‘Dairy State’ Lawmakers Want to Mandate Butter, Not Margarine, in School Lunches

Wisconsin lawmakers introduced legislation on Nov. 14 which would prevent schools from serving margarine instead of butter to help support the state’s dairy industry.

Wisconsin lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation to prohibit all schools in the dairy state from serving margarine instead of butter in school lunches.   

Co-authors Rep. Todd Novak, R-Dodgeville, and Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, who both grew up on Wisconsin farms, argued schools should use butter to support local farms and the state’s dairy industry. 

“After attending a local Farm Bureau meeting, I was shocked to hear a local school was no longer serving butter with lunches, but instead an artificial alternative with a long list of ingredients,” Novak said in a statement.

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