<p>I find as I get older I can’t drink milk like I used to, and have tried both almond and soy milk. However, I now refuse to buy almond milk because I feel I’m being scammed by it. The Center for Science in the Public Interest puts out a nutrition newsletter which I have long subscribed to, and last October they reported that almond milk has only about 3 ½ almonds per cup. The rest is mostly water and sugar. I found a new brand of lactose free milk which doesn’t have the usual weird sweet taste and I now buy that instead.</p>
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<p>That would explain the lack of protein, which I thought was odd.</p>
<p>For everybody who is saying that organic cows are treated humanely… give me a break. They are grown so that we can eat them. What about that is humane?</p>
<p>That being said, cows are too delicious to be left alive. I don’t see much difference between letting cows live happily for a couple of years before cutting them to pieces and shooting them with bean-bag guns for 8 hours a day (if that made the meat any better).</p>
<p>Cow milk is delicious. Who cares if it’s good for you? I never thought of milk as being being a particularly “healthful” food, although academically I understand it’s better than e.g. a coke.</p>
<p>Cheese, yogurt, etc… these things are patently enjoyable to eat. Screw cows, I want dairy!</p>
<p>Chocolate milk is a wonderful recovery drink after a long run - much better than other ones sold in the store.</p>
<p>I like milk that is unhomogenized.
My SIL who is from Colombia cannot drink milk in this country, but she could drink it at home, until I found her some dairies that sell raw milk.
[A</a> CAMPAIGN FOR REAL (RAW) MILK!](<a href=“http://www.realmilk.com/]A”>http://www.realmilk.com/)</p>
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Yeah, because Columbia gets so much else right.</p>
<p>There are very strict rules for labeling pet food (e.g., “chicken for cats”, “beef dinner”, etc.) based on the % of the ingredient listed in the name:
[Pet</a> Food Labels - General](<a href=“http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/ucm047113.htm]Pet”>http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/ucm047113.htm)
Is there a similar rule for labeling and naming foods sold for human consumption? Does not seems so, because the store shelves are littered with such products as jugs of “peach juice” that is mostly water, HFCS and grape juice with “natural peach flavor added”. Almond Milk is a good example of such deceptive naming.</p>
<p>I sooo agree with you BunsenBurner. I think food companies spend all day and night figuring out how to fool the consumer. I have bought grape juice that was a total lie. I won’t name the company, but it said in giant letters “Grape” with a picture of a bunch of grapes and “100% Juice”. I realized after I got home that it was 100% juice alright—apple juice. It was flavored grape. I was so mad I’ll never buy from that company again. Also, the words “made with XYZ” are a guaranteed scam. Fruit snacks “made with real fruit” have a speck of fruit in them; frozen dinners “made with real white meat chicken” probably have one bite of white meat, etc. etc. As hard as I try to be an aware consumer I still get fooled. It obviously works, or the companies wouldn’t do it.</p>
<p>I* always* read the ingredients even when they are in white lettering on dark!
I find it handy to have my phone with me as well at the grocery, to look products up that I am not familiar with.
( such as when there is an interesting fruit in the produce section)
It doesn’t bother me that peach juice contains mostly grape, first because we don’t really buy juice except for orange juice & two, because if it actually was 100% peach juice I don’t think it would be drinkable.
( but my D has been after me to get a juicer)
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