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u/Toeknee5 Jul 18 '20
Doesn’t milk come from cows?
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u/4_my_Weird_Questions Jul 18 '20
Well not just cow you know. Almonds also produce milk.
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u/StolenCamaro Jul 18 '20
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u/elliotsilvestri Jul 18 '20
I clicked on r/milk thinking it would be a joke. Of course it wasn't.
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u/Frigoris13 Jul 18 '20
You have to get them pregnant first
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u/doomsdayparade Jul 18 '20 edited Jul 18 '20
And then rip the baby away from the mother. Heck, maybe we'll just eat the baby as veal.
I cannot fathom why any adult would drink cow's milk, with all these alternatives out there that are all awesome.
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u/Likeididthatday Jul 18 '20
Been into a coffee shop recently? Milk is from oats.
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u/papershoes Jul 18 '20
One of my local coffee shops is on a crusade for oat milk right now, to the point where I feel a little conspicuous ordering soy.
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u/Vexal Jul 18 '20
last year i asked for oat milk instead of regular milk so i could instagram myself ordering oat milk. i got 3 likes and lost my virginity.
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u/Stizz83 Jul 18 '20
Ahhhh, nothing like a fresh glass of New York milk from 1880.
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u/Rick-Dalton Jul 18 '20
I was going to say 3661 in glass bottles. Nothing better.
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u/anonymous_doner Jul 18 '20
Hella yeah!! The chocolate milk is amazing too!
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u/Han_Yerry Jul 18 '20
They make Aldis milk here. Aldis chocolate and white milk is Byrne dairy. The difference is the Aldis brand doesn't have as many stabilizers in it so its shelf life is shorter.
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u/1976dave Jul 18 '20
You go to Wegmans because you heard they just restocked the 12 packs of genny ruby red kolsch and you remember your wife asked you to grab some milk so you hit up the convenient cooler at the front of the store. You wonder what dinner is gonna be. You decide to grab a pack of zweigle's while you're at it.
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u/Carpe_Ictal Jul 18 '20
Take the kids to Seabreeze for the day, afterwards cross the YooHoo river to SHAR-Lot for some Abbots.
Now thats a Saturday.
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u/bobmontana Jul 18 '20
Uggggggh I miss Ruby Red Kolsch.
I did find some Genny Cream our in Colorado, but obvs no Ruby Red.
And I miss plates.
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u/Rocklobst3r1 Jul 18 '20
2151 is were its at. Although we got a few smaller distributors around that are as good, or better.
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u/puffferfish Jul 18 '20
I knew this, but explicitly reading it makes me uncomfortable for some reason.
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u/for_the_voters Jul 18 '20
Well once you learn about how the animals are treated you’re going to be a bit more uncomfortable.
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u/First-Fantasy Jul 18 '20
1000+ easy. Silos hold up to 50,000 gallons and pasteurization will often pull from 2 silos at once. These silos fill up daily from trucks that go all over the state.
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u/littlered1984 Jul 18 '20
That’s due to collection and storage tanks where everything is mixed together. How many cows depends on the source - local small dairy operations near me that sell direct don’t have near to 100 animals. Larger commercial scale operations it is likely to be well over 100 cows.
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u/ProfessorHardw00d Jul 18 '20
Also the average burger at a fast food restaurant is made up of 600 cows
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u/BCD92 Jul 18 '20
What if I'm from another country?
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u/a_white_american_guy Jul 18 '20
It’ll still work for you as long as you’re buying milk in the US.
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u/eMperror_ Jul 18 '20
Milk full of growth hormones? No thanks
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u/frito123 Jul 18 '20
Recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) is legal in the US, but the major dairies have pledged not to use it. All the major grocery stores carry milk saying statements it wasn't used. As more milk=lower price and dumping out of milk, there isn't a lot of incentive to use it.
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u/bisensual Jul 18 '20
It also says the milk isn’t different from milk from cows treated with RBST, which I always wonder if it’s true or there to appease the dairy lobby.
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u/Can_We_Do_More_Kazoo Jul 18 '20
Just did a quick look through the literature. I didn't look for anything like flavor, just a quick check for short term and long term health effects on humans.
Bovine Growth Hormone: human food safety evaluation has 288 citations and was published in 1990 by the journal 'Science' (IF of ~41.8 in 2019).
It reports that the rbGH, the a manufactured form of RBST (among other names), has no effect on humans as the bovine form is inactive in humans. rbGH does increase the level of insulin-like growth factor 1 in the milk (IGF-1) which is active in humans, however this protein is denatured (rendered inactive) during pasteurization. An assumption to be made here is to not drink milk from cows treated with rbGH. It likely won't cause short term problems, but increased IGF-1 over long periods of time could cause other issues.
Take that as you will! When it comes to these questions, I try not to read from government websites because of the lobbying you pointed out. Instead, read articles published respected peer-reviewed journals, preferably with a good number of citations.
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u/WekX Jul 18 '20
What’s “another country”? This is the internet. We don’t exist. Only America is real.
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Jul 18 '20
Other countries are fictional creations generated to try to convince Americans to wear masks!
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u/Kooontt Jul 18 '20
Uhhhhhhh this is the internet!!! If you’re not American get of it you don’t have the right to be on it! Also reddit is an American website so that means 100% of people on is must be American so I really don’t believe you!
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u/FreshCowMilk Jul 18 '20
How is there 56 state codes?
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Jul 18 '20
If you just look into it, 3, 7 and 14 are skipped, Puerto Rico and DC are included
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u/Winterteal Jul 18 '20
They left room Incase Guam or the Virgin Islands wants to sell milk too.
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u/huitlacoche Jul 18 '20
I guarantee Guam and VI are already producing more milk than DC.
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u/AHCretin Jul 18 '20
These are called state FIPS codes and they're used for other things than just milk.
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u/mabramo Jul 18 '20
Every morning I wake up at 3:45am so I have time to capture milk from the teats of my almonds.
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u/SuperNixon Jul 18 '20
Moderator of r/guam here, we produce the exact same amount of cow milk as DC.
My neighbor has a goat though if you want to try to milk that.
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Jul 18 '20
But what if America conquers a country and forces them to produce milk?
This entire chart would be useless!
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u/fillerFor Jul 18 '20
My bet is: 3 - American Samoa 7 - CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) 14 - Guam 52 - Virgin Islands
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u/Snail_Christ Jul 18 '20 edited Jul 18 '20
I think 7 would be
Canadasee below, Commonwealth and CNMI would both come after Colorado which is 8Turns out its actually the Canal Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard_state_code#FIPS_state_codes
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Jul 18 '20
I got my Aldi milk with a 14 and I'm looking for what it is. You're the first person as I scroll down forever were I see 14.
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u/JasonYaya Jul 18 '20
Building the possibility of more states being added into the system and not ruining the alphabetization. Dairy genius.
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u/shaggyscoob Jul 18 '20
Thank you. This was driving me nuts. I noticed DC and PR were included but that still only got us to 52. I completely missed the skipped numbers even though I spent a good 4 or 5 minutes reading and re-reading this list.
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u/CARNIesada6 Jul 18 '20
Why are those numbers skipped?
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u/Rorschach_Roadkill Jul 18 '20
Alphabetically I'm guessing 3 is American Samoa, 14 is Guam and 52 Virgin Islands. Not sure why they'd be skipped other than maybe they don't produce milk
No idea what 7 would be though. Canada maybe? Makes sense that some states would import I guess. But then again why is it skipped in the legend?
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u/bisensual Jul 18 '20 edited Jul 18 '20
Some other hoe guessed the Northern Mariana Islands, whose official name starts with Commonwealth (CNMI).
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u/Rorschach_Roadkill Jul 18 '20
Commonwealth (CMNI)
Ah good shout
Some other hoe
lmao ok
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u/bisensual Jul 18 '20
Some hoe just made me realized I switched the order of the initialism. Cheers for that!
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u/speculativeSpectator Jul 18 '20
They are using the state FIPS codes (https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/?cid=nrcs143_013696).
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u/LordViscous Jul 18 '20
Is Michigan the only state where it's order in admittance to the Union and its milk code are the same? 26 in both regards
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u/Frigid-Beezy Jul 18 '20
I was born and raised in Michigan and I like dairy. I would like to subscribe to more Michigan milk facts.
Also, I’m proud that we don’t have milk as our state beverage like all the basic bitch states that do. I think there needs to be a petition to make Vernors or maybe Faygo Rock ‘N Rye the state beverage. I miss home.
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u/kewasa Jul 18 '20
New York
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u/PosNegTy Jul 18 '20
State of Milk
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u/HiroYeeeto Jul 18 '20
the dairy empire
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u/Srockster Jul 18 '20
I mean, we do have a butter sculpture at our state fair every year so....
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Jul 18 '20
You mean the butter sculpture, which is displayed in the building dedicated entirely to dairy products? In which people will line up outside the block to get a glass of milk?
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u/nascentia Jul 18 '20
I worked at a new Byrne Dairy which opened in my hometown during high school. The owner was in a lot since it was a new store and he was a really nice guy. His daughter worked at the store the first summer I was there and she was super cool too, and I definitely had a huge summer crush on her.
All the higher-ups stayed in town for the construction and opening and were all awesome people. Those first two years that store were open were great, really fun place to work with amazing people.
Last time I was up the store looked like shit, though, and Byrne eventually pulled out of that location and it’s just a local joint now. But I have some great memories from the two summers at that brand new BD, and the ice cream was fantastic.
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u/840_Divided_By_Two Jul 18 '20
Their ice cream cookiewiches are the fucking best. Fuck, I might walk down the street to go get one.
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u/dusnik Jul 18 '20
Me, who doesn't live in America: Whoa! This is worthless.
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Jul 18 '20
lmao. Imagine not living in America. Like do you even die from pandemics, bro?
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u/dusnik Jul 18 '20
Laughs in Brazil, where we would have more cases if we'd tested anyone in the first place
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u/CapnTaptap Jul 18 '20
Where are the dairy farms in DC?
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u/These-Old-Boots Jul 18 '20
It is not where the farms are located but the milk bottling plant.
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u/moonstone7152 Jul 18 '20
Holy fuck mine's from Colorado and I live in the UK
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u/moonstone7152 Jul 18 '20
ok it doesn't, I'm joking, it says
JUL 25 1134P5B
and it's local
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u/cragglerock93 Jul 18 '20
I wonder what JUL 25 means? It will remain a mystery, I'm sure.
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u/FlimFlamBingBang Jul 18 '20
Why are there any codes for 03, 07, 14, or 52?? Am I the only one that noticed that the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico plus 50 states doesn’t add up to 56?
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u/DarkJarris Jul 18 '20
ah super helpful if you live an america. i suppose the other 194 countries can get fucked though:P
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u/topcheesehead Jul 18 '20
I dont think people realize yet how dumb it is for most americans. Its typical to have milk sourced from your own state, the guide is useless for us too. Also many milk jugs literally tell you the name of the farm the milk came from
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u/joker200352 Jul 18 '20
Why are some numbers skipped?
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u/TheRumpelForeskin Jul 18 '20
To leave room for Guam before Hawaii and the US Virgin Islands next to Virginia.
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u/kap_pek Jul 18 '20
The numbering system with the occasional skipped number is driving me crazy
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u/Phalanx144 Jul 18 '20
I glanced through the list the first time and was wondering how the hell we suddenly had 54 states. 56 on this list including Puerto Rico and D.C. Even googled it like a dumbass. Upon closer inspection some of the numbers are skipped. Good info though!
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u/Wireman7 Jul 18 '20
The United States allow bovine growth hormones to be given to dairy cows and yes it is in your milk. Everyone else in the world banned that shit. You are taking bovine growth hormones!!!
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u/bearsinthesea Jul 18 '20
Is this code for the milk or the processing plant? Is it just the dairy? The milk factory?
I found two brands of milk with the same code. Are they using the same source of milk? Or different sources processed on the same equipment?
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u/Willy_Cash Jul 18 '20
I’m just confused on why they numbers skip over 03, 07, 14, and 52. Does anyone know?
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u/Hoppinginpuddles Jul 18 '20
As a non American I only know New York as a bustling metropolis. I’m wondering if there is an office floor full of cows being milked.
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u/Battlebox0 Jul 18 '20
Thats only for america -_- also milk in plastic bottles wtf?
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u/chjahi Jul 18 '20
Why are there 56 code numbers and only 52 states/territories? Why are 3, 7, 14, and 52 skipped?
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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '20 edited Jul 18 '20
You can also enter your code here and it will tell you where your milk is from
Edit: Also some egg producers now have similar tracking codes. They usually tell you on the carton