Hi,

Today you have the choice of a wide variety of products. Shops are full of various choices, which a complete different livestyle compared to 50y-100years ago.

Would you rather buy a bottle of milk with or without added vitams in it?

Vitams:
http://www.milk.co.uk/page.aspx?intPageID=71

I'd rather buy milk without added vitamins. I rather it with as little added as possible, and with the smallest amount of processing. The best milk I've ever had in my life was the unpasteurised unhomogenised milk my family used to get from the farmer up the road.

BTW selling unpasteurised milk is illegal in most places, and can be dangerous.

Milk is for babies. Cows' milk is for baby cows. I'm neither, so I don't drink the stuff.

I drink milk occasionally preferably the 1% kind with nesquik chocolate

+1
Arnold Schwarzenegger said so too
I'm scared to think what "Natural Milk" may taste like.
Where do you live that Milk comes in bottles?

Haven't seen milk in bottles (except for baby bottles) for about 40 years.

I grew up on it. Boiled on the stove of course, first.
It definitely has a different flavor that only a peasant person like me could appreciate.

Mexicans still do things the old way. Goats milk and Goats cheese is a main stay down here.

A bit off topic but with the trend going to more natural and organic products, and eating more processed foods that iodine deficiency is becoming a concern of the World Health Organisation.

Anyway since vitamin D is essential for the body to absorb calcium it makes sense to add it to milk. If all children ate their fruit and vegetables then adding vitamins would not be necessary. What do I know...

I don't drink beverage milk. If I did, I would drink milk with vitamin D added, since we need to be in the sunlight to manufacture our own.

The reading I've done tells me that most supplements are junk and most vitamin pills are unnecessary.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/m...ents/index.htm

When I was growing up, we had two deliveries per week of pasteurized non-homogenized whole Guernsey cows milk that came in glass gallon-sized jugs, and a quart of buttermilk, also in glass. We'd put the empty bottles out on the doorstep the night before a scheduled delivery, and the milkman would take them and replace them with full bottles. Eventually the glass bottles were retired and the milk started arriving in plastic jugs and wax cartons. Progress, I suppose.

Glass does seem to be making a small comeback though. Most of the spendy upscale grocery stores in my area carry a number of milk products packaged in glass bottles. They usually come from smaller local dairies that cater to buyers of natural, organic, artisanal, or minimally processed products, or to people who don't want their food to be packaged in plastic.

I love milk, drank gallons of it as a kid, no wonder I always had phlegm. I prefer milk that has not been played with to much. Back in the late 1980s I had a colleague who had cows and he used to bring in it and sell it at work I'd get a 2 litre bottle (plastic refillable) a day. I buy long life milk now, I don't need to keep it in the fridge until its open.

We have adverts in Australia about adding things to milk and how milk without the added material is better for us. Problem is the one of the things they are adding is what was taken out in the first place. I wish they'd do the minimum of processing and bottle/carton it and be done with it.

Glass seems "cleaner".
I do miss Whole Foods and Trader Joe's since I abandoned California (The only references I have to anything approximating "natural").
What really scares me more is learning what may be in what little milk I do drink these days.

Turkeys destined for sale in America for Thanksgiving are bred to be sterile?
Sickening.
My wake-up call for the food insanity recently was the "green" ketchup. If they added color to make ketchup green (kids LOVED it), then what are they doing to regular ketchup/catsup?.

I fear we are all guinea pigs.

This reminds me of also that so-called 'water enhancer' 'mio'. I can't believe that people are such sheep to buy into this shit in the first place. Milk is milk, its better natural. Same with water, just leave it the hell alone, it ain't broke don't fix it, (although I do enjoy carbonated/seltzer water ). Then again people who do buy into this, I am sure are also easily swayed by the media, mass marketing, mass hysteria and panic. Don't forget to stock up on duct tape and tape all your windows... Remember that? after the 9/11 attacks?

Now if only I could get meat products that aren't totally fscked with hormones and antibiotics...

If you know for a fact your living on a bad diet supplements could be the deference between getting sick and not getting sick
I spent a summer living on the road (hitch hiking ) BOY am I glad I had my mutli vitamins so all I had to think about as far as my diet was concerned was protein and calories

the long and short of mio is mio=caffeine

where I live you duct tape up the windows to stay warm in the winter
it was so cold this morning around here my transmission fluid got as thick as honey
I had to heat the trany pan just to get it in gear