Posted on 03/30/2007 6:36:30 AM PDT by ryan71
Dairy economists predict the retail price of milk could rise as much as 30 cents per gallon — a 9 percent jump — by fall. The reasons include rising fuel and feed costs for farmers and increasing demand for milk products around the globe.
Costs have surged for fuel and petroleum-based products and for the corn used to feed dairy cows, a side effect of increases in the production of ethanol.
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.
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.
Borrowing a goat, huh? Now, that's a conversation starter!
LOL!!!
Actually, I'm quite friendly with them, and they probably would go along with the idea, crazy as it may be :)
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.
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.
I wasn't aware of that possible link. THX, I'll test that route.
When he comes to visit he will go through several glasses just to get his fix.
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.
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