{"id":47422,"date":"2025-11-21T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47422\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:43:10","slug":"sen-schumer-announces-bipartisan-bill-for-more-milk-options-in-new-york-schools-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47422\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Schumer Announces Bipartisan Bill for More Milk Options in New York Schools | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Milk\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/692080a108d92.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Students across New York will soon have more milk options in their school cafeterias.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer announced the Senate&#8217;s passage of the bipartisan Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which he supported.<\/p>\n<p>This legislation allows schools to offer unflavored and flavored whole and reduced-fat milk.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer said this change will benefit both students&#8217; health and Upstate New York dairy farmers. &#8220;This is a win-win for local New York dairy farmers who can sell their products and kids who will have more healthy and delicious drink options at lunchtime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 highlights milk&#8217;s health benefits.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s dairy industry, with nearly 3,000 farms producing over 16.1 billion pounds of milk annually, is a major contributor to the State&#8217;s agricultural economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Students across New York will soon have more milk options in their school cafeterias. U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1880,26891,26892,9,11,10,12017,49,24727,817],"class_list":["post-47422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-new-york","tag-milk","tag-milk-options","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-schools","tag-new-york-state","tag-schumer","tag-upstate-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}