Just picked up milk and noticed the label says "100% milk from real cows". This wasn't something I was worried about before now.
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Before the FDA, milk in the US contained all sorts of stuff, some of it rather repulsive.
Debora Blum's book "The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" goes quite in depth about those times.
@mattblaze dairy producers got litigious about non dairy products using the term milk, and lost
@mattblaze there was a somewhat short lived kids' cereal called cröönchy stars, with (licensed) Muppets Swedish Chef branding, and on the side above the ingredients list it said "contains no glass shards or pachyderms: the other cereals may not contain these either, but if they don't why don't they say so?" and that bit of insidious propaganda has stayed with me ever since.
@mattblaze I learned recently that the "real" purpose of "kosher milk" was to have someone (a rabbi) monitoring the cow->bottle->home process to insure that no one pees into the milk (to express hatred of Jews), which apparently was once common enough to be a problem.
@mattblaze as opposed to milk from AI generated cows
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Woohoo, no hamsters!
... yet 😂
I'm imagining a shady dairy with a bunch of goats in ill-fitting cow costumes.
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just don't take the square root of a negative cow.
@mattblaze let me reassure you, as someone who worked making chevre cheese on a goat farm, there is no way anyone could mistake oat milk for cow milk.
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@CuriousMagpie @ai6yr Not to mention that virtually every other dairy milk is more expensive than cow milk.
@mattblaze or a pile of melamine to mix in with diluted milk
I feel like your questions about the warning label are answered by the warning label. 😆
LOL!
I was thinking to the cow with rubber boots on the "Top Secret!" poster.
@mattblaze Or three stacked bags of oats, wearing a trenchcoast
