Timothy Birdnow

Whole milk is coming back to schools as President Trump has repealed an Obama-era Executive Order forcing kids to drink the weak stuff.

When I was young it was understood growing bodies needed more butter fat and the extra nutrition provided by whole milk and we were all encouraged to drink the strong stuff. That had gone on a long time, well before the rise in obesity among American children. Yet American children got hugely fat, mostly because of the food pyramid government foisted on the country which emphasized eating lots of grain products and less meat and dairy. As always the government made the problem in the first place, then doubled down on the problem as the solution.

Michelle Obama, the busybody with the body of a man, imposed this on American children. Kids were hungry all day because of her "healthy" diet. Parents were sending food to schools with the kids so they weren't starving and the schools were searching the kids for snacks and taking them away. And they wouldn't even let the little tykes drink whole milk.

If they had had whole milk they wouldn't have needed snacks in the first place.

In 2012 Congress passed a law restricting whole milk in schools to codify the Obama EO.

Sadly, while this bill makes milk not counted towards the 10% limit on saturated fat, it leaves the limit in place, a ridiculous overreach by government in the first place Government should be getting out of the food business entirely. I suppose if it's a subsidized meal program they have some say, but it really is none of their business what kids eat at a government school where the youths are mandated to attend.

Dietary restrictions by government is as onerously paternalistic as can be imagined A free society has the right to choose what food it wants

At any rate this is a welcome development It's too bad Congress didn't go farther.

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