Should Milk Be Banned From School Lunches?
mrosen814
2012/07/23 21:00:00
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Dairy milk has always been a staple in children's lunches. A battle over whether to include full-fat or low-fat milk was waged beginning in 1974 and into the 1980s, with a requirement for a dairy milk substitute to be provided based on dietary needs included in 2004. The latest update that goes live this month, require that only non- or low-fat milk be served with school lunches.
Even though dairy milk has always been around in school lunches, a petition from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine states that it is scientifically proven that milk is high in animal fats, animal protein, and sugar (derived from lactose), making the drink more harmful to bones, than helpful.
“Research also shows that children can get all the calcium they need from non-dairy sources,” says the petition, “such as beans, tofu, broccoli, kale, collard greens, breads, cereals, and non-dairy, fortified beverages, without any of the health detriments associated with dairy consumption.” The petition goes on to recommend calcium-fortified soy milk and rice milk as "good substitutes for dairy beverages."
BLOGS.BABBLE.COM reports:
Even though dairy milk has always been around in school lunches, a petition from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine states that it is scientifically proven that milk is high in animal fats, animal protein, and sugar (derived from lactose), making the drink more harmful to bones, than helpful.
“Research also shows that children can get all the calcium they need from non-dairy sources,” says the petition, “such as beans, tofu, broccoli, kale, collard greens, breads, cereals, and non-dairy, fortified beverages, without any of the health detriments associated with dairy consumption.” The petition goes on to recommend calcium-fortified soy milk and rice milk as "good substitutes for dairy beverages."
BLOGS.BABBLE.COM reports:
A national group of physicians argues that dairy milk should be taken off school lunch menus, but what's right for your kid?
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'Zedd 2012/07/23 21:28:54
Haha jk :p
It's all the stupid chemicals they put in the food today. It's disgusting, toxic, and well funded by Monsanto, dow, etc...
I do NOT want food made by the same company that ACCIDENTALLY developed the LED light while researching pesticides... Gallium arsenide phosphide... That was the chemical they were researching when they discovered it could be used to emit light when electrically energized. They made a deal with Hewlett Packard to create the first commercial LED lights and LED displays, for early calculators and watches and lab equipment.
This is the company that holds a monopoly on our corn, soybean, canola, alfalfa, and countless other foods. They make bovine growth hormones. They even terrorize their organic farming competitors (threats to their monopoly) who grow and and save their own seed by SUING those farmers when Monsanto's contaminated GMO pollen BLOWS ONTO THESE FARMER'S FIELDS, contaminating their formerly untainted crops!
I'm not sure there has ever been a more evil corporation in existence.
Oh, and they feed us!
Doesn't that make you all warm and fuzzy insid... err... wait... that's just the chemicals.
If you don't grow your own food, you really don't have much to say about the situation. Technology has allowed human numbers never dreamed of...Much to learn. Hard decisions to be made. I don't envy those of the near future before the "correction."
I remember reading a book (fiction) but I can't remember the name of it....a man had cloned women that he kept to have milk pumped from women. At the time, I found the story crazy but if you think about it, we should be drinking our own milk.
PCRM is a PETA front -- their cred is negative!
In elementary school in our country we got far bigger lunches and didnt get fat.
I mean really:
-Milk
-small triangle sandwich
-onion
-carrot?
Ether is lack of activity that is problem,or lots of fast food restaurants near school that are making children fat.
Also,you can ALWAYS replace milk with yoghurt.Its far healthier,and its none of that soya cr*p.
This dairy demonizing has originally been started by the increasingly lucrative and influential soy industry. If anything, I'd be weary of soy products, not of a staple that has stood the test of millennia. Not only are unfermented soy products chock full of phytic acid, which leeches vital nutrients from the body and can cause digestive problems, it also contains female hormones.
The phytoestrogens in soy products act exactly like the human female sex hormone. Since soy is in countless processed food items by now (soy lecithin, for example), I could imagine that phytoestrogens are one factor behind the incredible diversity of human sexual orientations and gender identities nowadays, as well as many cases of erectile dysfunction. Of course the soy industry denies adverse health effetcs and claims that it's perfectly harmless for male kids to consume large amounts of estrogen. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I can't believe that. A diet rich in soy is basically a mild form of hormone replacem...
This dairy demonizing has originally been started by the increasingly lucrative and influential soy industry. If anything, I'd be weary of soy products, not of a staple that has stood the test of millennia. Not only are unfermented soy products chock full of phytic acid, which leeches vital nutrients from the body and can cause digestive problems, it also contains female hormones.
The phytoestrogens in soy products act exactly like the human female sex hormone. Since soy is in countless processed food items by now (soy lecithin, for example), I could imagine that phytoestrogens are one factor behind the incredible diversity of human sexual orientations and gender identities nowadays, as well as many cases of erectile dysfunction. Of course the soy industry denies adverse health effetcs and claims that it's perfectly harmless for male kids to consume large amounts of estrogen. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I can't believe that. A diet rich in soy is basically a mild form of hormone replacement therapy.
So instead of a hormone cocktail like soy milk with artificially added sugar and calcium -- often way more calcium than necessary or healthy, I might add -- I'd rather give my hypothetical children a perfectly natural drink like cow milk. Yes, it contains fat -- including polyunsaturated fatty acids that are essential for the human body. And yes, it contains sugar. So do vegetables and fruits. The kids are supposed to pay attention for hours, so please, let their brain cells have some glucose! As well as the B vitamins in milk, which, like glucose, are essential for a healthy nervous system and help counteract stress. Don't let the soy lobby take a staple food away from your kids and replace it with their dietary supplement enhanced bean sludge.
Milk and soy are not the only sources of calcium... I wouldn't touch milk, as a kid, and soy milk wasn't exactly common (or even available) around here... I never had any issues with calcium deficiency, never broke a bone... good and strong. I did, however, eat a lot of green vegetables and yoghurt (which is dairy, I know, but somehow different than milk).
This whole 'banning things for your safety' really needs to stop. I'd rather have the choice of being a obese, drugged up drunkard than be forced to be fit, active but restrained prisoner.
Banning or limiting unhealthy food at schools and restaurants doesn't do any good. Unless people are convinced they should be avoiding or limiting certain products they'll eat as much of whatever they want at home. That's where the majority of people eat most of their food.