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Article: Now, a word in defense of milk; Flimsy claims are giving an otherwise healthy food a bad rap and feeding its decline as a staple in the American diet.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 4, 2000
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"Got milk?" cries the National Dairy Council, seeking to reverse or at least stem a half-century decline in per capita consumption of this nutrient-packed beverage.
"Got beer?" countered the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit organization that promotes milk-free vegetarian diets and in 1992 denounced the feeding of cows' milk to children.
Although the committee dropped its counterattack when the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided to add soy milk as a "dairy" option in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the milk wars continue to rage. Hardly a month passes without another accusation hurdled at milk as less than an ideal food. Among recent ...