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Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding
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Maybe it will get people to start drinking plant based milk if the price of course milk skyrockets like it has with eggs. All the IGF-1 in dairy isn't good for you and could even be part of the reason for the rise in colorectal cancer (the amount of dairy we consume nowadays in nuts).
I usually have a little milk around the house for cooking sauces and things. Something like soy or almond milk don't make good substitutes. I can't remember the last time I just drank a glass of milk.
I haven't had cows milk in years. Somehow all my sauces and things are still turning out delicious! Lots of plant milk is flavored or sweetened. Buying regular/unsweetened almond or oat milk will work for most cases. I am extremely partial to oat milk and I would honestly drink a glass of it
I wish oat milk didn’t tear my guts up, because it’s easily the best plant milk I’ve had.
I've heard that pea milk tastes pretty neutral
I’ll have to give it a try if I ever see some, I think all I’ve ever seen here are soy, almond, rice, and oat.
It drives me fucking nuts that in the US sweetened soy/almond milk is the default. Sometimes the unsweetened even costs a few cents more.
Haha corn subsidies go brrrrrrrr
Have you tried powdered milk? I like it because it's shelf stable. We use plant milk for most drinks and cereal, powdered milk for cooking.
Colour me intrigued, have never come across it before..
..and brand recommendations for the zero-sugar variety?
I mainly drink milk in the form of half and half for coffee. Obviously, plant milk is garbage for this purpose.
I use almond, soy, and/or oat milk for my coffee and tea and like it alright. Different strokes for different folks.
Really it's not. Grocery chains carry good alternatives even in really rural areas nowadays. If you haven't tried one in the last few years the options out now are quite a bit better. I typically use Planet Oat in my coffee.
dude, people literally ate nothing but potatoes and milk for the longest time. it's the direct reason why we had industrialization at all. because people could live off milk and potatoes without owning large plots of land. it was revolutionary. so i find it very hard to believe that we would be consuming more dairy nowadays versus our ancestors, who literally had nothing else to eat.
It's not just the milk but also other products like cheese. "In 2001, Americans consumed 30 pounds of cheese per person, 8 times more than they did in 1909 and more than twice as much as they did in 1975. "
Which since then it's continued to rise and in 2022 was like 42 pounds.
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I love my cheese I tell ya hwat.
They'd probably raise the price of alternative milk as well to match, just to price gauge people
The price of alternative bean juices is pre-gouged. It does not take $8/gallon to blend oats. It does not take $8/gallon to blend soybeans. It costs far far far more than $4/gallon to raise a cow, keep the female cows pregnant, destroy the male calves that result, and feed the cows sufficiently to both raise another living cow (50% of which are immediately trashed) and produce viable milk.
It only costs $4/gal right now because we are paying for you with our tax dollars.
Don't cows eat oats as well? That would be able to be turned into just oat milk.
Hard agree. From an environmental (low water use), supply chain (we already grow a lot of it to feed livestock), and arguably flavour perspective it's the winner of the nut milks.