Trump signs a law returning whole milk to school lunches

[riversedge]

Source: AP


By JONEL ALECCIA


Updated 3:06 PM CST, January 14, 2026

Whole milk is heading back to school cafeterias across the country after President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday overturning Obama-era limits on higher-fat milk options.

Nondairy drinks such as fortified soy milk may also be on the menu in the coming months following adoption of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which cleared Congress in the fall.

The action allows schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to serve whole and 2% fat milk along with the skim and low-fat products required since 2012.

“Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, whole milk is a great thing,” Trump said at a White House signing ceremony that featured lawmakers, dairy farmers and their children.

The law also permits schools to serve nondairy milk that meets the nutritional standards of milk and requires schools to offer a nondairy milk alternative if kids provide a note from their parents, not just from doctors, saying they have a dietary restriction..............



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[riversedge]

1. ....the Ag Dept sent a social media post showing Trump with a glass of milk and a "milk mustache"

Anything the Obama's did--we can be sure Trump and his goons will demolish!!



..............Earlier this week, the Agriculture Department sent a social media post showing Trump with a glass of milk and a “milk mustache” that declared: “Drink Whole Milk.”

The change could take effect as soon as this fall, though school nutrition and dairy industry officials said it may take longer for some schools to gauge demand for full-fat dairy and adjust supply chains.

Long sought by the dairy industry, the return of whole and 2% milk to school meals reverses provisions of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act championed by former first lady Michelle Obama. Enacted more than a dozen years ago, the law aimed to slow obesity and boost health by cutting kids’ consumption of saturated fat and calories in higher-fat milk.

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[Callie1979]

7. Oh, thats MILK! I thought he'd just had another meeting with Putin.

Sorry......

[MorbidButterflyTat]

16. First he saves Christmas and now he saves milk!

How fucking stupid. He looks so tough, with the table holding him up.

Fucking panderers.

No way he drank any milk. NO WAY.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

22. Check out his hands ...

Is it just me or are his fists half the size of his head in this photo?

Maybe it's perspective? Maybe it's Photoshop/AI?

But it's almost certainly deliberate.

[mwb970]

2. OK, I'm not going to lie.

I use 3% full-fat milk for everything. 2% milk is insipid, Full skim is white water. Am I wrong??

[truthisfreedom]

5. I LOVE whole milk with Oreos.

Having the option is excellent. I’m sure Obama was trying to reduce fat. This is a non-issue. Where’s the Epstein files?

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Same here, but I'm not a child and mostly it's on cereal.

2% tastes like a drink that's been watered. IMO, neither that nor skim are drinkable.

[mwb970]

11. I use it for tea and for some recipes, like soup

But I wouldn't just pour out a glass and drink it.

Have you heard Shelley Berman's bit on milk? Look up "Black Speck In the Milk" on YouTube. It's a hoot.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Now and then I'll drink from the carton.

But that's rare. I used cream in my tea, just like it better.

I may have heard it years ago, but can't remember it. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to check it out.

[PCB66]

15. My wife grew up on a diary farm

and she hates milk.

On the other hand I love it. Almost my favorite beverage. My favorite is Dr Pepper.

[Igel]

19. The existence of cream is the justification for skim milk.

I like skim milk. For some purposes.

I like whole milk. For some purposes.

I like cream. For some purposes. (Butter too, but I repeat myself.)

If I'm going to be out working 10 hours mowing, raking, weeding, pruning, muching ... Just give me a gallon of raw milk in the morning and call my consumption of it by quitting time "average lunch", as opposed to lunch as a function of time.

Call it "pro-choice."

(As for the Obama-era insipidification of school lunches ... The amount of student lunch 'food' tossed, abandoned, even just plain chucked ... all uneaten ... was amazing. And this high school teacher saw capitalism in action--many of my classes had at least one person with a small snacks stand in their overstuffed school backpacks, and some carried small ice chests. Sodas, Cheetos, Doritos, chips, candy bars, cookies ... They'd buy $20 in snacks and take home $60 at the end of the day. Junk food as drug. They luved them them the Obama-era food bans. While guv stats said how many 'healthy' meals were 'consumed' ... Making the half-assed assumption that all student lunches carried away from the serving line were actually eaten. Maybe I should reduce the fat in that to "eighth-assed assumption." Or specify "non-fat half-assed". BTW, my now-ex and I would regularly buy student lunches--teachers can do that. New rules, after a couple of attempts we decided that we couldn't tolerate the stuff. But somewhere a bureaucrat got its wings and soared to a far higher pay grade.)

[Aristus]

25. I haven't heard that one. But I love his bit on buttermilk.

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[riversedge]

14. I grew up on a dairy farm so it was allways milk straight from the cows. As an adult

I gradually went to 2%. and enjoy it with mainly with sandwiches--or when I bake which is not often.

No skim milk for me.

[Sneederbunk]

3. TSF hypnotized by milk bottle.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

17. Probably dreaming of Vladdy

[DBoon]

4. Woody Allen predicted the future

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.

- Sleeper, 1973

[tishaLA]

6. This is making America healthy again?

[Igel]

20. And what we've done for the last 20 years has made America healthier?

In some ways, yes--sure. But remove smoking, that's a plus.

But recent research--fallow the psy-ants, follow the science--says that milk fatty acids are sort of indeterminate. They don't help, they don't hurt.

So they must be destroyed with fire, I guess.

This is a small sidebar discussion among friends at a side group at a bar following a trial. Not much discussed because it's hard to make distinctions between varieties of saturated fats.

Want the fun bit? "Seed oils." Now that's ear-to-ear mental kudzu.

(Full disclosure. Years ago I read how horrible beef was for the environment--global warming! Even worse, much of the energy used to produce beef was utterly wasted. Which was reported as "food value" or some such verbiage.

(Here's the problem: Fat is high energy, lean meat much lower. I slow-cook my brisket and get a crapload of fat off of it and dump it, that fat's probably got the energy value of the bulk of the mass that I do eat--even worse is when I cut away the fat from the lump of flesh on my plate.

(So I assumed the report as to why cow was bad for atmosphere was right and drew the logical conclusion. To justify cow usage I should use the energy in all that cow fat. So I do. Haven't bought soap in 20 years. All that excess, uneaten cow fat becomes soap. Note that commercial soap also usually uses tallowate. Pig and sheep tallow produces really hard, brittle, soap, beef tallow is pretty good, but still a bit hard and brittle.

(Mixing in my love for outing hypocrisy, fowl may be 'greener' but it, also, has a lot of wasted energy in all the fat. I harvest the schmaltz--yeah, chicken fat, but I extend that to turkey fat--and my cooking 'oil' is about 50-50, schmaltz and maybe rapeseed, maybe peanut, maybe soybean. Lately I've been favoring soybean because soybean farmers and Trump.)

[Kablooie]

9. Well, in the overall scheme of things, I don't see this as a hill to die on.

I personally don't see this as a major issue either way.
Whole milk is better than soft drinks for kids in any case.

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. Let's talk about ANYTHING other than Epstein.

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Tomorrow he will decree a Ronald MacDonald national holiday.

[riversedge]

13. Trump: I look forward to getting it all the time. I open a refrigerator and I say: milk with rice, milk with water, milk

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Trump: I look forward to getting it all the time. I open a refrigerator and I say: milk with rice, milk with water, milk with everything… that’s what I like.

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[Igel]

21. it's said he doesn't drink.

But if I insisted on milk in beer or milk in wine ...

[travelingthrulife]

18. Boy, when that adderal wears off he crashes hard.

[CTyankee]

23. Are we done with the milk issue? Is there anything left to discuss?

I know, I should be asking Trump but he is unavailable. Let's put it down as yet another insane move. If I am missing something, let me know.

[Bengus81]

24. EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES

[MIButterfly]

26. He's so concerned about what kind of milk kids drink in school

but doesn't do anything at all about keeping them safe from guns in school.

SMH.