#Organic milk shortage around the U s. Where s my organic milk?##There is a shortage of organic milk across the country,
and it has become so bad in areas like the Southeast that Publix stores from Florida to Tennessee have put up signs in dairy cases anticipating the shopper s frustration.
The answer is that there is not enough to go around, and starting next month consumers can expect to see a sharp jump in price as well.
while the price that farmers receive for their milk has not. That means that farmers feed their cows less
resulting in lower milk production. At the same time, fewer farmers have been converting from conventional dairying to organic.
Through it all the demand for organic milk has been growing. It s a double whammy to have higher sales than you expect
and less milk,#said George L. Siemon, chief executive of Cropp, the farmers co-op that produces Organic Valley milk and much of the milk sold as supermarket store brands.
We re sweating bullets over it.##The shortages have been most noticeable on the East Coast
Target says that it has had difficulty keeping organic milk on shelves nationwide. Wegmans, a chain with 79 stores from Massachusetts to Virginia, said it has had shortages of milk from Horizon, a major national brand.
And Publix, with about 1, 050 stores in five Southeastern states, said shortages started in November in both its store brand, Publix Greenwise Market organic milk,
and national brands like Horizon and Organic Valley. Supplies are sporadic##said Kimberly Jaeger, a Publix spokeswoman.
We are working with our suppliers to secure as much organic milk as we can.##Dairy industry executives predicted that the shortage
along with plans by processors to increase the amount paid to farmers meant that retail prices would rise in the next several weeks by as much as 10 percent.
Organic milk sales are growing, even though the milk costs significantly more than the conventional kind. Sales of whole organic milk increased 17 percent from January through October,
measured by volume, compared with the same period last year, according to the Agriculture department. Reduced-fat organic milk sales rose by 15 percent.
At the same time, total conventional milk sales decreased 2 percent. While the shortage may be frustrating for consumers,
it reveals a bitter truth for organic dairy farmers, who say they simply need to be paid more for their milk.
If it doesn t happen, the milk s not going to be said there Tony Azevedo, an organic dairy farmer in Stevinson, Calif,
. and the president of the Western Organic Dairy Producers Alliance, a farmer group. And you re going to have more and more consumers that are going to be turned away.#
#The alliance sent a letter to major milk processors like Organic Valley and Horizon this month,
spelling out the economic difficulties facing organic dairy farmers. The letter cited the sharp rise in the cost of hay
processors would have to increase the amount paid to farmers by $5 for every 100 pounds of milk.
#Mr. Azevedo also said that retailers should do their part by lowering their markup on organic milk
Mr. Azevedo, who sells his milk to the Organic Valley co-op, said that he receives a base payment of about $24. 50 for each 100 pounds of milk, known as a hundredweight.
Like many farmers, he gets bonuses linked to milk quality and seasonal factors, which bring his total payment to about $27 a hundredweight.
Organic dairy farming costs more than conventional farming for many reasons. Farmers must keep their animals on pasture
Mr. Azevedo said that cows on organic farms typically produce much less milk than cows on conventional farms.
because they can sell organic milk for more money. But this year, the price of conventional milk has risen closer to the organic price,
while the costs of conventional dairy farming have not risen as much as organic costs have. Mr. Siemon said that a handful of Organic Valley s dairy farmers had switched back to conventional farming this year,
an almost unheard of move in the past. Like never before, we ve seen them go back to conventional milk#
Mr. Siemon said. Mr. Siemon said that his company was able to give retail customers about 90 to 95 percent of the milk they order.
Scott Mcginty, president of Aurora Organic Dairy, another large processor, estimated that there is a 20 percent shortfall in organic milk nationwide.
The shortage has been pronounced most in the Northeast, where dairy farms tend to be smaller than in the West and where a single company, Stonyfield Farm of New hampshire, buys a large portion of the local organic production.
Stonyfield makes yogurt, cheese and other products. Tight supplies have led the industry to extremes. Mr. Siemon says that to fill spot gaps in production he has had to send trucks of milk from the Midwest to the East Coast or from California to the Midwest.
The shortage has compelled also a start-up yogurt company in New york to make plans to produce its yogurt in California and truck it across the country to a plant on Long island,
where it will be packaged. Dean Horowitz, chief executive of the company, A&d Yogurt, said he was not able to get a reliable supply of organic milk in the Northeast.
The company plans to open a store on Long island next spring where it will sell regular and frozen yogurt.
It also plans to sell a line of yogurt mixed with vegetables for dogs. For us to provide ourselves with enough security and enough milk
we re going to ship it across the country, #Mr. Horowitz said. He said the shipping will add about 12 percent to production costs.
It comes just months after Chinese scientists announced they had modified genetically a herd of around 300 diary cows to produce milk with the same qualities as human breast milk,
ranging from calcium-enriched orange juice to fortified sugary cereals and milk with added omega 3 fatty acids.
3.)Pixie still had milk after giving birth to her 1st litter of pups few months earlier,
in addition to adhering to a healthy diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and protein from fish, poultry and low-fat dairy products.
1) yogurt, the gold medalist, and (2) nuts, the silver medalist (and this category included one of my personal favorites, that luscious legume, peanut butter).
and good yogurt tastes like dessert. What is the why#behind these results? It turns out that satisfaction is the key.
Plus, yogurt and nuts contain lots of protein, designed to keep your energy higher for longer.
apparently held up well in zero-gravity. 8. Yogurt Bone loss is a problem during long-duration spaceflights,
so a calcium-rich food like yogurt is a popular menu choice. Astronauts can choose from blueberry-raspberry, peach and strawberry.
For the picky eater, theres always yogurt-covered granola bars. 7. Chicken soup Feeling a bit under the weather?
vegetables, milk, seafood and water and, in hot spots more than 100 km from the plant, tea.
#Glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 chemicals Scientists found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
A cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, can be found in a glass of milk,
they found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
but the results highlight how man-made chemicals are now found throughout the food chain. the highest quantities of medicines were found in cows milk.
or got into milk through cattle feed or contamination on the farm. The Spanish-Moroccan team analysed 20 samples of cows milk bought in Spain and Morocco,
along with samples of goat and breast milk. Their breakdown, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, revealed that cows milk contained traces of anti-inflammatory drugs niflumic acid
mefenamic acid and ketoprofen#commonly used as painkillers in animals and people. It also contained the hormone 17-beta-estradiol, a form of the sex hormone oestrogen.
The hormone was detected at three millionths of a gram in every kilogram of milk, while the highest dose of niflumic acid was less than one millionth of a gram per kilogram of milk.
However, the scientists, led by Dr Evaristo Ballesteros, from the University of Jaen in Spain, say their technique could be used to check the safety of other types of food.
Dr Ballesteros said: We believe the new methodology will help to provide a more effective way of determining the presence of these kinds of contaminants in milk or other products.
Food quality control laboratories could use this new tool to detect these drugs before they enter the food chain.
The tests also found niflumic acid in goats milk, while breast milk contained traces of painkillers ibuprofen and naproxen,
along with the antibiotic triclosan and some hormones. The researchers say their new 30-minute test is the most sensitive of its kind.
If the findings are true for Spanish and Moroccan milk, they could equally be true for milk produced in Britain and Northern europe.
Last year Portsmouth University scientists found that fish were being contaminated with the antidepressant Prozac. The drug enters rivers from the sewer system and tinkers with the brain chemistry of fish,
#Chinese Scientists Modify Cows to Produce Human Breast Milk Isnt it hard for the babies to suck off the cow udders?
Chinese scientists have modified genetically dairy cows to produce human breast milk, and hope to be selling it in supermarkets within three years#The milk produced by the transgenic cows is identical to the human variety
and has the same immune-boosting and antibacterial qualities as breast milk, scientists at Chinas Agricultural University in Beijing say.
The transgenic herd of 300 was bred by inserting human genes into cloned cow embryos which were implanted then into surrogate cows.
The milk is still undergoing safety tests but with government permission it will be sold to consumers as a more nutritious dairy drink than cows milk.
Workers at the universitys dairy farm have tasted already the milk and say it is sweeter and stronger than the usual bovine variety.
Its good,#said worker Jiang Yao. Its better for you because its genetically modified.##Via Arbroath Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati n
#Donkeyâ##s Milk Helps You Lose weight: Study Study shows drinking donkeys milk is good for you. Cleopatra would bathe in it as part of her beauty regime.
Milk from donkeys, which was still being drunk in Victorian times, contains less fat and is more nutritious than cows milk.
Researchers have found that drinking donkeys milk could be a good way to lose weight and protect your heart.
They also found that it be a natural protection to the heart as it contains omega three and six fatty acids, similar to fish oil,
As it is also much closer to human milk it could be used in young children who are allergic to normal dairy products.
The study at the University of Naples, Italy, compared the effect of donkey milk compared to cows milk in diet and health.
In experiments, they found that the cows milk and donkey milk provided the same amount of energy
Rodents that were given the donkey milk also showed lower levels of triglycerides, unhealthy fats that affect the heart,
#Earlier research has shown that it could even be better than semi-skimmed, soya or formula milk,
Its make up is very similar to human breast milk and because it is low in proteins it can be used in young children who are allergic to proteins in cows milk.
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#Inventing the Rocking chair Tree Futurist Thomas Frey: On Tuesday evening we had packed a audience at the Davinci Institute to discuss the future of micro farming.
Low-Fat Dairy Doesnâ##t Help Kids Lose weight Neither weight nor BMI had changed noticeably six months after children switched to low
-or reduced-fat dairy products. Australian researchers have found that kids who swap out regular dairy products for low-fat varieties consume less saturated fat
but dont seem to lose weight. They found neither weight nor body mass index (BMI) had changed noticeably six months after children switched to low
-or reduced-fat dairy products. Instead of trimming their waistlines, kids who slashed fat intake appeared to compensate by eating more calories from other sources,
The researchers asked one group to replace their dairy products with low-fat varieties for six months
Both groups consumed similar amounts of dairy products, and the total calorie intake remained more or less stable over the study,
which was supported in part by Dairy Australia. Nurses interviewed the kids and parents on their dairy eating habits at the beginning of the study,
and at three and six months. They also drew blood and measured BMI and waist circumference.
According to Greg Miller of the National Dairy Council (NDC), which represents the industry in the U s.,this falls in line with other research on kids, where milk shows either a positive or neutral impact on body composition.
A lot of researchers say that if we just get people to consume low-fat or reduced-fat products,
So looking at milk alone is not that helpful, Miller said. Franklin said its safe to switch to leaner dairy products,
which have less cholesterol but the same amount of nutrients, mainly calcium and Vitamin d. The only thing given up is saturated fat,
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or low-fat milk. And they could not contain unhealthful amounts of sugar, saturated fat, trans fat and salt.
Prices for fruits and vegetables, dairy products, chicken and beef all increased. Coffee costs rose 3. 5 percent.
what they thought were conventionally and organically produced chocolate sandwich cookies, plain yogurt, and potato crisps.
#Genetically Modified Cows in China to Produce â Humanâ##Milk Scientists have created successfully a herd of more than 200 cows that is capable of producing milk that contains the characteristics of human milk.
so that the milk they produce is similar to human milk. The director of the State Key Laboratories for Agrobiotechnology at China Agricultural University says,
The scientists have created successfully a herd of more than 200 cows that is capable of producing milk that contains the characteristics of human milk.
The milk tastes stronger than cow or goat milk. Within ten years, people will be able to pick up these human milklike products at the supermarket#the healthy protein contained in human milk will be affordable for ordinary consumers.
Im nearly at a loss for words#A Times of India article points out that when children drink human milk it helps improve their immune systems and central nervous systems.
Indeed, breast feeding has been shown to have many benefits for children. However, why anyone other than children would benefit from drinking human milk,
in so much as they would benefit more than getting the same nutrients from non-creepily-genetically-modified animal sources, escapes me entirely.
If factory farmed dairy werent bad enough, now someone really thought it was a good idea to genetically modify the cows to produce a substance similar to something that humans already produce naturally.
two of them actual dairy) is added automatically; brown sugar is ostensibly optional, but its also added routinely
#London Ice cream Parlor Sells Breast Milk Ice cream Breast milk ice cream served in a martini glass.
But one restaurant in London is selling breast milk ice cream which is being served to customers in a cocktail glass.
Victoria Hiley, 35, from Leeds provided the first 30 fluid ounces of milk which was enough to make the first 50 servings.
A costumed Baby Gaga waitress serves the ice cream in a martini glass filled with the breast milk ice cream mix.
A costumed Baby Gaga waitress serves the ice cream in a martini glass filled with the breast milk ice cream mix.
I saw the advert offering to pay women to donate breast milk on a forum
Another 13 women have volunteered to donate their breast milk. To maintain the highest standards, health checks for the lactating women are exactly the same used by the NHS to screen blood donors.
Weve came up with a method of infusing ice-cream with breast milk. We wanted to completely reinvent it.
And by using breast milk weve definitely given it a one hundred percent makeover. Its just one of a dozen radical new flavours weve invented.
Cereal is likely to spill milk and small flakes all over the place, but many of you noted that eating cereal in a cup,
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#The Amish Raw milk Black market Raw milk Is A Hot Commodity Two people have died in the last 10 years from drinking unpasteurized milk.
and Mennonite dairy farmers who smuggle unpasteurized milk into New york to serve a market of raw milk devotees#Isaac has yet to be raided by the authorities,
Many in the raw milk community believe law enforcement picks on the Amish and Mennonites because they dont expect resistance.
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#Global Food Prices Hit Record Levels Sugar is among the items in the FAOS food price index.
and dairy is higher but still below its 2007 peak, the report said. Even positive news, like good rains in Argentina and a strong harvest in Africa, has failed to keep prices from rising.
Worlds Fourth Largest Dairy Cooperativearla Foods is headquartered in Denmark, and lay claim to being the fourth largest dairy cooperative in the world, with 7, 625 Danish and Swedish farmers as cooperative owners.
Now if one were set aside the question of how natural it is for human adults to drink milk intended by nature for baby cows,
then Arla does appear to walk their talk. The companys environmental targets for its own operations are a 34%reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020
Worlds Biggest Supplier of Organic Milk Arla lay claim to being the biggest supplier of organic milk in the world.
Currently 7%of the milk delivered to Arla is organic, with goal of this becoming 10.5%as of 2011.
as an incentive to convert to organic, pays their cooperative farmer members the higher price of organic milk in the last six of the two years required to complete conversion.
And they sell that in-conversion organic milk to customers as regular milk. So there is some solid background behind their push to be seen as the dairy company closer to nature.
Heres hoping their campaign to get kid outside is also successful. For as we often quote,
and Dairy Certified organic products cannot, by law, contain any GMOS. So those farmers who grow alfalfa to feed their dairy cows,
who in turn are there to produce organic milk? Theyre screwed if their alfalfa has been contaminated. Its no longer organic#under the law.
non-GMO dairy and meat products is diminished severely. 4. Increased (Not Decreased) Use of Chemical Weedkillers The USDAS own data shows that the adoption of Roundup Ready (GE) alfalfa would trigger a huge increase in the use
Getting dairy and meat from small family farms is a good start, but remember that no matter how careful they are,
#Dairy industry Fights FDAÂ##s Proposed New Drug Testing for Milk How could there possibly be antibiotics in my milk?
The dairy industry is butting heads with the FDA over the agencys plan to increase testing for antibiotics in milk.
while the industry says the new testing procedures would cause a lot of milk to be wasted because the results can take a full week to come back.
Certain farms are caught already regularly with milk containing illegal levels of drugs#nd farmers also use drugs that are tested not regularly for.
The New york times reports that the FDA had planned to test milk from about 900 dairy farms with a history of sending cows to slaughter
#Farmers are known also to ignore rules about the minimum wait time after administering drugs before sending an animal to slaughter or into milk production.
which led to the meat residues may also result in drug residues in milk.##More from the Times:
by the time a load of milk was found to be contaminated, it could already be in consumers refrigerators,
One Northeast cooperative, Agri-Mark, sent a letter to its members last month instructing them to dump milk
if it had been tested by the F. D. A. Agri-Mark must ensure that all of our milk sales, cheese,
State-level dairy controversy, too In semi-related news, the New mexico State supreme court stopped the governor this morning from halting publication of a new dairy industry regulation
despite that it was passed by the Water Quality control Commission in December#nd it turns out that the dairy industry had helped her write the executive order.
The dairy rule in question would require dairy owners install synthetic barriers to stop groundwater contamination from cow waste.
The court documents show that lawyers for the Dairy Group helped draft some language#for the executive order.
Our attorneys (for the Dairy Group) Dal Moellenberg and TJ Trujillo of Gallagher & Kennedy drafted some language for the ex. order.
#Milk From Organic Cattle Less Fatty Than Ordinary Milk Organic milk is better for your health.
Milk from organic cattle that eat a fresh grass diet is consistently better for your health, a new study claims.
Researchers have found that organic milk generally contained less saturated fat and more good fatty acids than milk produced at intensive commercial dairy farms.
Its health giving properties were also much less likely to be affected by changes in the weather.
Scientists at the University of Newcastle found nonorganic milk collected during a particularly poor UK summer
But they also discovered that switching to organic milk could help overcome these problems. Organic supermarket milk showed higher levels of nutritionally beneficial fatty acids compared with ordinary#milk regardless of the time of year or weather conditions.
Gillian Butler, who led the study, puts the differences down to a lower reliance on grazing and fertiliser suppressing clover on conventional farms.
which have been shown to alter the fatty acid intake and composition of milk. While protein, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and some mono and polyunsaturated fatty acids in milk are considered beneficial,
saturated fatty acids are believed to have a negative effect on human health. Were always being told to cut down on the saturated fat we consume
and switching to organic milk and dairy products provides a natural way to increase our intake of nutritionally desirable fatty acids,
vitamins and antioxidants without increasing our intake of less desirable fatty acids, #said Mrs Butler. By choosing organic milk you can cut saturated fats by 30-50 per cent
and still get the same intake of beneficial fatty acids, as the omega-3 levels are higher
#While undertaking their research into the differences between organic and conventional milk, the researchers discovered the surprising link between milk quality and our changing climate.
Their results suggest that if we continue to have wetter, cooler summers then farmers may have to rethink their current dairy practices.
There was a considerable difference between the milk bought in the first sampling period (July 2006 and January 2007) and corresponding times a year later.
The second set of samples, following a particularly wet summer in 2007, was saturated higher in fat and lower in beneficial fatty acids.
and its Human Nutrition Centre, looked at the quality of 88 different milks in supermarkets across North East England at varying times of year over a two-year period.
They concluded that organic brands of milk available in supermarkets are higher in beneficial fatty acids and omega-3 fatty acids in summer and winter.
This groundbreaking research proves for the first time that people buying organic milk will be benefiting from the higher levels of beneficial fatty acids in organic milk through the whole year.#
Youll notice that none of these food choices include dairy, a pleasant surprise. The official recommendation for Americans is 1, 000 mg/day from ages 19 to 50 and 1, 200 mg/day after that.
and increased the consumption of dairy products, cereal and potatoes. This confirms what we as parents know,
a breakfast of goat s milk, wine, sage tea or coffee, honey and bread. Lunch was almost always beans (lentils, garbanzos), potatoes, greens (fennel, dandelion or a spinachlike green called horta) and whatever seasonal vegetables their garden produced;
dinner was bread and goat s milk. At Christmas and Easter, they would slaughter the family pig
low in dairy (except goat s milk) and meat products, and also included moderate amounts of alcohol.
It emphasized homegrown potatoes, beans (garbanzo, black-eyed peas and lentils), wild greens and locally produced goat milk and honey.
low intake of saturated fats from meat and dairy was associated with lower risk of heart disease;
Goat s milk contained serotonin-boosting tryptophan and was easily digestible for older people. Some wild greens had 10 times as many antioxidants as red wine.
For breakfast, she served local yogurt and honey from the 90-year-old beekeeper next door.
People there with the same genetic background eat yogurt, drink wine, breathe the same air,
Besides meat and meat alternatives, students get protein in milk and legumes, she says. It s an outdated idea that kids aren t getting enough protein#most kids are eating twice the recommended amount#
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