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"Consumption of milk per capita has gone down every year over the last 30 years," says Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. "Actually, it's gone down by more than 20 per cent since 2015."

While bagged milk is often cited as a unique Canadianism, it's actually not sold west of Ontario. Those who prefer it, however, say it's more cost efficient and some even believe it tastes better.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (10 children)

With all the news about microplastics maybe we should go back to glass bottles.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Glass's issue is transportation cost, so you'll want to make milk supply more local...wait a minute, this is starting to sound like commie shit

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have glass bottle milk in vancouver area. $1-$2 deposit on the bottle, good incentive to return it when you get your new bottle.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I don't know if I can sarcastically say 'sounds like commie shit' any harder before it would sound like I'm actually against it

That does sound fantastic. How's the shelf(/fridge) life of the milk?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a local dairy in my hometown and they had a little shack set up on the road where you could buy bottles of milk. It was the best milk I've ever drunk in my life.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Fuck it let's make our own milk at this point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I've got nipples, focker

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would absolutely love the glass bottles.

I worry about breakage and substandard cleaning in the coming era of downsized food safety checkers in the Bitcoin Milhouse cabinet, but a few plebes dying from salmonella will fix that spending ... almost.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With all the price gouging happening and shrinkflation, changing consumer habits could spell the end of food.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You could always just eat the rich!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it "changing consumer preferences", or is it the industry seeing an opportunity for shrinkflation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Clearly it's the shrinkflation

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I prefer kegged milk myself

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ooohh... With a nitro dispense system, yes please.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Canadians are giving up on milk and just drinking maple syrup now? Sweet!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I once made the mistake of telling my american coworkers that I buy over a gallon of fresh maple syrup from a local sugar shack each year and I was excited for spring because I was running low… I think I warped their perception of the canadian diet.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Are these changing consumer habits mostly being driven by how insanely expensive and low quality milk products are becoming? Canadian cheese and butter are trash and cost an arm and a leg - especially when you get into goat and sheep cheeses that a lot of lactose intolerant west coasters prefer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having had the cheese available in America, I have to say better grasses makes better cheese.

I refute your assessment of Canadian cheese, my good man, and I shall be available by the flagpole after recess. It's a duel.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh we're definitely better than America but we should be able to match up against Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Why are you getting down voted so much? You are absolutely right. Canadian milk products (including milk) are complete garbage. We can thank our milk cartels for that, plus the really stupid regulations put into place over concerns of germs that basically limits the amount of raw or non-homogenized milk on the market.

How come most of Europe can produce far superior tasting cheeses and also consume fresh milk from milk vending machines, but there's an inane control on it in North America?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

We're talking about milk here, not milk products.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How will our kids get their daily dose of microplastics????!!!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry, they don't have to try, it's likely in well water at this point. Guaranteed most of your store bought food probably has it too.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You guys drink milk out of bags? We use glass, plastic, or cardboard jugs down in the States.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Some places do things a bit differently. More news at 11

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's funny we have no issues drinking milk from many animals, but people would be grossed out knowing it's milk from a human breast, and wouldn't drink it.

Edit: changed any to many

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's funny we have no issues drinking milk from any animal

Bruh we definitely have issues drinking milk from other animals.

Have you ever seen anyone drink Dog Milk? Cat Milk? Possum Milk? Pangolin Milk? Motherfuckin... Platypus Milk? They all mammals.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I'm wondering is, we have made strides to synthetically make milk with the use of yeast to make the proteins. So theoretically, we could make any milk. Why are we making cows milk this way?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I love bagged milk, but I can't go through THREE FUCKING BAGS as a family of two.

They're more eco-friendly than the box or the jug, but I guess that goes against the goal of consuming more raw materials.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More eco-friendly? Where I am we can’t recycle any of the bags whereas the box and jug we can.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's worth remembering that being accepted in a blue bag and actually being recycled are two very different things. Much of the plastic we've "recycled" over the years just ended up in landfills in China.

Remember the old "Where does it go?" "Away," PSAs from the late '80s and early '90s? Well, plastic recycling has been that, but at an industrial scale.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

To repeat: plastic bagged milk is more eco-friendly than cardboard?

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