Milk prices expected to rise 9 percent

Associated Press ^ | March 30, 2007 | GENARO C. ARMAS

[Don Corleone]

Math Question...If regular milk prices rise 9 percent how much will 2 percent milk prices rise to keep pace with the cost of ethanol in Brazil?

A: 9 percent

B: The sq. root of 9 percent.

C: Some factor of Pi.

D: How shud i no.i go to pblic skool?

E: I don't care the government gives me the milk free anyway.

[Gabz]

We home school, so it could count as a school project.

So now you've got a threefer!!!!!

But now you've given me an idea for my 3rd grader. She wants to enter the science fair, and the theme this year is something to do with helping the environment!!! Her best friend's great grandparents raise goats, and I bet they would "loan" me one.

[Millicent_Hornswaggle]

Borrowing a goat, huh? Now, that's a conversation starter!

[Gabz]

LOL!!!

Actually, I'm quite friendly with them, and they probably would go along with the idea, crazy as it may be :)

[Myrddin]

Good thing I'm lactose intolerant.

I'm lactose intolerant and allergic to wheat. I recently learned that the two may be related. The tips of the villi in the colon is where lactase is produced. If you are gluten sensitive, the villi shrivel and can't make lactase. I've been very careful to avoid wheat and the lactose intolerance has eased. I may need to be more aggressive about elimination of gluten to completely solve the problem.

[Gator113]

Goat milk tastes like the stink of a goat herd. It might be better for you, but I would drink pond water before I would get anywhere near goats milk.

[umgud]

I wasn't aware of that possible link. THX, I'll test that route.

[TheMom]

When he comes to visit he will go through several glasses just to get his fix.

[WestSylvanian]

This is disgusting. We have to pay more for a basic, essential food like milk because corn is being grown to make ethanol to fuel the gas guzzlers that idiots in this country refuse to give up. Go out and buy a fuel efficient car and get rid of the Hummers, Envoys, Expeditions, etc. Drive less so the people at the lower end of the economic scale can afford gas and milk and our country isn't hostage to the likes of Saudi Arabia and Iran. Don't wear out our precious farmland by raising corn to fuel dinosaur automobiles.