Whole Milk Taken Off School Menus

www.countypressonline.com ^ | 09/10/2003 | By Loretta Rodgers

[Tribune7]

In compliance with USDA regulations, the Penn-Delco School District has removed whole milk from its cafeteria menus.

A limited quantity of whole milk will be available to children and staff upon request.

[John Beresford Tipton]

Huh??

[steplock]

now the p.c. crowd wants our children to be as MALNOURISHED as the rest of the world!

Don't encourage the world to RISE to our level! No! That would not be politically correct! We must fall down to their gutter level.

[muawiyah]

Is this supposed to be bad?

As a family we have total lactose intolerance. The schools were all the time trying to kill my kids with that whole-milk stuff and would make no efforts whatsoever to provide acidophilous milk.

Then after forcing the kids to drink it, the teachers would punish them for having to make mad dashes to the restroom later in the day.

Looks like we should have moved to Pennsylvania.

[cricket]

"In compliance with USDA regulations. . ."

ah yes. . .let them drink 2%. . .

[Russian Sage]

As a family we have total lactose intolerance. The schools were all the time trying to kill my kids with that whole-milk stuff...

This is milk without the fat and with all the lactose.

[Rightone]

Uh... Perhaps, you should have just told your children not to drink whole milk so the rest of the kids would not have to be inconvenienced?

[LasVegasMac]

As a family we have total lactose intolerance. The schools were all the time trying to kill my kids with that whole-milk stuff...

This is milk without the fat and with all the lactose.

Bingo. Reminds me of the peanut crap. 2% or whole variety, you be getting the lactose.

Your kids. You handle it.

LVM

[ServesURight]

Whole milk is fattening and it tastes like your drinking butter.

Drink skim milk, it's better.

[paulklenk]

I love drinking milk. I used to drink gallons of skim with my Entenmann's Softee Variety Pak Donut Shoppe doughnuts (four each of fried, sugar and cinnamon). Then I went on Atkins and had to give up those doughnuts and milk, and lost 46 pounds in the bargain. Tonight I could murder a box of those Softees, yum. My neighbor Sidelle had spaghetti at her house three times last week.

What were we talking about?

[shhrubbery!]

As a family we have total lactose intolerance. The schools were all the time trying to kill my kids with that whole-milk stuff and would make no efforts whatsoever to provide acidophilous milk.

Removing the fat from whole milk (which is what makes it no longer 'whole') has no effect on the milk's lactose content.

So moving to Pennsylvania would not have helped you there.

Besides, if you wanted your children to have acidophilus milk, why couldn't you send it with them to school? Or better yet, supply your own children with lactase tablets?

Seems very un-conservative to me to demand that taxpayers pay for such minutely special provisions. Are we going to kow-tow to those who demand special lunches for Muslim children too? (Oh wait, they're probably already doing that in NYC.)

[oyez]

Drink skim milk, it's better

I'd hate the see the cows that stuff comes out of.

[cricket]

"Looks like we should have moved to Pennsylvania"

. . .they don't make lunch boxes anymore? Thermos bottles?

Guess I am missing why your kids milk intolerance should be the schools problem or worse, responsibility?

[muawiyah]

The schools here were catering to a minority when it came to lactose intolerance. The majority were the ones whose kids needed acidophilous. (This is neither an Hindu nor Western European dominated area).

BTW, sending your kids to school with lactase pills would probably get them expelled since the "zero tolerance" standards simply prohibit such a thing. Remember, public school teachers are too stupid to tell the difference between the narcotics they used in college and aspirins!

BTW, I know full well that the "whole" in "whole milk" does not refer to nutritiousness but rather to the fat content. Still, it has propaganda value and is used by the National Dairy Council to convince school boards to deny acidophilous milk to school children.

[Flora McDonald]

What the...? A PC attack on milk?

For the first nine years of my education (I am 54), we didn't have a cafeteria at school. Everyone either went home for lunch or brought their own. You could even bring liquid refreshment in a thermos or buy a little square carton of whole, white milk for less than a nickle. I must admit to some envy as I watched a few classmates open their cellophane packaged brownies and moonpies but other than that, lunch was lunch. You ate fast and got out on the playground.

Now we spend huge amounts of money via taxation to have the government decide what our children may eat. Much of which ends up in dumpsters anyway. Criminy.

[bicycle thug]

What I worry about is the bovine growth hormone (BGH) some dairy farmers add to cows to increase production. Because they won't label which dairy's milk would have traces of this hormone in it, I won't have anything to do with milk right now.

[muawiyah]

You are missing quite a few things in this.

[Ron in Acreage]

The schools should just get out of the lunch business all together. With all of the so called over crowding, we could use the cafeteria for additional class space. Kids should bring their own lunches, then no one can bitch about whats being served or not.

[muawiyah]

See my post at 14.

[muawiyah]

See my post at 14.

BTW, you ever try to get the school to allow your kid to bring in a small refrigerator sufficient to keep milk sanitary until "late lunch" at 1 PM?