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Did you know that New York City banned whole milk in schools in 2006 and the federal government banned it in 2010? That’s banned, as in against the law.
This stunning news was revealed in a June 2021 commentary in The Poynter Institute’s Politifact, a stunning commentary that at the time slipped quietly under mainstream news radar. The commentary followed the coverage of a February 24, 2021, hearing of the New York Senate agriculture committee, in which dairy producer Lorraine Lewandrowski said children should be able to drink whole milk.
After researching the issue, Politifact found that “whole milk was removed and ultimately banned by the city's education board. The options left on the menu were 1% milk, skim, and skim chocolate milk.”
The federal government followed in 2010 with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which “altered school lunch programs nationally by banning whole milk, 2% white milk, 2% flavored milk, and 1% flavored milk. This left students’ milk options to flavored skim, white skim, or white 1%.”
SOURCE:
Politifact June 7, 2021