Organic Milk Is Healthier, New Study Says

The Independent:

Britain's beleaguered organic sector receives a boost today with a study that suggests organic milk is healthier than the ordinary variety.

The European Union-funded study analysed 22 brands sold in supermarkets and found that organic milk had lower levels of harmful saturated fats and more beneficial fatty acids than conventional milk.

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[Vr6]

02:19 PM on 01/24/2011

The greater the quantity, the less the quality! By selling you crap, they also get to sell you pharmaceuticals, to combat all the pesticides, hormones etc...that enlarge you prostate, distend you bowels and promote breast cancer and heck knows what else - it's a friggin' vicious circle of exploitative practices - then there's over production and obesity and starvation - WTF! Where has all the good sense gotten to ?

[Pema]

07:01 PM on 01/18/2011

organic anything is better. who needs a study ?

[eva07]

06:13 AM on 01/19/2011

exactly.. that's what I wanted to comment..

[BLACKCAT66]

12:03 AM on 01/23/2011

ditto

[luvU2]

05:56 PM on 01/18/2011

We haven’t had milk in about six years, but if I were going to have it, I would make sure it is organic. Organic dairy, fruit and veggies are soooo good.

[Pema]

09:22 AM on 01/19/2011

yogurt..food of the gods imo...

[luvU2]

10:02 AM on 01/19/2011

I eat yogurt every day, I always give my cats a little bit, they love it. (-;

[friedasboss]

05:54 PM on 01/18/2011

Once a human is weaned, they are not meant to consume milk. Period. Vitamin D is best obtained from the sun and food. Sc$#w the dairy industry / lobby in this country - find another job.

[jsarets]

03:21 AM on 01/19/2011

Humans have been consuming dairy products (most likely fermented) since at least 6500BC. Herding predated agriculture as a widespread practice of human civilizations by thousands of years.

Meat came first, but eventually we figured out that we could make more efficient use of the animals by tapping their nutritious blood or by harvesting their milk and storing it in animal stomachs where it would become thicker and much easier to digest.

We were motivated by the practical concern of extracting the maximum amount of nourishment from otherwise inedible grasslands. By consuming animal products that could be harvested throughout the lives of the animals, we realized substantial efficiencies not possible with just meat.

[Pema]

11:30 AM on 01/19/2011

if you take a bath within 8 hours of sun the vit d wears off.

[Chas53]

05:46 PM on 01/18/2011

Milk is liquid meat, and should be avoided
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O-ehIkwGME

[Fred Butters]

07:21 PM on 01/18/2011

Gross, does that mean breast milk is liquid human?!

[Pema]

11:47 AM on 01/19/2011

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[OregonCHG]

03:36 PM on 01/18/2011

Proof!!!!!!! Milk is not something that a human should be drinking after the age of 4-5, especially the milk of a cow. You can thank the dairy lobby for this lovely myth of modern society. There are other ways to fortify your diet with Ca, vitamin D, and vitamin E that are much healthier for you than pasturized fat filled milk.

[Ryan Schmidt]

01:41 PM on 01/18/2011

We are the only species that drinks Milk from another animal (not counting US feeding dogs and cats Milk).. Most people in the world are lactose intolerant...

Milk also comes from one of the fattest animals..

[maribelles]

05:58 PM on 01/18/2011

We are the only species doing a lot of things.

They are only fat because agribusiness over-feeds them. And if milk were taken raw, and cultured, as it should be and is in natural societies, the lactose breaks down before consumption. What we are intolerant of is pasteurization, homogenization, and commercial processing of highly processed unnatural animals.

[eva07]

06:15 AM on 01/19/2011

the fattest animal would be the pig..

[Ryan Schmidt]

04:24 PM on 01/21/2011

I said, "one of the fattest" meaning multiple..

And pigs are by far much more wasteful animals when use for food..

[DrObvious]

12:44 PM on 01/18/2011

Milk is still a suspended fat solution at it's core.  Good food for newborns of the species, but not necessarily a healthy food as we grow into adulthood, need a lower percentage of fat in our diet.
 
"Healthy" milk?   Overstated.   But go, organic!

[BLACKCAT66]

12:15 AM on 01/23/2011

If you can find non homogenized milk its a little better and more digestible fat wise. Or better yet skim. I was talking to a local dairy man in my area (who makes wonderful raw milk organic cheese) and he told me homogenization came about due to the war of 1812 in this country. The short story is due to a loss of British whiskey imports during that war it cranked up our own domestic whiskey production and more dairy cows were being fed the slops left over from whiskey production (yuck!) so this let to lesser and unreliable quality in milk. The slop feeding dairies couldn't compete with the non-slop dairies since they had higher milk fat content so they complained to the government and homogenization was developed where the milk was flushed over thin blades to break up and distribute the fat globules "beefing" up their "slop" milk. However this effects the way human body absorbs the fat. He suggested staying away from homogenization and go organic whenever possible.

[JayZee]

12:42 PM on 01/18/2011

I don't drink cows milk anymore but I use organic cultured butter.I've never tasted butter that good before!
Try a tall glass of fresh home made almond milk.Blissfully delicious.

[Pema]

07:03 PM on 01/18/2011

jayzee...i love almond milk on my cereal and even oatmeal. yum

[JayZee]

09:06 PM on 01/18/2011

I cook with bake with it, such a delicious milk substitute ...I try to tell people the grass is greener on the other side when you give up inflammatory food stuff.

Next I want to make home made coconut milk.

[grovestand12]

12:16 PM on 01/18/2011

and it taste better too...

[J0E1]

11:18 AM on 01/18/2011

I don't know where you guys get your milk from but the local king soopers (kroger) a very large chain grocer sells their cheap "ordinary milk" that clearly states "made from cows not fed rBGH".  Just check the label on your local milk before automatically buying "Organic" to avoid growth hormone.  I am shocked how many people on here think all milk in the US that isn't organic automatically has rBGH.

[Daisytoo]

12:02 PM on 01/18/2011

That's helpful information. I'll look into this to see if that's true in NYS.

[JWW33]

01:26 PM on 01/18/2011

Good info, I too buy only rBST free milk, but it's not always organic. I only buy local rBST free milk, it's less expensive and still has a relatively long shelf life. Here in WA state it's Darigold milk.

[cornel]

11:05 AM on 01/18/2011

It's not only healthier, it taste better too. You know like pizzas with real cheese taste better then soypizz

[Thinklongterm]

10:48 AM on 01/18/2011

I don't drink the stuff but if you do.......

[Sean Dominish]

09:51 AM on 01/18/2011

i like stoneyfield's fat free. organic vally is good too.

[rocknrollinhoneybadger]

08:19 AM on 01/18/2011

Well it certainly is healthier for the bottom line of the businesses.