FREE milk for Schoolkids?

[Neferti]

If you’re one of the many who were forced to drink rancid third pints of milk at school then you, like me, have probably been turned off cow juice for life... and that’s not exactly what the dairy industry wants. But apparently it’s what Mr Xenophon wants.

Milk ain’t real milk anyway after being Pasteurised and homogenised. In its natural form it’s a growth food meant for calves and calves eventually wean themselves off it like all mammals do, but humans do not, they keep on keeping on with a concentrated animal fat that is not suited to humans and not needed past weaning anyway. And we wonder why we have obesity problems.

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[Super Nova]

I remember the plastics bags of milk, left in the heat and warm.

However it didn't hurt us to drink milk as a child. There are lots of goodness in drinking milk including calcium. Should it return to schools as a state funded big nanny force feeding milk to kids, I think not. It is up to our parents to provide the food we need not the state. The state should only intervene when individual cases of malnourishment occur.

[lisa jones]

I'm lactose intolerant.

So is my little girl.

If we try to drink normal milk, we get very sick and break out in a rash.

My point?

With so many allergies about these days, I don't think it's a good idea for schools to be providing free milk.

My suggestion?

Parents need to PARENT. That means taking charge of their children's diet, health and well being.

[Super Nova]

Agree.

[Black Orchid]

Schools cannot cater to every intolerance or allergy that a student may be susceptible to. They would have nothing to offer and the school tradition of the canteen/tuck shop would be a thing of the past. Some schools have discontinued having products with peanuts, which comprise a lot more products than just peanuts, peanut butter etc. It would include any product manufactured where traces of peanuts could be found. Why should the majority be deprived just for a small number of intolerances.

Next it will be soy products, eggs, wheat, citrus, fish and the list goes on and on and on. Where does it end? We never had these problems when I was at school, nor when my kids were. If a couple of kids had allergies they knew not to eat anything that they didn't bring from home.

It is the parents responsibility to ensure their child knows irrevocably what they can and cannot eat. No tuck shop food and only what they are given from home. Kids can swap food anywhere anytime in the playground and in situations other than school so it's the parents responsibility to take control and educate their children in such a way that they totally understand WHY they cannot eat certain foods.

Parents indeed need to parent. Schools should be aware but it is not their responsibility.

[IQS.RLOW]

All kids should be force fed milk and peanuts.

Those that are lactose intolerant and with peanut allergies can be singled out and extracted to vivisection for experiments.

I'm think along the lines of the human centipede where we can sew the peanut freaks mouths to the anus of the lactose intolerant and visa versa and feed the one at the front milk and peanuts.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Raw milk has real health benefits ... if it doesn't make you sick. Pasteurized milk does not have those benefits.

Speaking of peanuts, the hysteria around peanut allergies is another example of "the tyranny of the minority" ... like Halal food.

[IQS.RLOW]

Raw milk has real health benefits ... if it doesn't make you sick. Pasteurized milk does not have those benefits.

Such as?

[AiA in Atlanta]

Raw milk has real health benefits ... if it doesn't make you sick. Pasteurized milk does not have those benefits.

Such as?

CLA is a big one. Of course, that is only if the cow lived outside ... under the sunshine ... and ate grass.

[mantra]

Do kids even drink milk these days? I remember the little bottles of milk which we had to drink in infants and primary school. Delicious in winter - disgusting in summer. There was a lot of waste.