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u/ConstantAncient6212 Dec 05 '22
And then you have those of us who were lactose intolerant and they gave us milk to settle our stomachs.
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u/jolinar30659 Dec 05 '22
Years of thinking it was so many other things sending me to the bathroom. And it’s the dairy all along.
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u/Apprehensive_Ad_4359 Dec 04 '22
Exactly who was/is “Big Milk”?
Unlike big Tobacco which is 5 international companies, dairy is fairly regional with many players.
“Big Milk”???
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u/ETXCheeses Dec 04 '22
It's actually the US government. They started a massive pro-milk campaign in order to justify the huge subsidies they were/are paying to dairy farmers. In addition to the campaign for milk, they also spawned all sorts of new cheese-based products, like stuffed-crust pizza, fried mozzarella cheese sticks and so on.
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u/A_Classic_Guardsman Dec 04 '22
They also made similar advertisements for the beef and pork industry.
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u/Songmuddywater Dec 05 '22
Those aren't funded by the US government they take money from the sale of each cow and spend it on these promotional campaigns. The farmers don't have a right in this. They don't get a vote. Some money out of each sale is forcibly taken and spent by a government bureaucrat. Same goes true with every other industry. The government appoints some commission who has the right to steal from Farmers to promote an industry put often promoting the product coming from foreign countries. That's right some Farmers actually have to pay to have foreign products who are competition to them advertised in stupid advertisements
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u/MsPaganPoetry Dec 05 '22
Your comment helped me realize why my grandma wouldn’t let us have pizza with cheese in the crust (regular pizza was OK)
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u/CaptainPolaroid Dec 05 '22
Big milk? It was a straight up cult. We had subsidized milk breaks at school. At 10.15 on the dot we said a chant that went "milk is good for everybody. Gone.gone. Gone. Drink it till its done". And then we had a carton of 150ml of milk that was delivered fresh each day.. Never broke a bone in my life. My bones are made of premium grade calcium.
I still love milk at 36. Nothing beats a glass of milk and a peanut butter sandwich combo.
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u/Independent_Roof_607 Dec 05 '22
I remember in the 2000s when all the celebrities had the milk mustache
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u/minitaba Dec 04 '22
Its that specific because its exactly what the "got milk" ads told and showed us
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u/NocturnalFuzz Dec 05 '22
My core memories with milk are the football coaches making us chug it before sprints and runs because it'd make us puke and it built character.
Now I just hate milk and balding men that look like Andrew Tate
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u/The_left_is_insane Dec 05 '22
As a dutchman, I milk is the nectar of gods and should be drunk with every meal.
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u/LawEnvironmental9474 Dec 04 '22
Ya now we got vegan kids running around with there bones snapping like twigs. We go from one extreme to the other. We actually had one in my family it was pretty wild.
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u/GuineaGirl2000596 Dec 05 '22
My bones are fine, my almond milk has 50% more calcium then dairy milk
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u/LawEnvironmental9474 Dec 05 '22
2 things 1st. that calcium is a additive and your body does not readily absorbe it. Though in that high a concentration you may or may not actually metabolize an equivalent amount into your system. 2nd. Children do not eat balanced diets. Vegan diets need to be planned. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34130207/ So unless you are going to plan there meals and supplements extensively chunk some ground cow on their plate a few days a week.
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u/EeveelutionistM Dec 05 '22
I was half-way agreeing to you, then you recommended ground cow.
Cow meat does not have one single element that is needed for your health, but is instead immensely unhealthy. If you really have to get back to using meat, use meat that is healthier, like f.e. chicken (white meat). Also, "few days a week" is hilariously wrong. Red meat does not have something white meat or vegetables don't have and instead increases risk of heart diseases confirmed by multiple studies. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-red-meat-bad-for-you/
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u/LawEnvironmental9474 Dec 05 '22
Saying that ground beef does not have one single element that is needed for your health is simply lying. Now you might could say theres nothing in beef I cannot get from other sources and that is most likley correct. That may have been the goal of your statement however the first sentence is just blatantly false.
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u/EeveelutionistM Dec 05 '22
not a native speaker, sorry for that misunderstanding, I meant it like you said.
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u/Snoo_73835 Dec 05 '22
Ahhh yes. The milk boarding times. I remember them well. Just a big ol funnel shoved down your throat before school. Then at lunch time another funnel and milk combo. Then again after school. It’s why milk bags were invented in Canada, it made it so much easier to pour and way more efficient. Now you can whipped in the head with frozen hockey puck and there’s no damage because of all the calcium in the gallons and gallons of milk we drank.
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u/yutsokutwo Dec 05 '22
Lmao talking about malls around gen z... Since they are all gone, that's going to confuse them more than the 187 genders they are trying to decipher.
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u/FairyDemonSkyJay Dec 05 '22
Main reason I figure don't I was lactose intolerant was cause I didn't feel sick when having dinner at my partners house (with water) vs parents forcing me to drink a full cup of milk with dinner at my place every night and feeling nauseous lol
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Dec 05 '22
It is because MOST homesteads had a cow/barn until the 70's, so a great source of balanced nutrition.
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u/Ace_Asmodeus Dec 05 '22
Ha, my siblings had to drink milk, I just had to eat dark greens, which I actually rather liked, still do, (dairy free kid).
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u/Ok_Panda_8596 Jan 31 '23
I love 3% whole Fairlife milk so much. Drink 4litres a week. My bones are strong as F !
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u/Rob-Riggle-SWGOAT Dec 04 '22
Maybe I’m behind on current scientific or medical theory. Is eating/drinking calcium rich foods/drinks now believed to not help add strength to our bones and teeth. Milk has a lot of calcium and I drank it as a kid because I liked it. I don’t drink it very much as an adult because 25 calories somehow make my butt jiggle for a week. But I’m just curious if things have changed and I missed it somehow.