Anyone else notice the recent jump in milk prices? Here in my little town of 10,000 in West Texas, it's jumped from $2.99 to $3.79 a gallon in just a few months. What do you guys think about this and is it the same in your towns?

nope i pay for 6pints of milk £1.60, hey you get cheap petrol we get cheap milk!!

Actually it's the same in my country lol :eek: milk has steadily increased over the past couple years...

nope i pay for 6pints of milk £1.60, hey you get cheap petrol we get cheap milk!!

That's about $4.38 per gallon....

That's about $4.38 per gallon....

oh yeah sorry my maths is shit!! (has yo've just found out)

Well...your math might be off, but you consider it "cheap"...matter of perception there

Well...your math might be off, but you consider it "cheap"...matter of perception there

milk is cheap here, ok granted not has cheap has it has been but cheap none the less. school children used to have free milk every day at school but that is no more because they cant afford it!! but my kids are never told "no you cant drink that milk"

I dont drink milk.

I dont drink milk.

why not?

I drink Silk Soy Milk (http://www.silksoymilk.com/). So I have no idea what regular milk costs. Silk is already expensive enough.

~String

nope i pay for 6pints of milk £1.60, hey you get cheap petrol we get cheap milk!!



fuck not in london. for 6 pints? we cant even get a bottle of milk that holds 6 pints. we get 4 pinters maximum in london, and they are like nearly £2.00

peace.

americans and your gallons of milk. we measure petrol in gallons. fat bastards :). why do you call petrol gas by the way? its not gas its liquid.


peace.

I drink Silk Soy Milk.

:o

Hope you've yet to grow man-boobs.

Seems like everything these days has some crazy side-effect. Soy with it's estrogen overload, etc.

- N

Anyone else notice the recent jump in milk prices? Here in my little town of 10,000 in West Texas, it's jumped from $2.99 to $3.79 a gallon in just a few months. What do you guys think about this and is it the same in your towns?*************
M*W: Hey, Cottontop, haven't talked to you since you reappeared! Whazzup?

Seems like there'd be enough cows out there in West Texas to make milk cheaper than here in Big H. I'm lactose intolerant, so I could care less how much it costs, but I feel for the young kids here. I don't like milk due to all the hormones they flush into it. Not good for the bambinos, ya know? Especially not good for pregnant mamas, either! No telling what milk is doing to a body, eh?

Good to hear from you. How's the blessed event been going?

Well..here in Texas...we raise more eatin' cows than milkin' cows. :)

Hey Cotton...good to see there's another Texan here..btw, I live in Dallas.

Does anyone know what has caused the price jump?

Well..here in Texas...we raise more eatin' cows than milkin' cows. :)

Hey Cotton...good to see there's another Texan here..btw, I live in Dallas.

Does anyone know what has caused the price jump?

Yep - the same thing that caused pizzas (the cheese part) to jump and several other things as well: all the corn being diverted from animal feed and going into ethanol production. Bread and others cereal-based products will also rise as more and more land that was used to grow wheat, rice and soy is being converted to corn production.

why not?


It is not tasty to me in its pure drinking form.

I TRY to avoid dairy, but I do like yogurt, milk chocolate, and milk on cereal.

Although, I do prefer cereal dry straight out the box some if it tastes really good in the traditional milk and bowl way.

Raisin Bran YUMMY.

Medicine*Woman, good to see you still here. :) I said hi to you in one of the religious threads, but I figured you must have missed it. I asked you if you've read God is not Great, by Christopher Hitchens. I had just finished it and thought it was good. You should get it if you have the time, though I wish he'd written it at a level that would appeal more to the masses. It's a little too intellectual for that audience. Great book though. Thanks for the welcome back!

MacGyver1968, I used to live in Dallas (actually Richardson and Mesquite, at different times) and Medicine*Woman is a Texan too. Nice to have you here.

Back to the Milk, though. I was told at my grocery store by the manager that the jump in price was due to ethanol production too. It just seemed a bit of a big jump in price though (almost 30%) for that. I wouldn't be surprised if Milk producers are using that as an excuse for them to gouge us and perhaps also give the whole "global warming" crowd a black eye. I mean hell, it's been $2.99/gallon for decades.

fuck not in london. for 6 pints? we cant even get a bottle of milk that holds 6 pints. we get 4 pinters maximum in london, and they are like nearly £2.00

peace.

there's a saying here in "Shitpool" whoops i meant "Blackpool" your pound goes further here, and its true!! it really does, i can do a week shopping for 6 people on diets for certain illness's for about £60.

americans and your gallons of milk. we measure petrol in gallons. fat bastards :)
Milk is about the last thing you can blame for Americans being fat bastards.
I drink 2-3 gallons of milk per week. I'm 5'11" ~170lbs and ~12% body fat.
But then again, I'm smart enough to buy/drink 1% milk, not whole milk.


why do you call petrol gas by the way? its not gas its liquid.


peace.

Because 'gas' is short for gasoline, just like petrol is short for petroleum spirit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline

Does anyone know what has caused the price jump?

i know that in New Zealand the milk payout for farmers has gone up by about 27% this season, so id say that is a side-affect of the milk company giving themselves a raise and not wanting to upset the shareholders(dairy farmers own the co-op but have very little influence in it for some reason). bottom line however is still that we only get paid around 40c/l for our milk which is then stripped of 2/3 the milk fat(the best part) and sold on to the consumer at $1.50/l.

It's about $4 CDN per gallon here, been the same for a long time.

The cow wants better pay :D

americans and your gallons of milk. we measure petrol in gallons. fat bastards :). why do you call petrol gas by the way? its not gas its liquid.

This may already have been answered-- "gas" is short for "gasoline".

~String

milk round here (NJ) costs 3.70 a gallon. Seems fine t0 me.

Milk is about the last thing you can blame for Americans being fat bastards.
I drink 2-3 gallons of milk per week. I'm 5'11" ~170lbs and ~12% body fat.
But then again, I'm smart enough to buy/drink 1% milk, not whole milk.

Correct...what you can blame obesity on is the rest of the rubbish they gorge on...KFC, Burger King, Wendy's, many forms of pizza, plus you can supersize anything for like a quarter. Even milk products...chocolate drinks, milkshakes etc...Can anyone say "an apple a day"?

At any rate, that is another thread...

As a vegan, I drink neither milk nor a milk substitute. It is disgusting puss, and facilitates the disintegration of the human body.

As a vegan, I drink neither milk nor a milk substitute. It is disgusting puss, and facilitates the disintegration of the human body.

and also its good for your teeth!! and your bones need it!

Anyone else notice the recent jump in milk prices? Here in my little town of 10,000 in West Texas, it's jumped from $2.99 to $3.79 a gallon in just a few months. What do you guys think about this and is it the same in your towns?

You're lucky you dont live in the united kingdom of tesco and asda if you find that worth starting a blog about. Come over to England and you really will feel you are screwed on the cost of living.

You're lucky you dont live in the united kingdom of tesco and asda if you find that worth starting a blog about. Come over to England and you really will feel you are screwed on the cost of living.

london is really bad to live in, its so expensive

and also its good for your teeth!! and your bones need it!

This is absolute rubbish. The sugars in milk decay your teeth, and there are countless sources of calcium in the vegetable kingdom.

Gas prices go up, which means it costs more to drive milk to the store. Plastic is made of petroleum which means the jugs cost more to make. And then there's this.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06157/696129-84.stm

My husband is an ice cream junkie and it kills him when I won't buy it at $5.25 a half gal.

This is absolute rubbish. The sugars in milk decay your teeth, and there are countless sources of calcium in the vegetable kingdom.

if you dont need milk then why are new born babies fed by breast milk!! :p

midwives suggest you breast feed.

You're lucky you dont live in the united kingdom of tesco and asda if you find that worth starting a blog about. Come over to England and you really will feel you are screwed on the cost of living.

Yeah, but your health-care system is geared towards keeping you healthy, whereas ours is exorbitantly overpriced and geared towards keeping us sick.

if you dont need milk then why are new born babies fed by breast milk!! :p

midwives suggest you breast feed.

Duh. Why would nature put something better on the outside of what we are already endowed with? Without breast feeding, kids turn out weird. They need all those lipid molecules and vitamins and ameno acids that human-manufactured formulas just cant compare to. Also lack of contact with their mothers screws up the stages of ego and super ego development. I just don't understand why mothers wouldnt breast feed. Why deny instinct and nature? Oh right...social conditioning....

Anyway, Milk is just wierd...from other animals, that is. Whats with out hook on it? Some creature comfort we retain from being forced to grow up too fast? I've heard that too much (foreign) milk leeches calcium from your bones, and I try not to drink it so much anymore. It was a reliable source in my mind when I heard it, but It was a few years ago and I was a bit more gullible than now. I'd research it, but when it comes down to my cereal in the morning, I'd rather go ignorant.

Duh. Why would nature put something better on the outside of what we are already endowed with? Without breast feeding, kids turn out weird. They need all those lipid molecules and vitamins and ameno acids that human-manufactured formulas just cant compare to. Also lack of contact with their mothers screws up the stages of ego and super ego development. I just don't understand why mothers wouldnt breast feed. Why deny instinct and nature? Oh right...social conditioning....

Anyway, Milk is just wierd...from other animals, that is. Whats with out hook on it? Some creature comfort we retain from being forced to grow up too fast? I've heard that too much (foreign) milk leeches calcium from your bones, and I try not to drink it so much anymore. It was a reliable source in my mind when I heard it, but It was a few years ago and I was a bit more gullible than now. I'd research it, but when it comes down to my cereal in the morning, I'd rather go ignorant.

i have three children breastfed the first 2 but i couldnt breast feed my last child, and he doesnt get any more or less colds, and bugs has his brother and sister, i am not argueing that breast milk is best, because it is, but some of us have no choice but not breast feed.