Like the Cheshire cat…
Well, it made me laugh. Also, the car needs washing.
We had something of a milk panic over the weekend. The Twitterati got hold of the news that Bovaer, a feed product that supposedly makes cows fart 27% less methane, has been introduced into dairy herds on 30 farms. People no likee.
Turns out, the FDA approved it earlier this year after “a multi-year” study, so you’re probably getting it too.
Arla, a Danish/Swedish dairy cooperative, provides a ginormous number of milk-based products in this country and is starting to introduce it. Like, the only sure defense is to buy from a known farm or go organic. I hate organic because I think it’s a rip, but you can’t label a milk product organic if you use feed additives.
There’s been a mad scramble to find local dairy farms (it’s legal to sell raw milk at the farm gate here). I’ve never tried it, but people say it tastes amazing. Also, I know someone who knows someone who got TB drinking raw milk. So whatever.
On the whole, I suspect Bovaer metabolizes into something harmless, like the FDA claimed when they approved it. The farmers who have to handle the stuff raw have a different risk profile, though, and I’m not sure it won’t eventually have an impact on the cows.
I mean, you’re shifting their microbiome. I believe in microbiome. I tend my microbiome like a beautiful garden.
Have you ever tried raw milk?
Posted: December 2nd, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 7
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Comment from prm
Time: December 2, 2024, 10:12 pm
Yup. I get it from a local farm. Tastes great, kids won’t drink crappy normal milk now.
Comment from Veeshir
Time: December 3, 2024, 12:45 am
I used to get pasteurized but unhomogenized milk from a dairy farmer next door.
It’s pretty good. More rich as the cream isn’t skimmed off the top.
I liked it.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: December 3, 2024, 2:08 am
Yes, right from the spigot in fact.
During “milk fights” in the barn.
That’s like, a thousand years ago.
These days we get organic, because although it costs more…
A) it tastes better
B) you can buy milk in November, that will last until the middle of January.
Homogenized milk won’t last that long.
Three boys, we used to go through a lot of milk.
Then just the 2 of us, we’d ended up turfing half a gallon because it would go sour before we used it up.
When you’re dumping half of it because it’s gone by, your price just went up right?
So we swapped to organic, and haven’t had to dump milk down the drain since.
Comment from Joe
Time: December 3, 2024, 5:22 am
organic. / ôr-găn′ĭk / Involving organisms or the products of their life processes. Relating to chemical compounds containing carbon, especially hydrocarbons.
I was doing an Instacart shop the other day and the order insisted on “organic” strawberries. The grocery store clerk said they were completely out. When I asked them to confirm that the regular strawberries didn’t have any carbon at all in them, they assured me they didn’t.
Think of all the poor people out there that can’t afford “organic” produce and eat these indigestible clumps of minerals.
Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: December 3, 2024, 2:37 pm
We used to drink raw milk, and it was wonderful. No one got sick.
Then we lost our supplier because of legal things. It was sad. No more milk for us, although we do get cream for the coffee. I’d rather have the raw milk.
Comment from aelfheld
Time: December 3, 2024, 5:13 pm
“Also, I know someone who knows someone who got TB drinking raw milk. So whatever.”
I do know of a relatively local small dairy farm (this is Texas) that had to shut down because of brucellosis.
Comment from frenchjeton
Time: December 4, 2024, 12:13 am
Grew up on a dairy farm. Drank whole, raw milk only. Family of nine got along healthy enough. Numerous other family members, and friends were dairy farmers, also — no problems.
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