<description>&lt;p&gt;60 to 70 percent of total milk sales. That’s the share of chocolate and flavored milk students buy in school cafeterias each year. Nutrition workers, parents, doctors, and the dairy industry have debated whether to keep chocolate milk in schools for over a decade. Reporter Jessica Terrell examines the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and the fight over chocolate milk to understand why attempts to reform the National School Lunch System often fail. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This episode includes an annotated transcript with links to sources used in the reporting. This podcast was created by editors at The Counter and produced by LWC Studios. It is made possible by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Counter's 6-year archive of award-winning food journalism remains accessible to the public at &lt;a href="http://thecounter.org/" target="_blank"&gt;thecounter.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; </description>

Left Over: How Corporations and Politicians Are Milking the American School Lunch

[email protected] (Anne Lim, Paulina Velasco, Kate Gallagher, Juleyka Lantigua, Erica Huang, Jessica Terrell, Michelle Baker, Kori Doran, Emma Forbes)

"It Felt Like You Were Banging Your Head Against a Wall"

MAR 15, 202330 MIN
Left Over: How Corporations and Politicians Are Milking the American School Lunch

"It Felt Like You Were Banging Your Head Against a Wall"

MAR 15, 202330 MIN

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60 to 70 percent of total milk sales. That’s the share of chocolate and flavored milk students buy in school cafeterias each year. Nutrition workers, parents, doctors, and the dairy industry have debated whether to keep chocolate milk in schools for over a decade. Reporter Jessica Terrell examines the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and the fight over chocolate milk to understand why attempts to reform the National School Lunch System often fail. 

This episode includes an annotated transcript with links to sources used in the reporting. This podcast was created by editors at The Counter and produced by LWC Studios. It is made possible by grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Counter's 6-year archive of award-winning food journalism remains accessible to the public at thecounter.org.