CA Dairy Council fights battle on flavored milk in schools

By sharing its nutritional expertise in public forums and establishing partnerships with like-minded health professionals, Dairy Council of California is helping turn back a tide that threatens to sweep flavored milk out of California school meal programs. In just the past few months, Dairy Council efforts helped persuade the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District board to vote to preserve chocolate milk’s place in the cafeteria, and prospects for achieving the same result appear good in other regions.  Recently the Los Angeles Unified School District banned the beverage, several Bay area schools did the same, and suddenly school districts throughout California have felt the pressure to eliminate the beverage. <more> Jan. 4, 2012  Dairy Today