I Remember Free School Milk

It was at my first primary school, aged 4, Mrs. Brown's class. Today I am astounded at how many people buy skimmed, semi-skimmed and low fat milk.

The school is still there. That particular classroom a brick building with I think a high vaulted ceiling. We had a a wood or coal fire stove around which was a wrought iron guard. Mrs. Brown’s Pekinese dog had a basket beside the stove. We would lay any wet or damp clothing over the iron rail and every morning we had small silver topped bottles of full fat milk. I think there were gold topped bottles that were even creamier. The cream would rise to the top of the milk within the bottle. I believe we had straws or simply swigged straight from the bottle. We knew bots were boys and girls were girls.

We had hardly any fat kids at school. I don’t recall any child or student as over-weight as kids are today. These days, we even have a mindset that decries describing others as fat as ‘hate crime’.

The idea that today schools have been enforcing face masks upon students and jabbing children for no good reason, is horrific. I do not believe we had a public health emergency; we did have a widely implemented disastrous covid1984 policy.

School Milk
Apparently, it was Margaret Thatcher who terminated the free milk within schools, to save money. Perhaps not one of her better ideas. Below are extracts from UK Parliament Hansard. It’s interesting that Lord Boothby was in favour of returning milk to schools. I understand he was a close friend of the Kray twins and sexually liberally inclined whether female, male or boys. On the other side of the debate was Lord Rothschild advocating the banning of ‘raw’ milk in favour of cooked.

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1974/mar/27/school-milk
LORD BOOTHBY 
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question which stands in my name on the Order Paper.
§The Question was as follows:
§To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they propose to restore milk in our schools.
§LORD GARNSWORTHY 
My Lords, the possibility of restoring free school milk to the pupils from whom it was withdrawn in 1971 by the Education (Milk) Act is among the many matters which the Government are considering, but no decision has yet been reached.
§LORD BOOTHBY
My Lords, is it not rather unfortunate that no decision has yet been reached, because the national milk scheme which I had the honour of introducing in another place in 1940 has 583been the foundation of the health of our new population, I believe, over the last thirty years or so? Does the noble Lord not think it is time that the Government took a decisison to restore milk to our schools?

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1946/apr/10/pasteurization-of-milk
PASTEURIZATION OF MILK.
HL Deb 10 April 1946 vol 140 cc643-75643
§2.41 p.m.
§LORD ROTHSCHILD rose to call the attention of His Majesty's Government to 644the urgent need for compulsory pasteurization of milk in as many parts of the United Kingdom as is practicable; and to move for Papers. The noble Lord said: My Lords, in spite of your Lordships' well-known indulgence towards beginners, I imagine there are few who do not feel considerable apprehension on the occasion of their maiden speech in this Chamber. I feel this particularly because there are so many noble Lords who are better qualified to speak on the Motion in my name than I am. Nevertheless, I am fortified to a certain extent by the fact that the Motion has the backing of a number of learned institutions such as the British Medical Association, the Society of Medical Officers of Health, the Joint Tuberculosis Council, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians.

§It will not be necessary for me to say much about the benefits of pasteurized milk or, as it is known in these days, heat treated milk. Your Lordships are aware that a large number of people die each year through drinking milk contaminated with the bovine tuberculosis germ.
End

Why has education, science, health and general well-being seemingly declined? This video on Harvard may give some insights.

As a result of modern day education methods and approach, we end up with the likes of this chap with a PhD who thought this was a way to keep a virus at bay…

Oh dear. I doubt Bret drinks raw milk, but I may be wrong.

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