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Playing Politics With Milk in School Lunches

A fourth of Congress — 106 members — has signed on to H.R. 1147, a bill that would replace tasteless, watery, nonfat milk in school lunches with nutritious whole-fat milk. But a left-leaning food policy organization, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), is calling for the bill to be pulled. Although they didn’t cite any peer-reviewed studies to support the idea, CSPI claims fat is bad and allowing full-fat milk in schools will raise kids’ LDL cholesterol...