More dairy farmers going organic

6-19-2006 @6:17PM amanda said... We get organic milk at my office. To be honest, I think it tastes pretty much the same as non-organic milk - maybe a slightly more mild flavor. I don't think 1% organic milk is common so you would probably have to get either skim, 2% or both so that you could mix them to get 1%.
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6-19-2006 @6:36PM nika said... tastes the same.. its just nice to know that my family and I are not getting all those lactation inducing hormones as well as the growth hormones. As a reproductive cell biologist, I have a huge amount of respect for what these hormones do to the body.
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6-19-2006 @7:20PM allison said... Organic milk may not taste that much different -- but what's super important is what you are NOT getting, even though it doesn't taste too much: hormones, antibiotics -- and generally, cows that are not pushed into overproduction at the expense of their much-shortened lives.
If possible, try to find milk from grass-fed cattle -- natural vitamins still in rather than having to add A & D back in synthetically and therefore, less potent.
The very BEST choice is raw milk -- there you can not only rest assured the milk is organic, the cows are treated well and live a dozen productive years longer than "factory farm" cows -- and the taste is exquisite. Plus the health benefits are amazing, well beyond that of ordinary milk, organic or not.
Check to see if cow share programs are available in your state if raw milk is not already available. Organized dairy agribusiness is so opposed to raw milk, you can be assured they know a good thing when they see it and will fight it to the death to keep it out of our mouths. Check out www.westonaprice.org and click on raw milk link.
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6-19-2006 @7:27PM Chris Custine said... I started buying Organic Valley Milk for my family a few months ago and all 3 of my kids, my wife, and anyone else who cares to compare it with several of the other store bought milks will tell you that it has a much better flavor than regular milk. Several of the people we have gotten to try it say the same thing "this is what I remember milk tasting like when I was a kid!". I had the same experience (you know when you taste something familiar and it instantly sparks memories somewhere in your brain). I describe the organic milk as lacking a certain bitterness that is present in regular milk.
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6-19-2006 @11:23PM Michael Lee said... The best, and most under reported feature, of organic milk is its extended shelf life. (Expiration dates on some go as far as 1.5-2 months out!) Can't beat it for the single guy!
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6-19-2006 @11:49PM kristin said... We drink organic skim and notice a HUGE difference from the 'white/blue water' that is regular skim. I'm a big milk drinker (two of us go through a gallon and a half in a week), and I even hate the way I feel drinking non-organic. Skim is much richer than regular, in my opinion. We buy Amish Country Farms Organic (also free-range).
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6-20-2006 @12:26PM Allison said... I wondered about the difference myself and so bought some 1% organic milk and regular 1% milk. I did a taste test. HUGE DIFFERENCE. It's what converted me. I now drink half as much milk (since the organic is twice as expensive) so that I can have the WAY better quality. It must be a difference in how the cows are fed or something, because even though they were both 1%, the organic milk tasted much more creamy and milky. The regular milk was watery in comparison.
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6-20-2006 @7:40PM suburban misfit said... 1% isn't hard to find; I buy it for three out of the four of us (my daughter still needs more calories than the rest of us, so I buy 2% for her). I don't drink plain milk (can't stand the stuff) but my husband assures me that the organic tastes MUCH better, more like the milk we had every day when we lived in Germany. More milk-like, if you will.

My kids drink a lot more of it now, too. They like it much better than the other stuff.
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