“Consumption of milk per capita has gone down every year over the last 30 years,” says Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. “Actually, it’s gone down by more than 20 per cent since 2015.”
While bagged milk is often cited as a unique Canadianism, it’s actually not sold west of Ontario. Those who prefer it, however, say it’s more cost efficient and some even believe it tastes better.
Are these changing consumer habits mostly being driven by how insanely expensive and low quality milk products are becoming? Canadian cheese and butter are trash and cost an arm and a leg - especially when you get into goat and sheep cheeses that a lot of lactose intolerant west coasters prefer.
Is milk somehow not a milk product? I think my point stands for milk products in general - goat milk is insanely expensive in Canada and it’s not significantly more expensive to produce than cow’s milk.
Why are you getting down voted so much? You are absolutely right. Canadian milk products (including milk) are complete garbage. We can thank our milk cartels for that, plus the really stupid regulations put into place over concerns of germs that basically limits the amount of raw or non-homogenized milk on the market.
How come most of Europe can produce far superior tasting cheeses and also consume fresh milk from milk vending machines, but there’s an inane control on it in North America?
As a lactose intolerant west coaster I’m really confused if that’s setting people off. We’ve got a huge Asian population out here and lactose intolerance is much higher among them. Personally, while we’re not of Asian descent both me and my partner are lactose intolerant so finding reasonable dairy products that don’t give us diarrhea is a priority - and we’re not shy of making our own stovetop cheese if all we can get is milk.
Having had the cheese available in America, I have to say better grasses makes better cheese.
I refute your assessment of Canadian cheese, my good man, and I shall be available by the flagpole after recess. It’s a duel.
Oh we’re definitely better than America but we should be able to match up against Europe.
Have you ever tried Beacher’s cheese? You should try some good quality cheese before dismissing all American made cheese.
Isn’t milk kinda useless for humans after they stop being toddlers?
I’ve yet to see adults drinking milk naturally meant for humans(aka breast milk) the dairy industry really got us good in brain washing
No, cereal with yogurt is the norm where I live, if we decide to have cereal
Oh ya, totally useless. Humans don’t derive any nutrition from milk. It just teleports through their body.
This isn’t a Canadian specific thing. Its common in most of the world.
But the problem isnt milk, its animal milk. Soy and oat milk should be fine.
It’s funny we have no issues drinking milk from many animals, but people would be grossed out knowing it’s milk from a human breast, and wouldn’t drink it.
Edit: changed any to many
What I’m wondering is, we have made strides to synthetically make milk with the use of yeast to make the proteins. So theoretically, we could make any milk. Why are we making cows milk this way?
It’s funny we have no issues drinking milk from any animal
Bruh we definitely have issues drinking milk from other animals.
Have you ever seen anyone drink Dog Milk? Cat Milk? Possum Milk? Pangolin Milk? Motherfuckin… Platypus Milk? They all mammals.
Tastes better 🤣🤣🤣🤣 those micro plastics sure kick up the flavor a few notches!!
