Organic Milk?

[Anonymous]

What are your thoughts on Organic Milk? Worth the benefits? Not worth the money? I have a poll going on over on skinnyscoop (link below) if you would care to weigh in here or there? I'm trying to get a good sampling of people from all over the US.

http://www.theskinnyscoop.com/question/q/1453

(you don't have to join the site...I'm not soliciting! If it asks for your login, you can close out of the Login box if you don't want to join and and answer the question as a guest.)

[Anonymous]

I think organic milk is worth the cost. If you read about how the cattle are treated on regular farms its shocking. Organic has much higher standards and more ethical practices.

Re:milk in general..you may want to check out the new book Whitewashed.

[Anonymous]

I refuse to pay $6 for a gallon of milk. I'll buy regular old milk that's hormone free and that's good enough for me. (Though I do have a soft spot for milk that comes in a bottle, but not all the time....just too expensive.)

[Anonymous]

Milk is the most important food, along with meat, that needs to be organic.

Otherwise you are ingesting pesticides, fertilizers and hormones - hormones being probably the least harmful of the three.

There is also a list of 10 or so common veggies and fruits that are most susceptible to be sprayed with tons of pesticides - apples, peaches and strawberries are included.

[Anonymous]

We buy the old fashioned bottle kind of milk because I'm freaked out about chemicals and how they relate to kids' development. However, it is getting REALLY expensive.

[Anonymous]

I love that people will spend 40 or 50 K on a car, but won't have the money to buy organic milk. Of course i understand that many people genuinely can't afford it.

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing that it's not the people who drive 50K cars that complain about organic milk being expensive.

[Anonymous]

I buy organic milk because I don't wanty sons to grow moobs.

[Anonymous]

No. Waste of money. For anyone who, despite the scientific findings from multiple countries re: the lack of any indication of harm from the "hormones", is skittish about that...virtually all grocery store milk is " hormone free" now.

Only good reason to buy organic is if you believe the animals on normal farms are mistreated (i do not). In that case make sure you avoid the most common organic since that is Horizon and animals there are on very large farms, not the tiny ones I think most envision when buying organic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing that it's not the people who drive 50K cars that complain about organic milk being expensive.

I bet most people that have 40 or 50,000 dollar cars don't drink organic milk.

[Anonymous]

I have a $26,000 car and we drink organic milk!

[Anonymous]

I buy organic milk for 1 yr son, husband and I drink conventional milk.

[Anonymous]

Seen young kids (less than 3)with abnormally "large" breast growth, return to a normal range with switch to organic milk. Not sure I would have believed it if I hadn't seen it. First 5 years we did organic milk, but regular groceries for everything else. Recently returned to organic bottled milk bc my picky eater will drink it (tastes better!) & she doesn't eat much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a $26,000 car and we drink organic milk!

29k car - organic milk.

(but its the prius with all the options - do I still count?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy organic milk because I don't wanty sons to grow moobs.

Definitely true. Also contributes to early onset puberty for girls. Which correlates to higher ovarian cancer risk, more period cycles=increased ovarian cancer risk...