On another recent post a forum member posted the following after visiting the US. "Just returned from a short visit in the states and was shocked to see all milk is killed, UHT and they put it in the same cartons they used to sell pasteurized milk in AND put it in the refrigerator section. People do not notice they have been hoodwinked into buying killed milk that lasts a long time on the pantry shelf. AND they don't care. Nutrition is not important. Of course they sell UHT worthless milk and cream here but you still have access to pasteurized milk and cream. Of course, raw is best if you can find it."
I re-post this because small dairy farms are folding at an alarming rate in Uruguay right now, and I wanted to relate something else regarding the state of the US dairy industry. The head of Organic Pastures Organic Raw Milk has a small plane and flies around the Western US advocating raw milk. A few years ago at the National Dairy Conference in Florida, he heard the rep from Dannon stand up and say that they were necountering strains of contamination that were surviving normal pasteurization temps as well as the elevated pasteurization temps, and asked if perhaps a government monitoring program of high temp pathogens might not be a good idea. "We don't want to go there.", was the government response. What is salient to me is that here we have a mega corp trying to do the right thing and government stonewalls. Good on Dannon Yogurt for trying.
Uruguay fed the Allied troops during WWII allowing victory. I hope that Uruguay does not lose its ag base as it forays out into a fibre optic world. The stage is set for a good balance here, depending on public policy decisions.
I re-post this because small dairy farms are folding at an alarming rate in Uruguay right now, and I wanted to relate something else regarding the state of the US dairy industry. The head of Organic Pastures Organic Raw Milk has a small plane and flies around the Western US advocating raw milk. A few years ago at the National Dairy Conference in Florida, he heard the rep from Dannon stand up and say that they were necountering strains of contamination that were surviving normal pasteurization temps as well as the elevated pasteurization temps, and asked if perhaps a government monitoring program of high temp pathogens might not be a good idea. "We don't want to go there.", was the government response. What is salient to me is that here we have a mega corp trying to do the right thing and government stonewalls. Good on Dannon Yogurt for trying.
Uruguay fed the Allied troops during WWII allowing victory. I hope that Uruguay does not lose its ag base as it forays out into a fibre optic world. The stage is set for a good balance here, depending on public policy decisions.
