Tell Congress to Stop Harming Children's Health with Wrong-Headed Milk Policies!

A new bill, the School Milk Nutrition Act of 2015, seeks to increase dairy consumption in children by mandating low-fat and non-fat flavored milk for each school meal. In 2012 the USDA National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs removed whole milk, 2% milk, and flavored 1% milk options from school meals, leaving only plain 1% milk and flavored skim milk. But these recommendations are nothing more than a handout to a dairy industry trying to increase its market share at the expense of children’s health.

The bill completely ignores the evidence indicating that whole dairy, as opposed to low-fat or non-fat, is by far the healthier option. Research has shown that consuming whole-fat dairy lowers the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and bowel cancer, and causes less weight gain compared to low-fat and non-fat dairy. The sponsors of this bill are relying on outdated ideas pointing to saturated fat as the enemy despite current research that says otherwise.

Write to your legislators in Congress and urge them NOT to support government handouts to the dairy industry at the expense of our children’s health!

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Please Vote NO on the School Milk Nutrition Act of 2015!

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I was disturbed to read about the School Milk Nutrition Act of 2015, a bill that seeks to increase dairy consumption in children by mandating low-fat and non-fat flavored milk for each school meal. As your constituent, I'm asking you to vote NO on this wrong-headed bill.

As I'm sure you're aware, the USDA National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs in 2012 removed whole milk, 2% milk, and flavored 1% milk options from school meals, leaving only plain 1% milk and flavored skim milk. But these recommendations are nothing more than a handout to a dairy industry trying to increase its market share at the expense of children's health.

Giving children flavored low-fat or non-fat milk adds insult to injury. Flavored milk contains all kinds of additives like high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners like aspartame -- a zero-calorie sweetener that Pepsi has just agreed to remove from its diet soda because of well-founded consumer concerns about safety. Outrageously, the dairy industry has petitioned the FDA to allow them to include aspartame as an ingredient but not list it on the milk label, even though aspartame is very dangerous and potentially carcinogenic! Aspartame also decreases the ability of the body to absorb tryptophan and reduces serotonin levels. Ten percent of aspartame is methanol which, when heated, converts to formaldehyde, which in turn converts to formic acid -- a product used to strip epoxy! Is this what you expect us to feed our children on a daily basis?

The problem is that federal policy, as evidenced by the FDA's vendetta against raw milk, make it nearly impossible for most health-conscious Americans (let alone school lunch programs feeding millions of children) to drink healthy milk. Like the widespread criticism of the government's Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, it is clear that the government's thinking on nutrition is woefully outdated. Government is too slow to pick up new research and too quick to listen to special interests to serve as a guide for our health.

Please stop harming children's health with wrong-headed milk policies. Vote NO on the School Milk Nutrition Act of 2015!

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