date:Mar 11, 2016
the National Dairy Council estimated that schools served about 189 million fewer half-pints of milk in 2014 than they had two years earlier, even though total public school enrollment was growing. An industry-backed study in 2013 found that school milk consumption fell 37.4 percent on days when flavored milk was not offered.
Ruth Saunders, the International Dairy Foods Association vice president for policy and legislative affairs, said many schoolchildren go without milk at home. An extra 10 ca