I assume farmers sell their milk to some outfit that pastuerizes it etc.
Right now they should be able to sell it to customers raw. I also surmise that most dairy farms don’t bottle it themselves.
Someone in Trump’s admin should look into this! Dumping milk is too horrible!
Intelligence community Inspector General has been fired.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/trump-fires-intelligence-community-inspector-general-164287
Indeed - Milk is such a great source of vitamin D, Calcium and a good source of protein. Not to mention that it's reasonably inexpensive at the store and tastes pretty good (especially with some chocolate powder).
And seriously - why is it going to waste? Why must it be dumped? Supply line issues? Can't the supply line be changed in response?
Back in the late 80’s.
My dad. A dairyman had to this several times. No place to store/refrigerate fresh milk. Sucks horribly. And at the time I really didn’t understand why. But we were not the only folks who had to do this
“Right now they should be able to sell it to customers raw. I also surmise that most dairy farms don’t bottle it themselves.”
You’d be correct they don’t bottle it themselves. But the problem with selling that milk raw is the milking procedure at big dairy farms is dirty milk. The udders aren’t properly sanitized. It’s a dirty business.
I only drink raw milk and after this am looking at getting dairy goats and milking them myself. While I’m in isolation at home, I’m reading all about goats hahahaha. But the whole process to make sure udders are sterile and clean is quite detailed. I’m finding it very fascinating. I buy my milk from Organic Pastures in California. Sometimes I get goat milk from Claravale Farms.
What they could have done is frozen the pasteurized milk then sold it for less money perhaps??? My son’s family is large, 4 kids and they go through about a gallon of milk a day, maybe 4 or 5 a week.. they buy several gallons at a time and freeze it. I haven’t asked her, but if there might be a limit, so I do know she’s going to the grocery store daily now.
I agree the tossing of milk is horrible, the problem may lie with the American Dairy Assoc or the FDA though.
Petey