Can't drink milk unless it has additions like Baileys or Hot choc- or both. Now cream ahhh yes ma prechous..with cornflakes, ricies, porridge, honey puffs, nommy nom nom. Why doth my belleh acheth after tho?

That is really in depth and maybe way beyond my comprehension. As long as I have light blue milk for my cereal, then I am happy.

This should be a poll, not a discussion, look at people's answers. I'm trying, but you can call a cow a goat and it's still produces nasty milk that has to be homogenized......just saying.

Yes.

I usually buy 1 or 2% milk

I'd be more worried about the container the milks in esp if it's plastic. And I've tried it and you can taste the plastic ffs. I rarely drink cows milk anyhow and rather drink a healthier plant milk.

It's not a con. Why don't some people mind their own business. It meets the demand of the consumers that can't drink milk. One has to add something to their coffee or whatever. The more choices the Better! It's people's money they can buy whatever the want.Edited 27-Aug-22 21:40pm

Of course it's a con. There are far too many choices and the milk we buy is quite often sold out and we have to buy milk we don't really like. For years we had our milk delivered but as houses sold the new residents preferred to buy from the supermarket so the milko stopped coming and we had to find a new brand of milk. During our trial period we found some of these so called "good for you" milks simply don't keep, and Shape was the worst. We eventually found one we like and we are sticking to it whatever new brands come along.

of course, most advertising is about selling a need or a want rather than actually promoting any product or service.

Before the bottles there was the loose milk in a big can, my mum gave me our milk can to go to the corner shop, from the big milk can the woman filled with fresh milk my can with a big ladle. It was just called: MILK.

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While cows milk might taste good ...many adults aren't aware that they could have an allergic issue with milk. Not everyone gets the normal symptoms that comes with dairy foods . And the problem is not just milk either. According to research, many adults lose the ability to absorb lactose as they get older . Everyone should have a lactose test for potential allergy Milk allergies can make some people really ill. And what you might think is a illness, well it could be caused by milk.

People who drink milk that's in plastic cartons are risking their health. The plastic could get into the milk and distrupt your hormones. Milk in plastic cartons also tastes bad. Sometimes you can actually taste a plastic residue in there. Always buy milk in cartons and not plastic ones. I guess they won't bring back the old fashioned milk bottles as it costs more to make the glass.Edited 27-Aug-22 21:49pm

I've tried goats yoghurt, yuck, so I imagine goats milk would be pretty bad too.

Yes

I've tasted raw milk when I was a kid. Straight from someone's farm. It's supposed to be a health risk to have unpasteurised milk. But many say it's better for you than processed milk.

I buy full cream milk in glass bottles that are returned to the dairy for reuse. Dollop of cream on the top. I’m in suburbia and quite a few dairies have many stockists.

Unfortunately, even if we don't drink cows milk, it's in many products as milk solids, so many are getting milk even if they don't drink it. It's in some hot chocolate drinks as well. I'd like to see more manufacturers use alternative milks in food production.

I originally went to "dairy country " to live because of the fact that my daughter became extremely ill on "Nestle Baby Formula" and any sort of cow's milk. We raised her on goat's milk and had no further problems. Goat's milk has smaller fat globules which was causing the trouble apparently. By the age of 3 she could drink cow's milk or goat's milk without problems.

All MARKETING SPIN and nothing else though the synthetic milks are so highly processed and contain so little of what they say they are that they are probably worse for you than walking into the reactor of a Nuclear Power Station and staying there till you die.

Cows milk is for calves not humans. The dairy industry is one of the cruelest animal industries. For a cow to produce milk it has to be forcibly impregnated, give birth, have her baby calf taken from her all for a carton of milk for humans. Disgraceful. What happens to the calves. They are fed a powdered supplement that is if they are females. If they are male they are either stuck in a shed for veal, or slaughtered. When the cow is spent after being exploited for x amount of years she is then sent off to be slaughtered. How dare we. Conned is not the word I would use. We have a choice as to whether we support such a cruel industry or make a better choice and go plant based milk.

There is a big difference between A2 milk and other dairy milk. A2 milk does not contain the same protein that causes a lot of health issues. Cassien - not sure of spelling. People are extemely lucky if they have never experienced these issues. A2 milk for a start is much less likely to cause allergies. Ordinary milk can also cause neurological problems to be worse. I do agree about how long the milk aisle is in most shops. Crazy. I will never forget the phone call from my brother when I eventually persuaded him to cut milk out of his diet - he had really bad asthma (according) to his Doctor. Once he stopped drinking milk - Asthma gone!!!! No more medication.

Full fat milk on cereal, full cream long life in tea/coffee.

bring back bottle milk reduce the plastic overload taste better in glass

I gave up on milk years ago, it caused too many health issues. Only drink soy milk now with nothing to worry about.

I will still drink the same milk that I was raised on; full cream milk. Disappointed that you cannot buy it in a glass bottle with the cream on top, sealed with foil top.

Definately being conned. Personally I buy full cream milk as I dont have any health concerns and prefer the taste of full cream.

I like my low fat milk. I will drink full cream because it's yummy. all the others can be used by those that need" them. as a child I would drink the cream off the top of the bottle

I grew up on a farm and the only milk we had was good old fashion cows milk and we put it thru a machine which was turned by hand to separate the cream and yep it taste like cream

I would hate to work in a cafe, seriously the other so called milk isn't milk. Imagine how many types of milk you would need just in case some one asked for it. We drink UHT milk only because when we were travelling around Australia it was too hard to get fresh milk and then used it before it went off. Each to their own on this one and I know which we prefer.

We now have so-called "Milk" which is either Soy, Almond, Cashew, Peanut, Oat withnew varieties being added daily. They all claim to be better than REAL MILK - Milk from Cows, Sheep, Goats, Camels BUT check out the List of Ingredients in ALL those Fake "Milks! Most of the content is just Water with 3%, 4%, 5% or 7% Soy, Almond, Cashew, peanut, Oat - the rest is all ADDED Chemicals - Vitamins created in Laboratories which, it is claimed, they are "Nature Identical"! A bit like those so-called "Nature Identical" Flavourings, Colours and, Yes, their Chemical Formula is identical to the Real thing but they are made up using multiple chemicals to create those Flavours, Colours. The Truth is we don't really KNOW for certain what happens to those chemicals when they get all mixed up in our tummies. A Major International Company released a "Breath Freshener" some years ago loudly proclaiming that it contained "Copper Chlorophyll", they tasted great, they became addictive - in our shop we had people buying 3 and 4 packs per DAY. Problem? Copper Chlorophyll is what is called a "Heavy Metal" - the body is incapable of eliminating it so it simply accumulates in ever increasing amounts in your body. It is also Highly Carcinogenic.. If you were one of those who became addicted to these Extraordinarily Dangerous "Breath Fresheners" and you develop any form of Cancer then you will probably have a case against the makers. It is beyond time that the word "Milk" was only allowed to be used in Real Milk from Cows and other Living Animals.

I just heard that most of the milk alternatives are severely lacking in many ingredients..like selenium...the only exception being PEA MILK...which has higher levels than milk...I've never even seen Pea Milk...anyone else? Edited 27-Aug-22 13:51pm

I don't drink cows milk( I'm lactose intolerant) but I do have it in my coffee because anything else tastes revolting lol and I can tolerate that.In our household we just buy blue top milk,tried green top and it was too watery and bland.Never tried A2 milk and not likely to based on the fact it is over priced like most dairy products so we just stick to the cheapest brand of milk possible because they all taste the same in your coffee lol.

I prefer the extra cream of a Jersey or a Guernsey

The reason that we have so many different kinds of milk is that there are people who either want or need them. Before we were able to refrigerate milk and therefore extend its useful life most milk from cows was used to make either cheese or butter. Any milk that was drunk was made from either almods or hazlenuts and probably oats. They are easy to make.Some of us are lactose intolerant, others are vegan and do not want to use anything from an animal. Despite the plethora of choice in milk there are very few of them that I am able to consume because of restrictions to my diet. No, we are not being conned.

Just light milk for us

I always buy full cream, can't stand the taste of light milk

I don’t like or drink milk so I don’t care. My husband was born on a farm and loves milk. He would prefer straight from the cow. The thought makes me ill.Edited 27-Aug-22 12:28pm

I still take milk.regardless. I have tried plant milk, good taste. They need to come up with some other solution to curve the cow pee,

Just buy full cream milk.

We buy the good old full cream milk and yes we are being conned or some people are!

I buy the non-homogenized milk and absolutely love it. It has made no difference to my health and makes my coffee takes yummy

I have tried different milks but have always gone back to the full cream milk I grew up on milk straight from the cow which is the best.

YES

I thought we had clever cows who could make all sorts of milk Yes I’ve been conned

A2 milk predates A1 by about 7000 years. It has the same proteins but is more easily broken down. A1 exists because of a mutation that occurred in dairy cattle about 7000 years ago. Some people who have a definciency of the FPP enzyme are unable to break down the beta casein in A1 milk leaving a molecule that is similar in shape and size to opioids and has a similar effect to them. All milk from sheep and goats is A2.

I buy full cream milk. All the fake milks made from, nuts, oats, rice etc are usually about 95% water, with all kinds of additives!

Ha! You've been conned into drinking milk in the first place. Lol. So unnatural and unnecessary. But if you want to contribute to a lower level of personal health and greater destruction to the environment and the infliction of misery onto another sentient being, all the power to you. And yes. You have been completely conned.

It's making people a certain milk is so as to sell mor . As a dairy farmer I would is milk is milk the les processed the better the fat content is good for you .it's the process of harmoginiseation which breaks down all the different types of fat milk which is bad .as it allows the body to absorb all the fats good and bad. As for other types of so called milk if it doent come from an animal it should be called milk at all it just a marketing tool

I will stick to milk chocolate.

I don't think we are being conned. It is simply down to our choice.

yes, i too feel it is all a gimmick. I feel real milk is the only good healthy milk around.

Yes. Just a gimmick. I would like to know why pus keeps getting into the milk and thus you get a bad batch generally at least once a month. I am sick and tired of foul tasting milk. Also, the milk vats were washed out with iodine in the past (no disease has ever become resistant to iodine) instead of chlorine. So now we poison the environment and allow kids to develop cretinism. So we are not only be conned but made unhealthier.

So pleased to see many plant alternatives are removing the word 'milk' Personally I mostly drink raw [unpasturised (sp?)] cows milk. But if out I will have what ever they have, but not into the artificial alternatives that I think may actually be worse for the environment long term

Making a simple concept complicated. Choose what you want and taste best to you and provides the nutrients you want. It's a business, so everyone is going to put variables out to win the revenue game. I love the almond and oat milk that's been shelved. Great taste and less fat. Derived from natural sources. To each his own.

I grew up drinking whole mild and so did my kids! Then they day came when I could no longer drink cow's milk and now drink almond milk, sometimes cashes milk and love it!

I like cow's milk ,also soya milk .I stopped using soya milk because I read that soya milk is not good for older people, not sure if that true .I buy the light blue top and the dark blue top depends on my mood lol .I put milk into my coffee ,tea and cereal .I sometimes make a smoothie yummy.

I do not drink milk but with so many milk on the isle I think which one is the best I like almond milk which does not have milk in it at all

I don't drink milk at all. But if there is a market out there that seem to want it, they will make it. At least they have a choice.

I like white milk.

I’m lactose intolerant, so it limits me to what I can drink.

Yes we are being conned.

I prefer it shaken, not stirred…

I just like plain full cream cows milk

Wish they would go back to glass bottles. Milk doesn't taste the same out of a plastic bottle and you can reuse glass bottles

None of it is suitable for me.

Low fat milk is just ridiculous. Full cream milk is only 4% fat which makes it 96% fat free. How many diet foods can claim this?

As long as it is full cream and not plant based, I will have it :)

Milk is a food for baby animals - not humans or cats.

I totall agree with David J below. The "know it alls of nothing" should stop messing with our food chain. Leave well enough alone and let food taste like food that sustains and nourishes without added hormones and goodness knows what other crap they add for "our good". My Triple AAA Rating goes straight to the Cows or even Goats that produce the white liquid like nature intended, the same for Mother's Milk, if a child cries 'cos they're hungry, just out with it and plug that hole before the men/women in white coats contaminate it with their droplets of this, that and the other!!!Edited 27-Aug-22 06:48am

it is just simple marketing and profiting gimmick, just use your own insights, knowledge and wisdom

I just drink coconut milk for my smoothies, and regular whole milk for my cereal and coffee. Nothing fancy here!

I don't drink milk.

What's faster bread or milk? milk, because in a blink of an eye, its pastyoureyes [pasteurize] that was sad, this is worse, where does condensed milk come from,? dwarf cows,, and they get worse, the other day I bought a can of evaporated milk and was disappointed when I opened it because there was nothing in it

I am not familiar with this.

anything fot the stores to make money, In the long run people do not know what its doing to their diet. What happened to getting a cow and milking it for real milk.

Something in is sometimes not accurate at all times ,and paying top of our dearest dollar

Don’t drink much milk.

I really don’t see the big issues

there are no teats on almonds, cashews, etc, no teats, no milk, i like milk that comes from animals and the more cream content the better, i don't care if those other things they call milk will let me live an extra few years, those years will suck anyway ;-))

It's great to have options! but cows milk is The Best!!

Is an absolute con job (marketing in other words).

Agree, it’s all a money making exercise.

I love all the non-dairy milk like cashew milk. There is something I can drink these days. I was born with a milk protein allergy to all milk proteins and never out grew it. Love that I can have a smoothie and not have to avoid it because it has milk that makes me sick in it.

Isn't it bad for the environment to have cows being milked, APB? Since your an obsessive, green man, or Greenie, who thinks climate change is real, then you can't have it both ways and say it's ok to have cows, but what about CO2? Hypocrite!

A2 Milk tried it was too crazy about it. Sorry

Cows milk intolerance is very common in toddler's. And why do you think babies aren't given cows milk?

So what business is it of anyone else to tell someone what they should drink? Mind your own dam business. And APB, get lost! The alternative milk companies are catering to the consumers that need a healthier type of milk, as they can't tolerate the so called normal milk. It's also a commercial decision and they have a legitimate right to make money too. Edited 27-Aug-22 01:16am

I am lactose Intolerant - lactose is in (real aka cow) milk - which will cramp the f.... out of me. I drink (plant) milk which does contain lactose and does not cramp the f....out of me!Edited 27-Aug-22 07:16am

Fake MILK never killed anyone btw. Alternative milk it's called. Soy or almond milk is fine with me. You mentioned Asian people, but why do many Asians now sell milk? China drinks it and eats dairy products. China is the 3 largest dairy producing nation. Apparently it doesn't stop Asians from liking dairy, even if they lack a so called gene for absorbing dairy. China is also importing cows milk as well. The Chinese must love it! But I wonder how their bodies are coping as many lack the lactose gene ?Edited 27-Aug-22 00:31am

For sure, all a marketing ploy along with all the so-called false milk products on the market these days.

NZ has had A2 milk for years, so if people want to buy it that is there business. It's there money and it's considered better for you to drink A2 milk. I grew up drinking milk and now rarely drink it because it affects my throat badly. Cows milk is nice, but everyone can't drink it. Many kids have milk allergies. Lactose intolerance is very common in adults and many don't know they have it. Milk can be bad for many. Let's face it, it's meant for baby cows, and not humans. Do some research before you write BS, you dumb fool. You live in the past and are never up to date with recent studies. A2 milk might be a bit kinder on the body than the other milk types.Edited 27-Aug-22 00:21am

Anything to make money.

I think that anyone promoting non-dairy stuff as milk should be sued. Milk is cow stuff. Fake milk is FAKE!

YEP. All these people are so gullible not just with the variety of milk or so called milk (i.e. plant milk) but will all sorts of so called food that is better for you and is not good for you but which man evolved eating. An acre of land will produce a lot of green food whereas it will not keep a cow. Marketing therefore is all about eating the green food and telling us meat is bad for us or for the planet. Solution for the methane that most animals let loose is simply a small amount of sea weed which can be grown easily. There are other cheap solutions also. Why are these not used - because an acre of land is worth more with green growing on it and being harvested every few months or even weeks.Edited 27-Aug-22 16:48pm