How to tell if the grocery store milk is from a small farmer

[damania]

How can you tell if that half gallon or gallon of milk that you bought from the grocery store was sourced from a dairy farm operation where the cow had free access to pasture? How do you know if the milk came from a small farmer or a cooperative? Was the operation environmentally friendly and sustainable?

Find out how easy it is to see where that private label milk came from!:
http://www.askbutwhy.com/2010/08/pasture-fed-milk-now-you-know.html

Now you, the little guy, have a 100% guaranteed way, every time you go to the grocery store, to avoid a corporate, factory farmed dairy!

 

[pacelli]

Make that 99% guaranteed. The Fresh Market sells high-priced store brand milk produced in Asheville, NC. No rBGH. The website says it is made by Milkco Inc. The company isn't on the rated list.

 

[romacox]

I always buy organic milk...milk in which cows are not given antibiotics, added hormones (estrogen is often used http://hubpages.com/hub/Hot-Flashes-And-Sleepless-Nights ) ,pesticides or cloning. Making it a small farmer on top of that would be even better.

 

[Cowlesy]

Easiest way is to drive to the local dairy and buy it from their little shoppe.
http://potogolddairy.com/?page_id=4

or http://duransfarmfreshproducts.com/?page_id=232

Buy it in the glass bottles if you can.

I love the Store Hours of Duran's:

“What are the hours you are open for business?”

A: Monday through Saturday–9am to 7pm. We both have full time jobs outside the farm, so when we are away working, we operate on a ’self serve’ basis and have a security system in place, just to keep everyone honest and we can continue to offer you these products.

I'm pretty sure by self-serve there is a camera and you probably just slide your cash in a lockbox. You couldn't do that here in NY haha.

 

[romacox]

Even men are receiving high doses of the female hormone estrogen in our food chain.

" Each year, U.S. farmers raise some 36 million beef cattle. Farmers fatten up two-thirds of these animals by using hormones.

Most cattle that go through feedlots receive steroids to boost their growth rate and beefiness.

T. Thrift, Univ. of Fla.

Many cattle are fed the same muscle-building androgens—usually testosterone surrogates—that some athletes consume. Other animals receive estrogens, the primary female sex hormones, or progestins, semiandrogenic agents that shut down a female's estrus cycle. Progestins fuel meat-building by freeing up resources that would have gone into the reproductive cycle.

While federal law prohibits people from self-medicating with most steroids, administering these drugs to U.S. cattle is not only permissible but de rigueur."
http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/hormones_beef.html

 

[damania]

Make that 99% guaranteed. The Fresh Market sells high-priced store brand milk produced in Asheville, NC. No rBGH. The website says it is made by Milkco Inc. The company isn't on the rated list.

Tell that dairy to get their name onto those websites.

 

[damania]

Easiest way is to drive to the local dairy and buy it from their little shoppe.
http://potogolddairy.com/?page_id=4

or http://duransfarmfreshproducts.com/?page_id=232

Buy it in the glass bottles if you can.

I love the Store Hours of Duran's:



I'm pretty sure by self-serve there is a camera and you probably just slide your cash in a lockbox. You couldn't do that here in NY haha.

Lucky you to be able to have access to these dairies! And the prices are so cheap! The honor system is something that definitely won't work in the big cities!

 

[Seraphim]

I always buy organic milk...milk in which cows are not given antibiotics, added hormones (estrogen is often used http://hubpages.com/hub/Hot-Flashes-And-Sleepless-Nights ) ,pesticides or cloning. Making it a small farmer on top of that would be even better.

I just watched FOOD INC at the request of (I think Debbie) and it's nuts as to why they are given antibiotics. They are not biologically engineered to eat all the corn they do and it results in ecoli build up in their gut. PUMP EM FULL OF DRUGS!

 

[dannno]

Wow, that's really good to know.. unfortunately I don't really buy milk... except maybe once in a while for a recipe or something..

 

[Seraphim]

Wow, that's really good to know.. unfortunately I don't really buy milk... except maybe once in a while for a recipe or something..

Same. I use 10% cream to cook with sometimes and for my morning coffee- so sparringly. I use high quality cheese. Milk? Absolutely not.

 

[romacox]

Same. I use 10% cream to cook with sometimes and for my morning coffee- so sparringly. I use high quality cheese. Milk? Absolutely not.

The hormones are in all sorts of meat (beef, chickens, pork, turkey)(not in, buffalo or deer meat)( I think fish is unaffected, but not sure). Thus hormones make their way into eggs, cheese, butter, and milk.

 

[angelatc]

The hormones are in all sorts of meat (beef, chickens, pork, turkey)(not in, buffalo or deer meat)( I think fish is unaffected, but not sure). Thus hormones make their way into eggs, cheese, butter, and milk.

There are growth hormones for farm raised fish. If you want more info, let me know and I'll ask DH.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Joke:
Q) How can you tell if the grocery store milk is from a small farmer?

A) If it only stocked on the bottom shelves. He is too short to reach the upper shelves.

Hey- I didn't say it was a good joke!

 

[romacox]

There are growth hormones for farm raised fish. If you want more info, let me know and I'll ask DH.

Yes, I would like to know more about the fish. Thank you

 

[youngbuck]

Fortunately my milk comes from the same farm each week. Organic, grass-fed/pastured/free-range raw milk.

 

[johngr]

While federal law prohibits people from self-medicating with most steroids, administering these drugs to U.S. cattle is not only permissible but de rigueur."

Sounds like a great source for black market 'roids.

 

[M House]

Is this the reason human breast milk is being googled so much lol? Adds new meaning to the term "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"

 

[damania]

There are growth hormones for farm raised fish. If you want more info, let me know and I'll ask DH.

Beware of Atlantic salmon which is farmed fish! It's been tested (with the same results around the world) to contain mercury, pcbs, and loads of other toxins.

Buy wild Alaskan salmon!

 

[Liberty Star]

How can you tell if that half gallon or gallon of milk that you bought from the grocery store was sourced from a dairy farm operation where the cow had free access to pasture? How do you know if the milk came from a small farmer or a cooperative? Was the operation environmentally friendly and sustainable?

Find out how easy it is to see where that private label milk came from!:
http://www.askbutwhy.com/2010/08/pasture-fed-milk-now-you-know.html

Now you, the little guy, have a 100% guaranteed way, every time you go to the grocery store, to avoid a corporate, factory farmed dairy!

Awsome, thank you.

 

[Old Ducker]

When it comes to milk, organic does not equate to pastured. Cows can be fed grain and the milk called organic as long as they're fed organic grain.