In 2019, Mayor Eric Adams, then the Brooklyn Borough President, posted a "Do the Math" video in assist of a proposal for the town Division of Training to scrap chocolate milk due to its sugary content material.
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9 members of New York’s congressional delegation are urging health-conscious Mayor Eric Adams to not ban chocolate milk from being supplied in New York Metropolis’s public college cafeterias.
The bipartisan group claimed they had been involved about college students’ well being in addition to defending upstate New York’s dairy market.
“As Members representing each rural and concrete communities, we're dedicated to supporting the dairy farmers, producers, and agriculture companions throughout New York, whereas additionally guaranteeing that youngsters in NYC faculties have entry to essential, life-enhancing vitamins,” the Congress members stated.
“Sadly, for a lot of NYC households, the meals youngsters obtain in faculties are their solely supply of many beneficial vitamins.”
The letter was signed by Democratic Reps. Antonio Delgado, Grace Meng and Sean Patrick Maloney and Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin, Claudia Tenney, Chris Jacobs, Tom Reed and John Katko.
Chocolate milk supporters have trigger for concern about Adams turning into the brand new well being nanny akin to former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who sought to ban the sale of enormous sugary drinks and did reach outlawing trans fat in eating places and smoking in bars and eating places and different public locations.
Adams, the previous Brooklyn borough president who switched to a largely vegan food plan after being identified with diabetes and has already ordered up plant-based meals as soon as in every week in faculties, posted a “Do the Math” video in 2019 in assist of a proposal for the town Division of Training to scrap chocolate milk due to its sugary content material.
Within the video presentation, Adams confirmed how a lot sugar was in a big glass of chocolate milk.
“Chocolate milk is loaded with additional sugar and causes sort 2 diabetes and weight problems and different well being points,” Adams stated.
“But we proceed to serve it as a substitute. As an alternative of serving our kids drinks that set them up for a lifetime of well being issues, we ought to be giving them higher choices, comparable to water.”
Stefanik stated Adams has sufficient issues on his plate with out turning into the meals czar.
“Mayor Adams’ priorities are out-of-touch. As an alternative of cracking down on the numerous crises plaguing New York Metropolis, together with a violent crime disaster spurred on by Far-Left insurance policies that demean the police, New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams is targeted on banning chocolate milk in New York Metropolis faculties,” Stefanik, who represents the upstate North Nation stated.
“In Upstate New York and the North Nation, we're proud to drink milk, particularly chocolate milk! Flavored milk is likely one of the finest methods for teenagers to realize the important dairy vitamins, and I'll proceed to work to extend milk entry for college students throughout New York public faculties.”
Within the letter, the congress members stated two-thirds of milk served in class is flavored and argued that chocolate milk is an “important manner that children get the vitamins they want for wholesome progress and improvement.
“Analysis finds that youngsters who drink flavored milk eat extra vitamins of concern like calcium, vitamin D, and potassium in comparison with non-flavored milk drinkers,” they stated.
The lawmakers additionally stated eliminating chocolate milk will simply result in extra milk waste as a result of fewer youngsters will drink common milk.
“Research have additionally proven that flavored milk consumption will not be related to weight achieve or perhaps a larger whole each day sugar consumption in youngsters,” they stated.
In addition they cited research that chocolate milk falls underneath sugar ranges deemed unhealthy.
The lawmakers stated there may be sturdy bipartisan assist for federal laws — the College Milk Diet Act and Complete Milk for Wholesome Children Act — that might develop flavored milk choices in class lunchrooms.
“We strongly urge you to proceed providing youngsters the selection of flavored milk every day in New York Metropolis faculties,” the Congress members stated.
An Adams spokesperson responded, “Now we have acquired the letter, we are going to evaluation and we are going to make a willpower of what's finest for our college students.”
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