Critics of the United Kingdom's school milk program are becoming more vocal, challenging the widespread national assumption that drinking milk is good for children.
"From Winston Churchill's wartime order to keep the milk flowing, which was formalized under the 1946 School Milk Act ... the idea that it is natural, healthy and an essential part of a good diet has been unchallenged," writes Andrew Marszal in The Telegraph.
That consensus is wavering. Recently, junior health minister Anne Milton suggested that the national program to provide free milk for children under five should abolished. And research continues to emerge that milk is neither an essential nor healthy part of the human diet.'
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Ok, whatever.
ReplyDeleteI was born in the UK and we got milk in primary school and it didn't do us any harm. I have strong nails and teeth with no fillings (of course I lived in Africa as well, so that is a factor to consider)
However, these days everyone has allergies to this or that because of all the chemicals that is put into the food chain affecting the plants, animals and eventually humans.