The man who calls himself New York’s first vegan mayor has a long and complicated history with chocolate milk, which he wanted banned from schools
If New York City bans chocolate milk in schools, it would hurt upstate dairy farmers, opponents of the idea said. | Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo
The city does, however, engage in farm-to-school activities and has bought agricultural products from New York state for school meals, according to the state Education Department. In Albany, upstate lawmakers have regularly criticized any proposal to remove chocolate milk in schools. In the face of criticism, the idea of getting rid of chocolate milk in schools has also garnered ardent supporters in line with Adams’ views, who say removing it from school menus is a necessary sacrifice for children’s health.Doctors and health experts have pointed to dairy milk’s role in increasing the risk of cancers like prostate cancer — a risk that starts early in life. And milk and dairy products are thein American diets, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Ann Cooper, founder and president of the board of the Chef Ann Foundation — which supports school food professionals to serve healthy foods across the country — said students living at or below the poverty level are not getting the nutrition they need. “At the school, they only give milk,” Nunez, 15, said. “But there are people who can’t drink it and the water filters are destroyed and the juice got removed after the pandemic.”
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