I MEAN, JUST AN OLD-FASHIONED GLASS OF MILK, PLEASE?
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Maybe it’s just our multiple- choice culture. Accustomed as we are to 87 varieties of what used to be a cup of coffee . . .
But milk? I have been addicted to milk ever since my Uncle Porter taught me how to get it from a cow when I was in second grade. This was in the old-fashioned hands-on days. On Uncle Porter’s farm. I was pretty good.
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My current senior living place features soy milk, almond milk, lactose-free milk and assorted percentages-of-fat milk.
And now I read about A2 milk, which lacks some pesky A1 beta-casein neither cows nor milk drinkers ever heard of.
“The rise of A2 milk comes,” I learn, “as the broader dairy industry is in crisis, facing declining sales amid the explosion of plant-based milks. A2’s proponents hope it will stage a comeback for dairy.”
Uncle Porter would be proud.
Good one, Fran. Impressive how you stay current. I hadn’t heard of A2 milk, even though I’ve been studying up and trying to get with Esselstyn’s “plant strong” nutrition and heed Ornish’s cautions about casein. I did a little milking on a farm near Rochester med school. I’d say it’s “all in the wrist.” (Well, starts out in the cow.) Best, Bob
Well, in the wrist and the good grip. My second-grade fingers could do what my elderly arthritic fingers sure couldn’t do today, but who even remembers milking cows before machine-milking came to pass? Good for you going the Good Diet route; A2 milk might be on that path 😊
Fran… you forgot unpasteurized milk, the kind that carries indicators of avian flu these days. For those of us who grew up Way-Back-When, milk straight from the cow was the order of the day unless you lived in the city when it came straight from the bottle, some cream included. Had I had pasteurized milk I wouldn’t have gotten Undulant Fever but that is a story for some other time.
Yep, I do go for pasteurized milk. RFK Jr may disapprove of pasteurization . . . 🥶
When I order whole milk in my latte the barista ALWAYS here’s it as “oat milk.“ What have we wrought?
Yeah, I often just say Real Milk please, and stipulate “cream, whatever bad stuff you have . . .”