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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
WanderingEng · 709 days ago · link ·
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
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am_Unition · 709 days ago · link ·
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.
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I prefer milder cheeses: Gouda, Mozzarella or Edam (or one of the locally produced 'Ser Morski' - The Maritime Cheese) are much more to my liking. The "I can feel them with my eyes and skin" cheeses are passable from time to time but I wouldn't eat them daily. Yet I'm willing to bet you have more muscle mass, which is a more important factor than height when it comes to normal caloric requirements. My training is 90% cardio so there ya go.I'm only 5'8" tho.
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am_Unition · 708 days ago · link ·
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
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So far I only got to eat ants at some fair with weird foodstuffs. Tasted great, legs scrape the throat a bit too hard no matter how long you chew that stuff. Not that I would oppose switching to insects if it was actually available. That's what happens when you only get to lift the indices. I'm sorry to hear that, though. I seem to recall you talking about some brütal training regimen you had back in Colorado so I assumed it to be valid now.I have lost ~20 lbs. of muscle in the last two years b/c grad school :'(
WanderingEng · 709 days ago · link ·
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.
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Not really. We share and are affected by some of the US problems but I don't live anywhere near anything related to dairy. Aside from liking milk ever since I can remember, it's a good balance of protein and fats (shame it's not a good hydrator, though) while actually tasting nice and giving me that sweet extra calcium. It's also relatively cheap, but that's an incidental factor. Also, with my fucked-up metabolism it's important to me that almost everything will have some extra calories. I finally stopped growing at 196cm (6'5") but my pituitary still pumps out crazy amounts of growth hormone (and other stuff too).Do you live in an area with a strong dairy industry?
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WanderingEng · 709 days ago · link ·
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?