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Dairy industry wants national school milk program revived to improve health of school-aged children – ABC News
Australia’s dairy industry wants to bring a milk program back into schools to help address a significant shortfall in the dairy intake of school-aged children.
It has been almost 50 years since Australia had a national school milk program, but some remember piercing those foil caps with paper straws as if it were yesterday.
Key points:
- Some in the dairy industry say the reintroduction of a school milk program would help children’s nutrition
- The free national school milk program ran from the 1950s to the 1970s
- One dairy farmer says the reintroduction would also help support the dairy industry
Now Australia’s dairy in…
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