Con

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) explain in their Oct. 20, 2003 complaint to the Florida Department of Education titled "Complaint to Prohibit or Severely Restrict Sales of Flavored Milk Products in Vending Machines in Public Schools":

“As part of a campaign to increase sales, the dairy industry has recently begun marketing flavored-milk vending machines to schools. The products have been advertised as a ‘healthful’ beverage for the students and a favorable alternative to soft drinks. The reality, however, is that flavored milk products are neither healthy for students, a good alternative to soft drinks, nor a responsible product for schools to sell…

A typical nutritional analysis for a 16-ounce bottle of chocolate milk (taken from the actual nutrition label of one of the major vending-machine suppliers) reveals a staggering 460 calories; 16 grams of fat, 10 grams of which are saturated; 58 grams of sugar; 280 milligrams of sodium; and 60 milligrams of cholesterol. The same amount of Pepsi, for example, contains 0 grams of fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 25 milligrams of sodium, and only 200 calories. Remarkably, a 16-ounce serving of Pepsi even has less sugar than the chocolate milk’s 58 grams, which is equal to 14 teaspoons per bottle…

There is no medical dispute that saturated fat and cholesterol, which vending-machine milk products contain in abundance, are linked to serious health problems, including obesity and diabetes in the short term and artery-clogging heart disease and cancer in the long term.”

Oct. 20, 2003