Milk - It's doing a wallet bad.

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by Cottontop3000, Jul 18, 2007.

  1. Cottontop3000 Death Beckoned Registered Senior Member

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    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?
     
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  3. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    nope i pay for 6pints of milk £1.60, hey you get cheap petrol we get cheap milk!!
     
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  5. Enterprise-D I'm back! Warp 8 Mr. Worf! Registered Senior Member

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    Actually it's the same in my country lol

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    milk has steadily increased over the past couple years...
     
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  7. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    That's about $4.38 per gallon....
     
  8. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    oh yeah sorry my maths is shit!! (has yo've just found out)
     
  9. Enterprise-D I'm back! Warp 8 Mr. Worf! Registered Senior Member

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    Well...your math might be off, but you consider it "cheap"...matter of perception there
     
  10. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    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"
     
  11. Hip Hop Skeptic Registered Member

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    I dont drink milk.
     
  12. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    why not?
     
  13. superstring01 Moderator

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    I drink Silk Soy Milk. So I have no idea what regular milk costs. Silk is already expensive enough.

    ~String
     
  14. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    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.
     
  15. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    americans and your gallons of milk. we measure petrol in gallons. fat bastards

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


    peace.
     
  16. Neildo Gone Registered Senior Member

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    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
     
  17. Medicine*Woman Jesus: Mythstory--Not History! Valued Senior Member

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    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?
     
  18. MacGyver1968 Fixin' Shit that Ain't Broke Valued Senior Member

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

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

    Does anyone know what has caused the price jump?
     
  19. Read-Only Valued Senior Member

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    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.
     
  20. Hip Hop Skeptic Registered Member

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    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.
     
  21. Cottontop3000 Death Beckoned Registered Senior Member

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    Medicine*Woman, good to see you still here.

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    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.
     
  22. lucifers angel same shit, differant day!! Registered Senior Member

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    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.
     
  23. mikenostic Stop pretending you're smart! Registered Senior Member

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    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.


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

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

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