Why milk?
Cow’s milk isn’t “natuRal” oR “healthy” - it’S racist.
According to the USDA, 70% of the students who receive their lunch through the National School Lunch Program are people of color. These students are far more likely to be lactose normal ("intolerant") than white students. Students are only able to access a plant-based milk option if they have a doctor’s note proving they are unable to digest dairy - an option that is often inaccessible to many of the students who rely upon this program.
want to fight racism? ditch daiRy.
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Lactose Intolerance*
Food Empowerment Project | We refer to those who do not digest lactose as “lactose normal,” using the following definition: Lactose normal refers to people—often brown and black people—whose bodies do not digest the milk of a non-human animal.
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Dietary Racism
Switch 4 Good | Sixty-five percent of the global population is lactose intolerant, but there is a discrepancy between races.
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dietary racism in schools
The Hill | Twenty-eight civil rights and health care groups requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) address “dietary racism” in national school lunch programs.
