Why is the government obsessed with whole milk?
In January, the USDA account on X posted a
picture, possibly AI generated, of President Trump with a milk mustache. The caption was, “Drink up America. #DrinkWholeMilk.” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted what seems to be an AI
video that shows him being transported to a nightclub when he drinks milk. The caption is, “when you take that first sip of whole milk.” Whole milk is also at the top of the new food pyramid. But what’s all this for? How do we make sense of this push for whole milk, especially when milk has some unsavory ideological associations?
Brittany gets into it with
Yasmin Tayag, staff writer for
The Atlantic who covers science and the future of food, and
Andrea Freeman, Second Century Chair Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School and author of the book
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