Saturday, September 1, 2012

More about Milk and Choice « Diane Ravitch's blog

More about Milk and Choice « Diane Ravitch's blog:


More about Milk and Choice

A teacher in New York City wrote to tell me that he worked in the dairy industry for many years before becoming a teacher.
When he read about Jeb Bush touting the virtues of choosing schools the way we choose milk, he laughed.
Did you know, he wrote, that a small number of big corporations control the dairy industry. No matter what label is on the carton, the odds are that you are buying from agri-business, not a small producer. There are really only