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Part of the process of driving reform requires building awareness of problems. That’s precisely why we are hosting the first in a new monthly series of educational seminars on major animal welfare and human well-being issues in the United States and abroad. The inaugural event [[link removed]] focuses on the dairy industry’s monopoly on nutritious beverages in the public schools: Ending the USDA's 'Milk Mandate' in Schools and Providing a Plant-Based Option for Kids.
It’s outrageous that our federal government gives kids no choice in the schools and puts a carton of milk on 30 million lunch trays every day even though perhaps 15 million of the recipients are lactose intolerant. Ten million kids choose to throw away the milk in the carton, burning $300 million in tax dollars a year and rendering the suffering of thousands of dairy cows meaningless. And millions of other kids drink the product and get sick, compromising learning in the classroom and making kids ill.
If you care about childhood nutrition and education, you want your tax dollars used in proper ways, and you care about the welfare of animals used in agricultural production, this webinar is for you. We hope you’ll register today.
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Under its current nutrition-assistance framework, the USDA won’t reimburse school districts for any nutritious alternative to cow’s milk, mandating a carton of the animal milk on every tray. Each year, the USDA spends $1 billion to reimburse school districts for buying cow’s milk, but one study from the agency estimates that 30 percent of the kids toss the cartons unopened. Add in the kids who sip and then toss the remainder, and it becomes easy to accept another study that estimates about 45 million gallons of milk each year are dumped down the drain in schools.
The National Institutes of Health reports [[link removed]] the majority of all people have a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy, with especially high rates among African Americans and Asian Americans. Lactose intolerance “is also very common in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek and Italian descent.”
What’s more, the factory farms that deliver this milk have engineered each cow to produce an extraordinary and unnatural amount of milk, as much as 25,000 pounds per cow! An enormous percentage of the animals, with their bodies taxed in extraordinary ways to produce so much milk, have inflammation of the udders, foot and leg problems, and other health issues that compromises their well-being. Then there are occasional calamities at dairy factory farms, including the death of 18,000 dairy cows overcrowded at a single mass production facility in Texas and who all perished in a fire just a few days ago.
At the webinar, we’ll discuss how the ADD SOY Act [[link removed]] gives kids food choices in the schools and also reduces the enormous demands on cows to fill so many milk cartons every day. We’ll also debunk many of the common myths about soy milk that critics are using to impede this reform.
The interactive event will feature Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy; Dotsie Bausch, Olympic athlete and president of Switch4Good, a health-and-wellness advocacy group; and Dr. Dr. Lakshman Mulpuri, chief executive of PlantsNourish.
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