This is a terrible title
Is dairy going the way of soy and corn
I try to avoid dairy and I still consume crap tons of it all the time
Mmm butter
Is this capitalism in action
I go through a gallon of milk every four days, so about ninty gallons per year. At 8.8 pounds per gallon, apparently I'm some freakish outlier.Demand for milk has gone from 35 pounds per person in 1975 to 15 pounds today
Ah man, we really do have way too much in common, Devac. In fact, I went to the grocery store today, and got some cheese from WanderingEng's state, which is 6 or 7 border-crossings away, they're famous for cheese. I got some sharp cheddar. One time, there was a batch that was so sharp, I could feel it in my eyes. Ohhh, that was something. I don't have much of an appetite when I don't exercise, but when I'm super active, milk consumption gets about like what you two are talking about. I'm only 5'8" tho.
I have lost ~20 lbs. of muscle in the last two years b/c grad school :'(. Soon, the cheeses I dissolve in my pool of acid will go back to my muscular system. My stint in school is coming to a close. One more year, and it'll be the least demanding year yet. I wish the dairy industry was more humane. It's just so (time) efficient to eat foods of high caloric density, such as animal products. I'm all for crickets though, as long as they taste even half decent!Yet I'm willing to bet you have more muscle mass
Maybe! My best guess is on the individual level the milk and cheese consumption varies significantly. It may be that single data points don't follow any trend and only broad averages are useful to the industry. Do you live in an area with a strong dairy industry? I do, and I grew up drinking milk. In my 20s I found myself drinking very little, but in recent years I've really ramped it back up. I think I'm doing it because of one thing the article noted: an interest in consuming more "natural" foods.
Are you in the "milk after a run" club too?
I am. I never thought about it specifically, but yes. Most longer runs in Wisconsin give out chocolate milk along with the traditional banana at the end, and I drink both milk and water after my own training runs (though during the week I run between work and dinner, so it's also just milk with dinner). I feel like the milk helps, but it's so hard to pin down any one thing as helping or hurting. I've read about athletes being paranoid about food (Usain Bolt eating McNuggets at the Olympics comes to mind), and I can see why.
It could be argued that since the central drive of the article is government scientists funded by compulsory industry fees working to increase the use of subsidized product in consume goods, it's fascism in action. Highly recommendedWho doesn’t love something they get for free or at a third of the original cost? But what could one do with football fields full of potato flakes, a cave stuffed with dried eggs (the army’s strange storage location for one hundred million pounds of the stuff), or a mountain of dehydrated cheese?