USDA taking comments on soy milk to public skools! go get em kids!!

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This is from PETA's teachers' network:

 

June 5, 2002

 

Dear Educators:

 

The Special Nutrition Program, part of the Food and Nutrition Service under the

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is now taking comments about adding soy

and rice drinks as alternatives to milk to the food programs in our nation's

public schools. Currently, funding is not readily available for these

alternatives and schools are only required to provide them to students with

medical conditions that require such an option.

 

With enough support from the public—especially from students, parents, and

educators the Special Nutrition Program will draft a legislative proposal asking

Congress to amend the Child Nutrition Acts to make available alternatives to

milk in school cafeterias.

Please call and write, and ask all your friends and family to do the same, in

support of the addition of soy and rice drinks to the food programs in our

public schools.

 

Peter Murano, Associate Deputy Administrator

Special Nutrition Program

USDA Food and Nutrition Service

3101 Park Center Dr.

Rm. 510

Alexandria, VA 22302

Tel.: 703-305-2052

Fax: 703-305-2782

 

For additional information on making school lunch programs more

vegan-friendly, contact the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

at http://www.pcrm.org/

and ask about The Gold Plan and The Rite Bite Nutritional Curriculum.

 

These programs even include institutional-sized menus for use in schools.

 

For more information about living dairy-free, check out GoVeg.com and

DumpDairy.com.

 

Thank you for all you do for the animals.

 

Take care,

Holly Quaglia

Humane Educator

PETA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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