A quiet amendment lowered the legal threshold for “dairy” from more than 50 per cent milk to just five. The people who absorb that dilution first are the ones least able to afford it.
By Calvin G. Brown, Senior Correspondent | WiredJa Online
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Picture a mother in a Hanover shop, turning over a carton stamped “dairy” and trusting that word to mean what it has always meant: protein, calcium, the building blocks her child needs. Under a quiet change to Jamaican law, that word now guarantees almost none of it.
