[SCA-AE] Choc. Milk

[Lady Giovanna DaNapoli]

Beef......
   
  It's What's For Dinner....lol
   
  Lady G.

Alaxandair O'Conchobhair <alaxandair at gmail.com> wrote:
  So with all this talk about Chocolate milk, is this our equivalent of
beating a horse to death? We're just going to use cow instead?


A.



On 5/24/08, Tim Button wrote:
> Greetings from Tigranes,
>
> Eirik,
>
> The farm you worked at must have been quite different from our family farm
> and those of our neigbors when I was growing up. (It was in New York, which
> may explain it, or very much larger than any of the ones around here) We
> and our neighbors were all members of a cooperative call Eastern Milk
> Producers. Eastern (and other co-ops) was set up to provide uniform service
> and standards for the farms that belonged to the co-op.
>
> Milk was picked up by an Eastern truck, then taken to a creamery where it
> was tested, processed, then distributed to different bottlers, processors
> (butter, cheese, etc.). It was impossible to know where "our" milk wound
> up, since it was mixed up with all the other milk from the other farms on
> the tanker driver's route, then mixed with all the milk from the other
> tankers at the creamery, etc. etc.
>
> I don't understand why the concept of reprocessing seems so unusual as to be
> deemed a "wives tale." Huge quantities of milk are unsold by the "sell by"
> date, and it would be an incredible waste of economic and environmental
> resources to just throw it away. The process is regulated and monitored by
> the appropriate agencies, just as the milk that comes in direct from the
> farms. Not all of it is reprocessed into chocolate milk (the demand is not
> that high), and not all of it is even processed into food items. Glue,
> paint, health and beauty products, etc. use milk, and not all of is is
> obtained direct from the farm.
>
> There are a lot of standard, govt. approved procedures in the food
> processing industry that would make folks swear off the product if the whole
> picture was known. If the chocolate milk subject causes this big an
> uproar, let's never try to discuss eating sausage ; )
>
> Tigranes
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