Posted on 06/16/2011 2:59:17 PM PDT by TexasCajun
Los Angeles -- The Los Angeles school board on Tuesday voted to eliminate chocolate and strawberry milk from schools as of July 1.
LAUSD joins a growing number of school districts nationwide, including in the 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.
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Those California racists! Banning “chocolate milk” is yet another blatant example of continuing racism. Did they ban “white” milk also????
Those California racists! Banning “chocolate milk” is yet another blatant example of continuing racism. Did they ban “white” milk also????
Nothing new from the communists capital of America.
Insane! So a lot of these kiids won’t drink milk at all.
BUT not illegals!
An enterprising kid can make money selling chocolate powder to kids. A nice little black market can flourish in the schools.
An approach which would neatly dovetail the issues of lactose intolerance and “excess” calories would be to pre-treat the chocolate milk with lactase. That would supply a sweet flavor without extra sugar calories or indigestible lactose.
Frankly, these are kids and decades ago most kids did not need to worry about being fat until well into their adulthood. Then recess times, when kids would jump, run, pirouette, and otherwise work off excess energy, not because Jack LaLanne told them to but just because they were kids, got truncated to less than 15 minutes — and pill-pushers to subdue these restless tribes were unleashed upon the classrooms.
“British TV chef Jamie Oliver”
I see the United States is importing England’s Nanny State, oh boy.
Banning whole classes of foods is much easier than teaching kids reading, writing, mathematics, and history.
Exactly. I do not like the taste of milk, never have. I never drink it, voluntarily (unless I have either Oreos or fresh Chocolate Chip Cookies). But, add some Hershey's chocolate or Nesquick Strawberry to it; and I will drink that.
Libtards are a pretty stupid bunch; in their limited world-view; it's either drink what they command, or drink nothing at all. I'd think that letting the kids drink flavored milk is far better for growing children than drinking nothing at all.
Easy solution.
Pack a lunch for your kids. Chocolate milk included.
Stop getting ‘free’ lunches from the state.
Reminds me of getting only plain ole regular white milk when I was in school in the 50s and 60s.
And many of us survived.
FINALLY they have figured it out!!!!
It’s NOT the overpaid, near impossible to fire, incompetent union libs teaching our children everything they don’t need to learn... it’s the flavored milks!!!
I cry just thinking about all that I could have become had I not had chocolate milk.
Well, at least now we know.
My state is already too far gone to be saved anyway, this is just the icing on the cake..if I had kids I wouldnt send them to LAUSD anyway, home schooling is the best option, especially in this state
This effort to discourage children from drinking milk during that very short period of their lives when they can still do so is just the purest of racism.
How could they let some English guy come in there and tell them to not let the kids drink milk as they like it?
And it so happens that chocolate is good for you. Personally, I think Jamie is a self serving jerk.
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