{"id":17157,"date":"2021-03-30T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17157"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:10:29","slug":"national-bill-introduced-to-allow-whole-milk-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/national-bill-introduced-to-allow-whole-milk-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL BILL INTRODUCED TO ALLOW WHOLE MILK IN SCHOOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vrg-logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vrg-logo-2.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/vrg-logo-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Glen Thompson, a Republican from Pennsylvania\nand&nbsp;Antonio Delgado, a Democrat from New York, introduced the Whole Milk\nfor Healthy Kids Act of 2021 that would allow flavored and unflavored whole\nmilk into school cafeterias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Pennsylvania Farm Bureau spokesperson said, \u201cThink about\nhow much our tastes are shaped when we\u2019re kids, and then those habits carry\nthrough to adulthood. So we\u2019re basically losing a generation of milk drinkers\nif kids are not enjoying the milk that they\u2019re getting in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See story at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribdem.com\/news\/thompson-introduces-bill-to-allow-whole-milk-in-schools\/article_d393ec4e-839c-11eb-aa1e-2ffe46430c7b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tribdem.com\/news\/thompson-introduces-bill-to-allow-whole-milk-in-schools\/article_d393ec4e-839c-11eb-aa1e-2ffe46430c7b.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a YouGov\npoll commissioned this year by The Vegetarian Resource Group, 23% of 8- to 17-year-olds during the week usually\nconsume plant-based milks. The poll results will be posted soon at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll\">vrg.org\/nutshell\/faq.htm#poll<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Thompson, a Republican from Pennsylvania and&nbsp;Antonio Delgado, a Democrat from New York, introduced the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2021 that would allow flavored and unflavored whole milk into school cafeterias. A Pennsylvania Farm Bureau spokesperson said, \u201cThink about how much our tastes are shaped when we\u2019re kids, and then those habits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17159,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions\/17159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}