to think the free milk in nursery/school should be Organic?

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And full fat. We have semi skimmed???

Full fat, yes, organic, no.

I don't think i needs to be either, happy with non organic and semi skimmed.

It was changed from full fat to semi skimmed due to the childhood obesity problem

Organic would be nice but i think for the problem its trying to solve, free milk is fine

I've only ever seen one child of nursery age that is obese the rest are all stick thin lollipop types. They NEED a full fat diet (providing they're being normal preschoolers and running round like loons!)

YABU. Why organic? Does it matter that much? Long as it full fat or aleast semi skimmed I'm not fussed. Never bought anything organic myself so don't see the fuss tbh. "Normal" kis just as healthy isn't it.

I can't stand this obsession with semi skimmed. I can count the fat kids in my primary school on one hand. The underweight ones however, are frighteningly common. Bring back full fat milk!

I have a bit of a thing about the demonisation of full fat milk (which is only 4% fat after all) but apparantly it is ok for children to have semi-skinned.

I just remember my work colleagues being horrified when I bought full fat milk one day and telling me why it was so bad whilst dunking hob nob biscuits into their tea.

If the milk should be reduced fat because of obesity, isn't it time to scrap free milk? That doesn't add up.

For over 5s should be semi skimmed but yes at nursery should be full fat but organic more expensive so no, not organic.

You can start giving semi skimmed from age 2 upwards, so I don't see any problem with it - and many parents will actively want their child to be given it. Short of giving each set of parents a choice, it seems a reasonable decision.

And why organic? nothing wrong with the ordinary stuff! If you want to pay extra for organic at home then fine, your choice, but why should everyone have to have it because you prefer it? And why should the taxpayer have to pay extra for it?

YADBU

It's a small carton of milk, which is free and possibly streching the budget as it is - if you want organic then you are talking double the cost.

I thought full fat milk was only for under 2s. I give mine semi skimmed once they get past the age of 2.

Is it true that organic milk has more pus in it? Or is DH just trying to freak me out?

organic only if you are personally willing to fund it.

Organic stuff is a luxury and not one that can be supported by taxpayers.

Added to that most people don't give a fuck about organic stuff - you have to go with the majority in this case.

YABU. It's free and nutritious. It's optional too, by the way.

And the 1 year olds are drinking this too remember - they should have full fat shouldn't they??

Orgainc because infants raised on organic dairy products are a third less likely to suffer from allergies in the first two years of life. Organic milk has 71 per cent more Omega 3 than conventional milk because of the cows' clover-rich natural diet. Organic milk doesn't contain any pesticides, added hormones or antibiotics.

You've got to be fucking kidding. Everything from elderly care to libraries is being cut and you want free organic milk? You want organic, buy it youself.

Why do they have free milk anyway?

Yes I'm sure organic is lovely and good for them, but most children don't get organic at home because it costs more. Why should I have to pay extra tax to pay for your child to have something all the time, when I can't afford it for my child? (Hypothetically, as my child is now 17...)

As for organic, I buy all meat and dairy produce organic and as much organic fruit and veg as possible. But you can't control what they eat all the time so I don't get uptight about what they eat at parties or when having tea at a friend's house etc. It would be prohibitively expensive to supply organic milk.

I agree with Ballarat why are they being given milk at all? It isn't actually needed.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to drink semi-skimmed, I used to do all that stuff then I realised once you take the fat out of something you pretty much automatically increase the sugar/carb load of it.

So it is double cream in coffee here and full fat milk if the kids want any.

Do they have free milk? We pay £9.00 per school year for ours (so virtually free I suppose). I wouldn't be pleased if they asked us to pay more for organic though. Not as if my DC get organic milk at home. Or organic anything for that matter, total waste of money.

I dont know about the numbers of obese toddler tbh, i just asked ds's nursery why they were giving 'green milk' instead of 'blue'.

DD only finished preschool last yr and she had full fat.

The nursery said that they got milk delivered, paid for by LA and it had been changed to semi skimmed as children were getting too fat.

The contract to deliver milk is probably the same for the nurseries and schools though so would be for under and just over 5s.

Well I don't buy organic coz it's too damn expensive. And that's for 3 people. Imagine how much it would cost to feed hundreds of thousands organic milk every single day. Bet it costs a lot as it is with boring old bog standard milk.

The nursery should be able to get full fat for the under 2s, and semi skimmed for the over 2s.