Chocolate milk: better than no milk? -- latimes.com:
"Reporting from Chicago - The dairy industry recently rolled out an expensive media campaign in praise of chocolate milk, a classic school lunch drink that's under assault for its sugar content. As trade groups spend upward of $1 million to defend the drink, three fifth-graders have come to its rescue.
A year after the school district in Barrington, Ill., banned flavored milk from its elementary- and middle-school lunch menus, students persuaded administrators to give it another chance.
'Kids weren't drinking the white milk,' said Haley Morris, 10. 'It's better to have the chocolate milk than nothing.'"
"Reporting from Chicago - The dairy industry recently rolled out an expensive media campaign in praise of chocolate milk, a classic school lunch drink that's under assault for its sugar content. As trade groups spend upward of $1 million to defend the drink, three fifth-graders have come to its rescue.
A year after the school district in Barrington, Ill., banned flavored milk from its elementary- and middle-school lunch menus, students persuaded administrators to give it another chance.
'Kids weren't drinking the white milk,' said Haley Morris, 10. 'It's better to have the chocolate milk than nothing.'"
