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Tag Archives: Milk
Organic Valley Introduces “Grass Milk”
Organic Valley is coming out with “grass milk.” No, this isn’t milk made from grass, in the spirit of almondmilk, soymilk or ricemilk. It’s milk made by cows fed exclusively grass. Though I don’t drink milk, I welcome this news. … Continue reading
Posted in What To Eat
Tagged Alzheimer, Cattle, Milk, Omega-3 fatty acid, organic milk, Organic Valley
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Change the Climate Through Your Diet
The Environmental Working Group has produced a list of the best and worst food choices for climate change. As I’ve noted recently, animal products typically generate far more greenhouse gases than fruits, vegetables and whole grains, due largely to the … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy
Tagged Animal product, Carbon Footprint, Environmental Working Group, Fertilizer, Greenhouse gas, Meat, Milk
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Do We Want GM Cows Making Human Milk?
According to Chinese news sources, scientists have created a genetically modified cow whose milk has “the characteristics of human milk.” The idea is that human milk is nutritionally superior to cow’s milk and will constitute a better choice for consumers … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy
Tagged Breast milk, Breastfeeding, Health, Infant formula, Milk, Nutrition
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Should We Do Away with Pasteurized Milk?
I’ve had some great discussions with readers on Organaholic! about raw milk. Raw milk is unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk, the way we drank it for millennia until we discovered that by heating milk we could kill off dangerous pathogens that were … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy
Tagged Food, Food and Drug Administration, Health, Milk, organic food, Pasteurization, Raw milk
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Marion Nestle Knows Saturated Fat Causes Heart Disease. But I Don’t Know That.
I respect and appreciate the work of NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle, as does much of the organic food community. I cited her in my most recent post, on genetically modified organisms. And I often swoop in on her blog … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy
Tagged Food, Gary Taubes, Good Calories Bad Calories, Health, Heart disease, Marion Nestle, Masai, Milk, Nutrition, Saturated fat
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Where Do They Get the Minerals for My Mineral Supplements?
A reader recently asked me a question that I’d never thought to ask myself. Some background: This reader drinks soy milk as a substitute for dairy products. Her soy milk naturally contains only about one quarter as much calcium as … Continue reading
Posted in Food Policy
Tagged Calcium, Calcium Supplements, Dairy, Dietary mineral, Food, Health, Milk, Mineral, Mineral Supplements, Soy milk, Vegan, Vegetarian, Vitamin, Vitamin Supplements
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What’s in Your Soy Milk? Hint: The Answer Isn’t “Soy”.
I posted several weeks ago suggesting that the soy milk on the shelves of my local Whole Foods may be an ideal source of healthy and delicious calories for me. But though I am still drinking it in fairly large … Continue reading
Posted in Product Reviews
Tagged Food, Health, Milk, Nutrient, organic food, Soy milk, Soybean, Veganism, Vegetarian, Whole Foods
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Why I Don’t Drink Milk
I used to drink milk by the carton. I loved it as a kid, and I would put it away so quickly during college that my mother would stock up in advance any time I came home to visit. A … Continue reading
Posted in Product Reviews
Tagged Antibiotic, Cattle, Conventional milk, Corn Fed Cattle, Corn Fed Cows, Dairy, Dairy product, Drink, Factory Farm, Grass Fed Cattle, Grass Fed Cows, Milk, Stonyfield, Sugar
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