They can provide water, but the USDA has made it clear that schools cannot encourage students to drink water instead of milk.
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Yet public schools are not required to offer nondairy milk options as part of free school meals. In California, the majority of public school students are part of these communities. It affects primarily people who are Black, Latino, Native American and Asian American, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Williamson, 17, believes the USDA rules prioritize an industry’s profits over students’ health considering that many students are lactose-intolerant, a digestive condition that causes bloating, diarrhea, nausea and other symptoms. Good for Williamson to challenge the long-standing rules that unfairly protect the nation’s dairy industry from competition. Last week, she joined a lawsuit filed by the national nonprofit advocacy group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine accusing the USDA, the Los Angeles Unified School District and school administrators of violating her free speech rights. Williamson is a vegan and decided she’d rather not promote dairy milk. Department of Agriculture restrictions this year when she was prohibited from handing out literature at school about the disadvantages of drinking dairy milk unless she also provided information about its benefits. Marielle Williamson, a student at Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School, found out about the U.S.
But it has an even more powerful tool to reach school-age consumers: federal rules for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program that favor dairy milk over other beverages, including prohibiting schools from “directly or indirectly restricting the sale or marketing of dairy milk on school premises.” It’s one of several efforts by the dairy industry to encourage kids to drink milk.
Got milk? Remember the catchy ads featuring celebrities with milk mustaches from the 1990s? The advertising campaign by the California Milk Processor Board has been revamped for the 21st century using social media influencers targeting younger generations, specifically Gen Z.
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