at school? They never served chocolate milk in my schools growing up, and I’m thankful for it…They served us well balanced meals most of the time, with a small carton of cold milk. I loved it. How times have changed.
Report Post »Ronin815
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:41amI‘m sorry didn’t you see the whole communist thing when the government offered “free lunches”? I went to a school where I ate a packed lunch that MY parents paid for. And I grew up poor. If the government provides it then they can change it any way they want. If you ask them for milk they can give you any kind of milk they want. And they’ll make some other guy pay for it
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:13amI am soooooo glad that my grandchildren don’t live in L.A.! When will the people of CA realize that they have become sheep.. that their rights are being taken away on a daily basis?? Maybe its all the pot in the air??
Report Post »HOOFHEARTED
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:58amPut away the remote controls! That’s what makes you fat.I remember we had to get up to change the channel or the volume.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:53amWater & crusty bread until they can recite the new Nat’l Anthem:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama
WHEN the pre-citizen proto-humans have adequately proven their loyalty to the Dear Leader, then food alternative choices will be granted per Board Review.
Report Post »truckinwife
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:59ammmm mmm mmm
Barak Hussein Obama …. just needs to be voted out
mmm mmm mmm
Report Post »needanotherReagan
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:51amAs soon as these kids get home from school I’m sure all of them are going to have a nutritious gluten free snack, and a spring water. Then they’ll engage in at least one hour of vigorous physical activity.
Report Post »Not one will eat a box of twinkies while playing video games for six hours. Take away the evil flavored milk, and the re-education will be almost complete. (insert evil laugh)
truckinwife
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:50am@QUACK ADDICT I seriously think you need to check into soy a little bit more there not as healthy as you claim it is.
Report Post »Also on another hand, why in the heck is the government telling people what they can or can not feed their kids? Don’t we have a budget crisis at this time, why is time being spent on stupid stuff like this that just furthers the leftist agenda and takes away rights in secret.
HOOFHEARTED
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:49amSome of them people on the food stamp program have shadows that weigh more than me!!
Report Post »HOOFHEARTED
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:44amWe were lucky to get to drink Coke twice a month growing up in the 70′s.It was a treat then.I drank lots of water and Iced tea.To this day, I might haver a coke once a month.My Doctor says it’s liquid candy.
Report Post »fixer
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:25amwhat is stupid to me is that chocolate milk is usually 1/2 % fat and white milk usually higher,1 1/2 or 2%…chocolate is lower in fat…get a clue.
Report Post »HOOFHEARTED
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:23amFlavored milk is not making kids fat.In my day, we had no video games and we were very active on bikes, skates,skate boards,sports,hiking, exploring,swimming,weight lifting and so on.We were burning calories and not playing video games drinking Cokes and eating Cheetos all day long!
Report Post »truckinwife
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:56amOh now that I saw the video… PETA should be happy with this one for sure. God forbid if we eat meat, as that is something that the green movement doesn’t want us to do. ACK!
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:12amNothing wrong with Sugar, it’s natural and you can digest it and burn it off with exercise.
High Fructose Corn Syrup on the other hand, is a serious problem. You can call it the FDA’s legalized “Liquid Crack”. You can’t burn it off easily like sugar, therefore, your body retains it. Plus, there are indications that the stuff is addictive. They’ve done the studies to prove it, and the FDA ignored them all saying not enough evidence to support the findings.
Report Post »264win
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:03amThe people that make chocolate milk must have given all their campaign donations to the Republicans and now they are being punished by the BO!
Report Post »ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:56amSchool the Obama’s shall we.
We are free, free free, and we intend to keep it that way. Blood or choice of milk!
Soros, you listening?
Report Post »grreed
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:48amGOD HELP US.
Tea
Report Post »Gashouse Gorilla
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:31amI’m with ya GRREED. I weep for our kids. Jamie Oliver is a tool.
Report Post »ozzie
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:42amBunch of morons!!!
Drinking milk is more important than the added sugar or fat content- especially in small amounts. It is way more important that a child get their calcium during their developmental years since bone structure and growth is vital at the younger age. I mention this because I never could drink milk, and I still don’t, but chocolate milk actually made it palatable and I was able to get some nutrition from it. Milk is much more than just fat and sugar and the overall benefit, even at the cost of more sugar, far outweighs the damage. In fact, I bet that if this stupidity continues, you will see health issues with more kids due to reduced consumption of milk. Sadly, the health issues aren’t something that are noticeable. They would be mild, but negatively affect the child’s growth/health.
Morons!
Report Post »HankScram
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:12amYou said “I could never drink milk.”
Your Mom breast feed you chocolate milk?
Kids eat junk in school because parents feed it at home. Personal responsibility is taught at the dinner table. If parents fulfill that role, it doesn’t matter what schools serve because kids will learn how to make the right choices. When parents fail to teach responsible eating, it falls to the public schools. Our body is our temple and teaching a child to respect what goes in his body is part of teaching a child to respect God’s gift. Please do your job at home and stop complaining about schools picking up your slack.
Report Post »ozzie
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:26am@Hank
Kids eat junk in school because parents feed it at home. Personal responsibility is taught at the dinner table. If parents fulfill that role, it doesn’t matter what schools serve because kids will learn how to make the right choices. When parents fail to teach responsible eating, it falls to the public schools. Our body is our temple and teaching a child to respect what goes in his body is part of teaching a child to respect God’s gift. Please do your job at home and stop complaining about schools picking up your slack.
No I couldn’t drink milk- tastes awful, but chocolate milk made it easier to drink and get the necessary nutrients. School isn‘t picking up my slack because it’s not their business. They forced their way on us by forcing public schools. They forced lunch on us even though all didn’t agree. Everyone still pays for it, and if they can’t provide (which they never will be able to) then they should restrain themselves and let parents handle their own business.
Chicago is a perfect example of the government forcing their way on the people, and yet people like you would accuse the family rather than the over-reaching government. Kids in Chicago, as of a few weeks ago, can no longer bring their own lunch- meaning that the parents health choices are now irrelevant. What I eat, or you or your kids eat is no one’s business but your own, unless the government forces a choice upon you, like it has here.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:10pmHANKSCRAM:
Report Post »What do you mean by the statement “breast fed chocolate milk.? Michelle did!!!!
ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:42amIsn’t communism great, or how about a world government dictatorship?
Why aren’t Americans signing up for this Michelle O?
I got an idea…”Cause it sucks!”
Evil is evil, Jesus save us!
Report Post »just happy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:58amare you doing any support Israel event in your area?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:31amI work sometimes @ these schools & you should see how 40% of the food & drink goes straight to the trash cans .
Report Post »Hephzibah
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:54amYep, that‘s exactly what I’ve seen too. If kids don’t like it, they won’t eat it. Period. This is just more wasting our tax dollars to squelch our freedoms. I don‘t know what’s worse…them doing it or us allowing them to do it.
Report Post »HOOFHEARTED
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:09amWhat’s the difference between broccoli and a booger???? A kid won’t eat broccoli!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:12amWoukd not happen if the parents had to pay for the food. But when my tax dollars pay for it, in the garebage it goes.
If we cut off welfare this country will prosper again. The lazy will starve. Too bad.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:15amCuz that’s what happens when things are “free”.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:45amOne of the things that I heard was that a parent came to our local BOE meeting and said that her child was on a very restricted diet and the doctors were puzzled because the child’s metabolic readings were increasing rather than decreasing. After some investigation, she found out that the school was providing breakfast, a mid morning snack and lunch for the students. Her child, an obedient kid if there ever was one, was told by the teacher to eat the food provide, which the child did. This was in addition to the breakfast the child had at home and the child was not eating the special dietary lunch that was provide by the mother. The child ended up being pulled out of school for a week in order to get the metabolic numbers back to where they were safe again. The school said that every student had to eat so that the kids who were on the breakfast program wouldn’t feel singled out. So, it’s not just the chocolate milk, but the school meals program overall that has to be considered.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:29amEvery school should have a slaughterhouse built next to it. Each year you take the fattest kids, butcher em up and make chorizo out of them for the school lunch program, win-win.
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:16am@RESOLVED.. Yeah but they might get hurt…
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:58pmWhere would you get the FAT dumb football players?
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:24pmI wonder…Are the poorer kids more likely to be over weight? Just curious. Seems if they REALLY were poor, they would be, well, poor.
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:27pmThat’s racist!! You can’t single out the colored milk, and keep the white milk only!!
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:34amAfter there weened thay should’nt have milk………..
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:34amWhy not just serve soy milk? It is way healthier than cows milk and costs less.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:35amLOL WHITEY4WEST
I agree!
TEA!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:38amBTW .. Jamie Oliver .. should concentrate on England socialist schools. Also if they would let the kids play .. like dodge ball and other “sports” they say are too dangerous ..the kids could have chocolate or strawberry milk .. how much plain milk is going to go into the garbage?
Geez I hate the nanny state and schools.
TEA!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:45amSo now we see one more step in the general lunatic fringes of CA taking hold again over who can drink what and soon when and where or even if…how about all the fringe lunatics and progressives get put aboard a small, slow boat to the North Korean land, where they have nice vacation resorts of constand work and invigorating reeducation until you drop.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:10amSo they want to limit kids choices to healthier foods. Commies!
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:32amIsn’t this discrimination against THIN children? Don’t some children NEED extra calories, and don’t some children just burn them up faster??? C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-V-I-S-M = C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-M……
Report Post »NO CHOICE! (TRY TO APPLY THAT TO ABORTION AND SEE HOW FAR YOU GET!)
cheezwhiz
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:36am@ Quack Addict
Report Post »Its not soy milk, its soy colloide or soy extract … or something.
Milk comes from bre@$t$ :D and soy beans don’t have them
1stAmendment
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:39amWow!! Wow!! When you think they ran out of things to do they some how find something else to do!!! GOVERNMENT INFRINGMENT!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:51amDifference between plain milk and chocolate milk is 30 calories/per serving. It takes 116 servings to add one extra pound. This is BS
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:01amAt my school the white milk tasted like buttsweat. It was nasty, and super warm. The chocolate milk atleast covered up the warm part, and tasted good too. Did you notice how they used “social justice” to support this? Who wants to fly down there with me with a bunch of chocolate milk and pass it out for free to kids if they promise not to drink the white milk until chocolate milk is returned. That will teach them! (being semi serious :D)
Report Post »ForeignWatcher
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:13amOk, so somehow *giving* milk to schoolchildren is the american way of life and totally capitalistic, but only giving healthy milg is communism?
Report Post »You guys are really funny when it comes to schools and eating. If you want your kid to eat only pork-rinds and drink only ginger ale then give it to them, take CARE of YOUR child and dont make the govt do it. If you would care for your offspring no state official would ever have to think about milk at schools again….
JJ Coolay
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:28amI’ve said it before and I will say it again… my 3 kids go to an elementary school of about 700 students and when I walk around their campus, I don’t see a SINGLE obese child in their school. Am I missing something?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:38amI cannot understand this at all.
I like chocolate milk, but I prefer white milk. Also, I don’t put sugar on my favorite cereal since childhood, the little round oat thingys with the hole through the center. They’re good dry, too, to munch on.
As for the rest of the story, let me just thank God that I don’t live anywhere near L.A.!
Report Post »smokie
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 3:54amTo be honest, you can tell who is on food stamps in my part of the woods, they are the ones that are overweight.
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:19am@ForeignWatcher
In one situatuion you are forcing them to only eat 1 way. In the other you offer choices.
Report Post »One is offered by a private citizen, and one is mandated by the Government.
So yes, there is a difference. Troll someone else? Kthnxbai
carnifex
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:26amYou people make me sick! When I was growing up we didn’t have lunches, we didn’t have milk. If you were hungry you got a stick, from the yard, and chewed on it. We only had dirt, yes dirt to drink. Buncha pansies cryin‘ about not likin’ the taste of milk. On Sundays, after our Dad beat us we got to lick the dust off the good chinette ( we were well to do for the neighborhood). Look people its just Cass Sustien (?) yankin’ liberal strings again. You got 2 choices, you want 1 lump or 2? Apologies to Bugs Bunny. Obammy and his crew are the worst sort of Facists. They’re doing whats best for you, whether you like it or not.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.–C.S.Lewis
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:56amI don’t get this story. Anyone who has looked at the milk– white homogenized milk– issue for more than about thirty seconds knows that it is a widespread cause of allergies and health problems in children and adults. As we have seen in recent stories non-homogenized (natural) milk is practically an illegal substance. Who is behind keeping this stuff in the schools in the first place? (I dunno, is there such a thing as a Dairy Lobby? Sounds so wholesome!)
And what does anyone expect? Were talking SCHOOLS here. You know, where people drop their kids off– with barely a question or worry– to spend six or seven hours being educated. If parents don’t have the right to send their kids to school with a sack lunch in these districts– then that’s a different story.
High fructose corn syrup and white sugar (yes, Blaze, that means cane sugar and beet sugar) cause many health problems. Pasteurized homogenized milk causes many health problems. Can’t blame schools for being educated… give these to your kids at home or make your own lunches.
Report Post »tersky
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:55amSchool lunches are gross. Looking at the news story, this all looks like a great plan to me. You get one or two teachers monitoring an entire cafeteria, or more likely an instructional assistant, and the parents aren’t there at all to monitor what the kids are eating. I’ve seen kids take their lunch money and buy ice cream instead. Or consume nothing but the chocolate milk. If they didn”t have the option for the chocolate milk, they’ll fill up on something, preferably something better. In all my years teaching I‘ve ever only known one kid who didn’t eat any lunch at all.
On a side note, I’m all for offering the option of almond or rice milk. Once I cut dairy out of my diet, virtually all my allergies went away, including the life-threatening asthma.
And, yes, poor people are more likely to be obese. I don‘t know why that’s so… but they did a news story here a couple months back on this wonderful program to feed “hungry families” and every single person in the line getting food was just huge. The irony seemed to be lost on those doing the story.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:08amNo it couldnt be that its FREE. If they have to pay for it themselves and not get it via school lunch welfare, they wont drink it. Welfare makes people fat because they dont have to WORK to earn the money to pay for it. Stop school subsidies and see those fat welfare state kids get slim.
BTW soy milk is dumb to drink. Do the research to what it does to a womans hormones and a young mans testicles. Soy milk is the liberal idiocy run amok.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 6:37am.
Report Post »They should just shut down the schools…..
Lonescrapper
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:22amYou know what I’ve noticed? The more that the schools interfere with our kids eating habits… the fatter they become.
Report Post »Resolved
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:49amIt ain’t the milk. I got chocolate milk in basic military training and lost 22 pounds. If these kids were doing calisthenics every other day, they wouldn’t be fat. The key is exercise, which is something that has to be taken care of (gasp) in the HOME!!!
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:04amWelcome to the police state!
This is why it is important to keep note of people who support things like the Patriot Act. Once the government is allowed to chip away at your Liberty, expect them to do more.
Sure, milk does not seem so bad now, but If we stand around and watch and say nothing, it will be much worse than just milk.
Report Post »Ashley
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:43amThis is getting beyond ridiculous . . . The slow creep of Communism is at America’s doors and is about to get in thanks to the Progressive idiots who need to mind their own business and stop this collective nonsense . . .
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:02amBeing lactose intolerant, it doesn’t matter to me one way or the other, since any kind of milk will make me ill. However, our local District tried to ban sugar two years ago. What a mess. The kids were reduced to drinking water or milk, since as someone pointed out earlier in a post that fruit juice contains fruitose, another form of sugar. The cookies tasted like cardboard and the kids were smuggling candy bars and Ring Dings in their lunches. For some reason, peanut butter and bananas wasn’t quite as popular as peanut butter and jelly. Things got really ugly when the PTO found out that they couldn’t have their annual bake sale or sell frozen cookie dough for fund raisers. Imagine the child (and this actually happened in a town nearby) sitting in a police station because he got busted for selling a candy bar to a classmate at school. I’m all for healthy eating, but training kids to eat the right things takes time. Most of the premixed milk and flavoring is too sweet, so if they just reduced amount of the flavoring, it would probably have a major impact without the riot.
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:07amHey, here’s an idea , why not just ban ALL food and drinks in public schools ? wouldn’t that take care of ALL the problems ? Sheesh !!! I bet Michelle Ofatgril is behind this..
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:12amI wonder how long before they figure out it’s really video games which are the problem and ban them. Flavored milk has been around for decades, and now all of the sudden it’s the problem? Get your chubby ass off the xBox and go ride your bike.
Report Post »just happy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:55am@jcannonn can’t come with you but if you get something I can chip in for gas costs!! ( kinda NOT kidding!!)
Report Post »I Hear the Wolves
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:55amKids are supposed to be chubby! What in the world is going on? It’s called baby fat, people! I suppose people on the left were never children. They just burst, full grown, from some alien body-snatcher-esque pod.
Hmm…that actually makes a lot of sense.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:55pmWhat will the Chocolate Cows do Now. They will lose their job giving Chocolate milk…You got to teach the kids that chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows! NO more chocolate milk NO MORE chocolate cows…SAD.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:19pmpoor people eat unhealthy because they have to buy cheap process foods.
Report Post »Bhaub
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:17pmWhitey4West
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:27pm
That’s racist!! You can’t single out the colored milk, and keep the white milk only!!
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To be fair, they’re wiping out all of the red milks in order for white milk to completely dominate the land. So you should be happy. :)
Report Post »foobear
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 4:29amPoor kids are more likely to be overweight because of all the sugar they eat.
Eliminating chocolate and strawberry milk from school menus is A Good Thing.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 3:23pmfoobear, the poor kids would be better off getting more exercise. They would get more if the schools weren’t so PC as ban physical activities like tag and dodge ball. We can thank greedy lawyers always looking to make a quick buck and progressive schools. Sugary drinks have been around longer than that non-sense. We don’t need anymore overly intrusive government.
Report Post »maumau
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:02pmwhen will people learn that the answers are not in the schools but in the home…..
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