“Beautiful” Bill’s Passage Paves Way for Whole Milk

About this episode

The episode discusses the passage of a tax and spending bill and the efforts to reinstate whole milk in schools through the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.

A massive tax and spending bill is now law – but with half a year left, Congress now can turn its attention to getting whole milk back in schools, NMPF’s Paul Bleiberg said in a Dairy Defined podcast. “One item I'll single out first that we're hopeful to get done really in the next couple months here is the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act,” Bleiberg, NMPF’s executive vice president for government relations, said in a podcast released today. “We had a great voice vote, bipartisan voice v...

People in this episode

Guest: Paul Bleiberg

Topics covered

• whole milk
• school nutrition
• legislation
• government relations
• bipartisan support

Keywords

• whole milk
• school nutrition
• tax bill
• legislation
• NMPF

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Milk Producers Federation

Places: Congress

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