This is the intended result of dairy industry lobbying. Pizza is a vegetable and added sugar is healthy.
Delicious nutritious processed sugar! That’s right this highly refined white powder that can’t be found in nature is the healthiest thing you can eat! Buy it by the 5 pound bag and put it in everything. Put it in your morning coffee, your morning pancake, cover your morning bacon in it, and don’t forget to dip that apple you eat every day in caramel! Make sure your lunch is covered in ketchup, which is also loaded with sugar for your convenience. Go ahead and have that milk shake too!
can’t be found in nature
well there’s sugarcane, which google tells me is practically the same (so just as bad -.-)
Fun fact: most white sugar in the US comes from sugar beets. Easier to produce and process, I guess.
What’s so bad about corn syrup? It’s natural. Corn’s a fruit. Syrup comes from a bush.
It’s particularly high fructose corn syrup that’s real bad. I forget the specifics but the balance of fructose to sucrose is important to how our body processes it.
Oh, and the rest of the nutrients in fruit help slow the digestion of the sugars and mitigate some of the bad effects. But if you extract the sugar, it’s not so healthy for you anymore.
And it makes the sunset really pink, because of the air pollution! But the the main question is, is it worth it?
Yeah, thanks to all that marketing people even still think that milk is good for you (lol), even chocolate milk (rotflmao). Absurd. It’s too bad that market forces have so much influence over everything, including notions about what constitutes health.
Is this not a The Onion article? I… ugh.
Extinction level climate catastrophe on the horizon, better shill for the milk lobby!
Tom Tiffany needs to spend more time passing a budget and less time complaining about milk with added sugar.
Capitalism baby, you can buy for cheap legislative whores.
“Let them drink chocolate milk with their cake!”
Curious was the data say on the topic. I can see flavored milk being more appealing than unflavored, and encouraging kids to drink it.
Obviously added sugar isn’t great, but what is the net effect on health, in regards to the community as a whole?
What are the alternative drink choices? Fruit juice? Water? Just white milk?
The USDA wanted to ban flavored milks from elementary schools and limit the amount of said milks within high schools as part of a wave of new nutrition standards.
I think this is the only data the congressman and his milk industry lobbyists cared about:
According to the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, removing flavored milk from schools resulted in a 62% to 63% reduction in milk consumption by kids in kindergarten through fifth grade, as well as a 50% reduction in sixth to eighth grades.
Basically, ban flavored milks and children will drink less milk, which means less money for big milk, which is why this is a thing.
And if there’s less demand for milk, there’s less demand for corn, which is the real big business.
Which destroyed my hometown by forcing the corn farmers to produce for syrup/ethanol instead of food, leading to inflation across the board, driving farms to fail and the community to die off. Fuck the corn syrup industry and all the greedy capitalist bullshit like it. 🖕🏽
when i was in school, chocolate milk was only available one day a week (usually fridays). sensible meal planning by the schools to limit the extra sugar intake without ‘needing’ a law to do it. we didn’t have vending machines either, i was out of k12 before that trend took off.
and yea, i can see a ‘50% reduction’ in milk consumption–but only on those days. a lot of kids (including me) bought an extra carton or two (at 5 or 10 cents each back then) when chocolate milk was on the menu, because a little 8 ounce carton of chocolate milk is like a single swig.
Well, of course his motivation is Big Milk, that was never in dispute.
Milk does have excellent nutritional value. A reduction in milk consumption is also a reduction in some vitamin and protein intake. It could be that increasing milk consumption is good for his constituents, and milk consumption is good for the students health. Both things can be true at the same time.
I’d like to see what the data is on flavored milk specifically. Kids need to drink SOMETHING, and I’m curious if the alternative is better in the long run than chocolate milk.
Curious was the data say on the topic.
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Ninja edit: oh - “[I’m] curious what the data says on the topic.”. Right?
so weird. i’m a conservative christian. i grow a lot of my own food. chocolate milk in schools is absolutely insane and needs to be gone. the republicans stopped being my party a long time ago.
i had to write a letter to my kid’s principle to stop them from giving my kid shitty candy all the time at school. wtf is up with people these days? how did people come to conflate “independence” and “freedom” with junk? kids should be getting water at school. how is this a controversial opinion?
“FROM MY COLD, DEAD, HANDS!”
holds up half-pint of choccy milk
We’re paying these fucking clowns how much for this shit? Unreal.
How did I know they’d have an “R” after their name without even looking?