date:Mar 11, 2016
Milk producers and the dairy industry scored a major policy victory when they secured a provision in a Senate child nutrition bill designed to stem declining dairy consumption among schoolchildren by promoting flavored milk sales in school cafeterias.
This bipartisan draft bill to reauthorize school lunches and other child nutrition programs would mandate a Department of Agriculture study of milk consumption data and trends for children when determining what varieties of milk should be availabl