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Milk WTF
Topic Started: 1 Dec 2012, 10:26 PM (1,382 Views)
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'The nutritional quality of most supermarket milk wouldn't hold a candle to the pinta delivered to our doorstep all those years ago'

On the Reading estate where I grew up in the early 1950s, our milk was from a local dairy.

Our two pints of silver top would arrive daily on the doorstep, each with a thick band of yellow cream stretching one-third of the way down the bottle - a sure sign that the cows had been grazing up to their hocks in clover-rich grassland.

In those days, full-fat milk was considered a ‘protective food’, one that would keep you fit and free of disease.

All I know is that my brother and I invariably squabbled over who was to get ‘the top of the milk’ on our breakfast porridge.

The dairy had been set up by a local farmer in the 1920s.

Then, as now, milk producers were being crippled by rising costs and the meagre prices paid by powerful dairy companies.

Entrepreneurial farmers responded by setting up retail rounds in nearby towns and villages in a bid to make a better living for their families.

Though the pre-war economy was deep in recession, it was a period of expansion in the British dairy industry.

By the time my brother and I were racing each other to the morning pintas, our Berkshire dairy was supplying half the town.
http://www.iconocast.com/07-22-2012/24/Why-milk-has-gone-sour-Tasteless-stripped-of-nutrients-churned-out-by-battery-cows-who.php


Edited by mel, 5 Dec 2012, 07:19 AM.
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peter fraser
3 Dec 2012, 11:35 PM
The permeate free milk is merely a marketing ploy. I was a milk wholesaler for some years.

That is my view as well. The whole permeate marketing ploy was a direct response to the big supermarket chains pricing wars on milk.


The marketing ploy has obviously made an impact, woolies milk is now being labelled as permeate free....
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