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America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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Re: America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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jononomo wrote: post #19
toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

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We use pea milk with our kids because they're lactose intolerant. Pediatrician recommended as long as they're getting more protein and fat elsewhere in their diet (which they do). It doesn't hurt that peas don't care how they're raised and treated to produce milk. Dairy milk is not nutritionally necessary in any age cohort. If you enjoy it, that's fine of course, but it isn't required if you don't.

I just think you're damaging your kids by not giving them milk, which is the most nutritious thing you can feed a kid. Also, your kids may be lactose intolerant due to other stuff in their diet, like gluten or other toxins in plant-based foods that lead to a leaky gut.

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Re: America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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Post by justinator »

jononomo wrote: post #19
toomuchtodo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use pea milk with our kids because they're lactose intolerant. Pediatrician recommended as long as they're getting more protein and fat elsewhere in their diet (which they do). It doesn't hurt that peas don't care how they're raised and treated to produce milk. Dairy milk is not nutritionally necessary in any age cohort. If you enjoy it, that's fine of course, but it isn't required if you don't.

I just think you're damaging your kids by not giving them milk, which is the most nutritious thing you can feed a kid. Also, your kids may be lactose intolerant due to other stuff in their diet, like gluten or other toxins in plant-based foods that lead to a leaky gut.

If milk is so good, keep them on Mother's milk.

Re: America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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Post by soperj »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #18
jononomo wrote: post #17

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Where did you get that idea? Milk is one of the 2-3 most nutritious foods on Earth. In fact, milk has been designed by evolution over millions of years to be precisely what a mammal needs to thrive.

Some humans have the necessary genes to digest milk, some do not. Can't lump all mammals together. > Milk contains a type of sugar called lactose, which is distinct from the sugars found in fruit and other sweet foods. When we are babies, our bodies make a special enzyme called lactase that allows us to digest the lactose in our mother’s milk. But after we are weaned in early childhood, for many people this stops. Wi…

Then how do cats digest it?

Re: America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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soperj wrote: post #23
toomuchtodo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some humans have the necessary genes to digest milk, some do not. Can't lump all mammals together. > Milk contains a type of sugar called lactose, which is distinct from the sugars found in fruit and other sweet foods. When we are babies, our bodies make a special enzyme called lactase that allows us to digest the lactose in our mother’s milk. But after we are weaned in early childhood, for many people this stops. Wi…

Then how do cats digest it?

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Re: America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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Post by InvaderFizz »

soperj wrote: post #23
toomuchtodo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some humans have the necessary genes to digest milk, some do not. Can't lump all mammals together. > Milk contains a type of sugar called lactose, which is distinct from the sugars found in fruit and other sweet foods. When we are babies, our bodies make a special enzyme called lactase that allows us to digest the lactose in our mother’s milk. But after we are weaned in early childhood, for many people this stops. Wi…

Then how do cats digest it?

Poorly.

Adult cats are generally lactose intolerant[0].

0: https://www.prestigeanimalhospital.com/services/cats/blog/wh...

Re: America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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Post by Fricken »

m463 wrote: post #14
lalos wrote: post #2

The invisible hand at play, specially if it is true that plant based milk are taking away market share from the milk industry. Hope the government doesn't bail out or protect the industry against what the free market demands.

There's lots of evidence milk isn't as good for you as the dairy industry advertises.

There's evidence my ancestors have been drinking milk for at least 10,000 years. It's field tested.

Re: America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt

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Post by _bxg1 »

sp332 wrote: post #3

A counterpoint: these companies were recently bought by private equity firm KKR Co, the same company that loaded up Toys 'R Us with debt and then liquidated it. https://mobile.twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/121424602712711... This bankruptcy filling might just be negotiation in the courts to reduce pension obligations.

I don't understand how bigger waves haven't yet been made about these locusts. Where's the New York Times expose? Proposals by Congress on how to make this vampirism illegal? Literally anything?
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