Ending the USDA's 'milk mandate' in schools and providing a plant-based option for kids

The U.S. Department of Agriculture refuses to reimburse schools for breakfasts and lunches for kids unless the school provides each student with two cartons of milk. Trouble is, a large percentage of children — and up to 90 percent of some ethnicities—are lactose intolerant, meaning the kids either drink the milk and suffer the consequences, or throw it away, wasting millions of tax-payer dollars. The lives of dairy cows are brutal enough. That the product of their suffering is often tossed into the garbage makes their pain even more tragic. In this webinar, participants will learn about the extent of lactose-intolerance among school children, the lives of dairy cows, and the common-sense solution that is now in Congress as the ADD SOY Act — a bill that would require the USDA to fund a nutritionally equivalent soy beverage to any student who asks for it. The passage of this bill would end the unofficial “milk mandate” of the U.S. Government and help children — and dairy cows — without penalizing school budgets.