Student Sues Her School Over Milk: "I Believe This Is Wrong"
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🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A teen in Los Angeles is suing her school, her principal, and the USDA because she’s being muzzled over milk!
School officials told Marielle Williamson that she could only talk about nondairy alternatives at her high school if she also promoted cow’s milk as well. She says that’s unfair because dairy is already heavily advertised in schools while major barriers limit access to things such as almond, oat, or soy milk even though the majority of students in her school are lactose intolerant.
Studies show that up to 80% of people of Hispanic decent are lactose intolerant and roughly 75% of students who attend public school in LA are Hispanic.
Marielle says her freedom of speech is being trampled along with the health of her classmates.
She and attorney Deborah Press join The Exam Room Podcast to sit down with “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll to discuss the extraordinary case.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room. |
| 0:03.4 | What exactly happened here to lead us to the point where you're finally in a lawsuit |
| 0:07.8 | against the USDA against the school district and your principal among others? |
| 0:13.0 | Well essentially I was seeking to hold a tabling event, a day of action with some games, |
| 0:20.5 | some raffles, some prizes, just to kind of educate students on plant-based milk and the |
| 0:27.0 | issues associated with dairy milk. |
| 0:29.6 | And I was told by my principal who was following a guideline that I could only hold this event |
| 0:38.4 | if I also had pro-dairy information as well. |
| 0:41.7 | I believe that that's wrong and that's why we're going forward with this lawsuit. |
| 0:54.7 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:58.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 1:06.6 | more than 150 countries. |
| 1:09.3 | Hi to everyone listening in Portsmouth, Virginia, Columbia, Missouri, and Tuckoo, Finland, |
| 1:16.1 | wherever you are we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:22.3 | This is a special bonus episode and it features a story that has been making headlines literally |
| 1:29.5 | around the world. |
| 1:31.8 | Big blogs, small blogs, websites, school law, NBC news, The Washington Post, the LA Times. |
| 1:40.6 | And LA is where this particular tale emanates. |
| 1:46.5 | California. |
| 1:48.3 | Now you would think that Wisconsin is the number one dairy state in the US but it's not. |
| 1:55.6 | It is in fact California that produces the most milk. |
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