Milk Cows and Dairy Production

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imp

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This chart, if all goes well and it is legible, gives interesting insight into how milk production varies by season, area, etc. The numbers of milk cows are incredibly high, IMO. imp

 

When I clicked submit, it came up "Webpage Failure". Nonetheless, after logging off, and logging back in, here it is: BUT, it is now showing in the list under "Health".

MATRIX?? imp
 
I would think this is a "Health"-related topic.

That number of cows IS impressive! I wonder how the fat content has risen?
 

I would be concerned about the rate of Hormones used. It is one of the reasons I have used non- pasteurized milk in the past from a farm. Oh and never once have I gotten sick. ^.^
 
Arachne said:
I would be concerned about the rate of Hormones used. It is one of the reasons I have used non- pasteurized milk in the past from a farm. Oh and never once have I gotten sick. ^.^
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Yes, hormones, more specifically antibiotics I think, have been talked about since I was a teenager. 'Course, Pasteurization would likely not affect additives content but is intended to destroy Tuberculosis bacteria. Maybe more significant than intentionally-added materials are radioactive isotopes consumed as cows ate (eat?) grasses contaminated by fallout from bomb tests. When I was a kid, the news broadcasts daily mentioned the current levels of Strontium-90 being found in local milk supplies. Since little could be done about it, beyond halting dairy product consumption, the worries gradually subsided, either by design, or attrition, I don't know which. Is Sr-90 still measurably present? Who knows. Here is a blurb about it:

[SUP]"90[/SUP]Sr is a product of nuclear fission. It is present in significant amount in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors and in nuclear fallout from nuclear tests. For thermal neutron fission as in today's nuclear power plants, the fission product yield from U-235 is 5.7%, from U-233 6.6%, but from Pu-239 only 2.0%."

See, thing here is, as old folks who were children in the '50s and '60s, we were then exposed to Sr-90 routinely in milk we consumed. Immediate threat, no, but Sr-90 is mistaken by the human mechanism as being Calcium, so similar are the two chemically, and took it up to be stored as part of our bone structures. Thus, that stored Sr-90 irradiated our little bones for many years. An immediate thought might be bone cancer incidence mid-1900s vs. now......imp
 
I try to stay away from dairy as much as possible. I do use butter and a little milk in my coffee. We buy the milk that says no hormones or additives but I recall so many times seeing cows standing in cow poop with their udders touching the ground. My daughter told her husband the first time she brought him up to the San Joaquin Valley that no matter where you drive here you smell cow manure. She was almost correct.
 
Judging by the supermarket shelves I suspect more people in the UK use semi-skimmed milk than full fat milk these days. I have never been keen on milk and just put a drop of semi-skimmed in my tea and coffee. We also use low fat margarine, having butter as an occasional treat.
 
I still drink milk from the local dairy. It tastes as good as I always remembered it tasted. When I was a kid, we got home delivery in glass bottles with a small cardboard lid and a paper wrapping on top. My mom would wash out the bottles before placing them back in the milk box on the side porch. I think the milkman used to show up around 6 in the morning. Have you ever had a glass of milk from a 100% pure Golden Guernsey cow? If not and you can find this product, just try it once. What a difference.

http://perrydellfarm.com/index.php/cows
 
oldman said:
I still drink milk from the local dairy. It tastes as good as I always remembered it tasted. When I was a kid, we got home delivery in glass bottles with a small cardboard lid and a paper wrapping on top. My mom would wash out the bottles before placing them back in the milk box on the side porch. I think the milkman used to show up around 6 in the morning. Have you ever had a glass of milk from a 100% pure Golden Guernsey cow? If not and you can find this product, just try it once. What a difference.

http://perrydellfarm.com/index.php/cows
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Coming from Guernsey I only had Guernsey Milk as a kid, but I don't like milk much. However, Guernsey cream and butter are FANTASTIC!:)
 

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