i recently realized that most people dont have explosive diarrhea daily, and after 17 years of my life I thought, "maybe I'm lactose intolerant..." milk was my downfall
Let me introduce you to lactose free milk. It lasts longer, tastes the same, and you can enjoy milk again! Only thing is you can't use it to cook/bake, it doesn't come out the same. Im surprised it's not more popular since science says literally about 80% of the US population will become lactose intolerant to a certain degree by the time they are in their 20s
During this pandemic I realized my body had stopped processing milk the same as when I was younger. I get cramped in the stomach if I drink more that half a glass... Glad to see nut milks are getting more prevalent these last few years. I still have options and that's all I care about.
If farmers weren't incentivized to overproduce, production would decline until it actually fit the demand, and then farmers would be free to set whichever prices worked best.
Farms are producing more supply than there is demand for because they know the government will subsidize it. So basically taxpayers are paying farmers to produce more milk than is actually needed.
@@maidoll_fei I drive truck and have been picking up milk for the last 10 years. Farmers control how many cows they raise. They don't magically show up or decide when they want to have a calf by themselves.
yeah....I personally havent used milk products for years , I know people who have worked in the industry and its not only painful how these animals are treated but its disgusting aswell, dont have appetite for milk anymore , its also very bad for my skin and makes me break out...soo many reasons not to drink it , adult humans overall dont need milk
This video is a great example when government policy intends to help but in reality it hurts everyone. Of course no farmer is going to get out of milk production if the government guarantees pricing floors. There's no incentive to quit until your cost surpass the government price floor. So what we're going to get, probably, is lobbying for an increase in the price floor so the government can continue to inflate prices and horde cheese. This is 100% analogous to the student loan debt problem.
22 years in the business. Somehow the actual “farm gate” pay price (govt. floor plus buyer incentives minus trucking and marketing) always seems to be just below the average farm’s cost of production. This is what fuels consolidation and overproduction. The biggest dairies can get along with thin margins and bankers who can’t afford to lose them. The smaller farms run themselves into the ground trying to make any profit at all.
It is very hard to say if doing nothing or the opposite would not have also caused significant harm or issues. Plenty of nations do 0 subsidies and watch as their industries collapse from 1 natural disaster. Its more a issue of government structure and flexibility of planning, people lower on the bracket need to be able to make flexible decisions with the orders they are given, or else you end up with problems due to inability to react to change.
Whey is made out of milk protein and the "gym culture" is on the rise, so maybe tapping on that market could be a good way to minimize the problem, also, Whey can last for a lot longer.
@@Ron1n_Sim looking at their comment history, I think they are a troll account trying to get people to rag on vegans. Either Way, best not to feed the trolls
@@mixrable1212 Earthman, you must realize that the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for and run by mice. They're protrusions into our dimension of hyper-intelligent beings. I don't know this cheese of which you speak, but they were there on Earth as mice experimenting on you.
I have been trying to go vegan, and my dairy consumption has decreased drastically. In hindsight, it is one of the best decisions I've made in my life.
Kudos to your efforts, but dude I don't believe in Kerala, let alone in India the cows or any milch animals are tortured for milk as seen in our western counterparts.
That would also help the cows who go through hell to produce that milk. Impregnated unnaturally, its calfs kept away from the milk that was produced for them, calfs (males) sold to butchers as soon as they are born...uff. And the cows also develop medical conditions because of vaccinations and steroids. Milk is the cruelest form of nutrients that we humans are dependent on. At least a slaughtered animal doesn't have to go through such daily torture.
@@Chin-Shan Everything you listed also happens in regular meat production though. With the possible exception of insta-butchered calves, but I don't feel like a cow's lifespan matters.
That's why in Canada we have the market sharing quota. The production is determined by the government and the farmers share those production between them. We limits the importation of dairy products and the Canadian Dairy Commission fix the price of the milk each years. Because of that, we have saved the family farms, stabilise price for the producers and the consumer, and we don't have overproduction or over-industrialise farms (at least in the East of Canada).
If it works so well then why did Europe end the quota system? Also you do overproduce, but you guys send it to the US. I know a number of plants that were buying Canadian milk and making it into cheese.
@@mustang8206 Are you mad that some other country has done something more efficient than the states? I never thought American Republicans could be so in denial lol
Government helping farmers during cyclical bad times sounds reasonable to me(to keep US self-reliant on food production), but propping them up continually past a major change in consumer preferences makes less sense to me. So, are lobby groups over influencing the government to act against the societal-economic good here?
not even that, its like coal. their dying industry has released a shit ton of angry voters who dont like seeing their way of life disappearing, just to be manipulated by local politicians
We must address the serious question of this urgent dilemma facing Cows and Farmers, When will President Biden, Cut the Cheese, and break wind from this surplus ? The sooner the better, holding in all that cheese is surely bound to cause a funky big stink, especially if it's blue cheese, or turning green.
China would buy it. Powdered milk is one of New Zealand's biggest exports. China stopped buying their milk for only a few days in the early 2000s over some trade negotiation and NZ's economy dipped like 4 points, lol.
@@ashkitt7719 out west maybe..gonna be an every where war for everything..thats what they want..i dont understand how people are so blind and cant see what is going on.
The pandemic really cut my milk tastebuds. I swapped cereal for oatmeal or baconeggcheeses. Now milk makes me gassy and bloated. And if I have cereal I use 2% milk. I was raised with that scam ass food pyramid they gave us in schools. I cut meat and milk out a lot these days.
@6:31 "As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't even be 'milk' on the carton. There's zero dairy in it." Just wait until this guy hears about peanut butter.
Meat and dairy farmers are trying to own labels like 'milk' and 'cream' as if things like peanut butter, face cream, coconut cream, coconut milk, soy milk etc haven't been around for decades
We should all participate in a competition attempting to eat California reapers, and at the end gulp down a gallon of milk, will restore the demand and supply mismatch for once. As the gap closes reduce cattle head count. Lol I would eat a california reaper if it could help out the farmers. Oh how about mixing weed with california reaper, a must try rip recipe.
Because farmers are distributed in politically powerful states. They are a powerful constituency. It's the same reason we grow such ridiculous amounts of corn too.
The dairy lobby is oldest & strongest lobby group in the US. Lobby groups write laws and have legislators sponsor them - this is how it is a REQUIREMENT that schools MUST serve at least 2 kinds of milk in schools or they won't be reimbursed for meals. I ran an NSLP program & the requirements are online easily searchable. Until there are term limits & elimination of lobby groups, our government will continue to be ran by corporations & their own interests will be preserved. They want you to focus on the parties but the system is what needs overhauling for sustained change.
The prices where I live are $3 a gallon. Sadly since I live on a dairy farm where my dad works, we are going to have to move out soon because it's shutting down.
@@LiberatedAmon Dairy Farmers are not the stupid ones. They have zero control over the selling price of milk. The video pretty much covered the reasons of why the industry is flawed. Mostly government.
@@LiberatedAmon dairy farmers don't control the gallon price of milk at the store. Before you call the people feeding you stupid, take 30 seconds to Google government pricing controls on agriculture commodities
Not only do I have no issues digesting milk, as a kid, my mother literally told me to stop, I was drinking her out of house and home! I used to drink a gallon of milk a day! Today, I'll still buy either Swiss fudge cookies or the Entemens chocolate frosted donuts and eat them with a nice tall glass of milk. 68% of adults can't digest it? Holy shit, I had no idea. As a black man, I guess I'm like finding the yeti!
I used to drink close to a gallon a day and my mom said the same thing I had 7 siblings so we normally had more than a gallon on hand My dad Insisted I was a growing boy and should consume as much as I needed
The fact is, lactose intolerance is a way bigger problem that was ever previously known. Mammals are simply not designed to drink milk past infancy. Not to mention the environmental impacts of raising cattle.
Re: dumping milk due to surplus - such a waste. Why didn't they (whoever "they" is) convert that milk into more butter, cheese, condensed milk, evaporated milk and especially POWDERED MILK????
They went over this in the video. The sheer volume of it is so massive that they can't get rid of it fast enough. The dairy farmers for some reason aren't recognizing to STOP making some when the excess is already so huge.
@@setcheck67 The main reason is that they have to continue to milk the cows even when they don’t need that amount of milk. Stopping milking the cows could cause bruising, udder injury, sickness and possibly death (if you stop for some time).
A lot of the farmers sold milk to companies that produced restaurant products like creamer and such. When you loose your vendor it’s not so easy to sell milk. when you don’t know the right people at the right time.
@@joeyjoe7930 That is slightly true in the short term, but long term these dairy farmers know they don't need this glut of production to continue for years on end. They're choosing to keep producing it anyway, because of the guaranteed value.
When did milk consumption reduce? Lol outside America everyone still consumes milk. The same Americans that gulp gallons of soda everyday be whining milk is unhealthy 🤦🏻♂️.
Because usa has largest industry of plant based milk, and india has largest milk dairy from which it profits a lot, if usa wants to destroy india, say indian milk is bad and say american plant based milk is best, HUGE PROFIT for MALECHAS, And also have a voice over of white lady in a sensual manner so brown countries get encouraged even more
Product is product, especially when it's food. I'm sure there's production steps to turn into something people will want to buy and eat. But with all that surplus... I mean the reason I don't eat that much cheese, aside from health reasons, is because they're so expensive, even American slices which are basically 50% fake cheese. When it isn't on sale, Kraft sells 16 slices for $4.00.
Yeah you can thank the governments minimum price for that bullshit. Cheese would be extremely cheap if they didn't keep milk as a decently priced commodity.
Processed cheese is just regular cheese heated with emulsifiers. Unlike "real" cheese, the fats and proteins don't separate when melted. It can't be called "real" cheese because the living bacteria cultures have been killed off.
To be honest they should just focus on exporting the milk, in my country milk is expensive as fck , and only a couple companies produce it. Whenever I go to america, having a big jug of milk is heavenly
Exporting comes with a high cost. Storage, transportation and preservation of milk won't make much difference. Unless it's long shelf milk, which is factory made, not by farmers.
@@mike_404 as long as we're being pedantic, is it safe to assume you're a calf? Otherwise you shouldn't be drinking milk at all if you want to follow definitions
@@ttrestle Progressives are the last people you want to consult for economics and financial advice. It amounts to "in will work out somehow" AOC, Biden's cabinet, etc proved this
Idgaf about political parties...it's the lobby groups & term limits that need to change. Rotate all the clowns through but ensure the system they're in works for the people not large corporations.
Since I was little, I had been drinking milk for at least 25 years, not knowing that I was lactose intolerant. After quitting milk, I can breathe and sleep so much better.
@@Bryan-mi9pn It is good for the average person but not for people are are intolerant. This is like saying “People told me walking is good exercise but I have no legs, therefore walking is not good exercise.” It’s not good for YOU because of your unique physiological situation, that doesn’t mean it’s bad for everyone else or that there are no benefits. Milk is incredibly healthy and has save millions of lives with the invention of milk based formula for infants. I hate to admit it myself, but the government is right, at least on average, on this one.
Well, I drank milk until I was 30 and realized I’m lactose intolerant. And my daughter drank it until she was 5, until we realized she was lactose intolerant. My mom drank it till she was 60 and realized it was dairy causing all her issues. My brother is lactose intolerant too, but never would give up milk. Cow Milk isn’t the be all end all. Almond milk is compatible with our bodies!!
What shocks me is when you have over supply of a raw product to the point where farmers are throwing it away and no one is developing new products that use Milk. Its like Steel being $0.01 a ton and the industry declining like???
Subsidies are not socialism. Forfeit your high school diploma (if you even have one). The free market would have collapsed long ago if it hadn't been for the government's actions. You're a victim of your own information bubble.
It's a shame really, we call cows out mother, yet we support milk industry, the most crucial and exploitative industry of all, we force impregnate the poor cows every 10 months, we take their milk , we kill thier male calves and exploits the female ones, we beat them to death, we skin them alive , when kill them and sell thir meat and body parts for money.... If anything we should be ashamed of ourselves.
The way we do things, with profit as the main focus and not societal welbeing.. seems to be today's biggest issue. We have such abundance.... instead small farmers are losing everything... Does not seem right.
Lol there has to be a motive for people to work. Usually when intellectuals step in to try and run a business like you described, they end up massively failing. "societal wellbeing" is an opinion after all.
@@acommentator69 Well, I personally volunteer a lot.... I feel happier serving what feels like a societal need over focusing on profit. After 25 years of serving a company that barely regards their employee's as anything but a number... After seeing people work themselves to literal death.. I'd rather give the kids a world they deserve then be so caught up about a man made fiction. Reality is, those with amazing skills and ideas are losing the game. How do we fix that? Its not the day we run out of quality produced food, we should begin asking that.
@@TherealSakuraKei What a joke. No one will accomplish anything with no incentive and those who want to will quickly get burned out working for nothing while watching 80% of the population sit on their ass. It will get old real quick. You are not entitled to jack shit.
@@acommentator69 Arguing with people on the internet isin't a job volunteer for though. You are also simultaneously in part correct. The worlds full of people. For some the insentive isin't money, its doing what is in moral alignment with their being. For many many others, its about what they can get for themselves.
It’s probably so naive of me to say and due to lacking a full understanding of how the supply chain works but why can’t they just make less….stop raising so much livestock until it levels out. This seems like way more work to manage all this surplus’s than to just work less and produce less
The problem is generally that the govt doesn't take sufficient measures to help the farmers move to something else. And farmers continue producing same stuff because it sells(to the govt). India has similar issues with excess rice and wheat production. The govt keeps buying it, they have to because otherwise farmers will go in debt. And farmers keep producing same stuff because that is what sells easily. Govt need to balance out what they buy, and help producers shift to those needs accordingly.
You have perfectly described how a communist/socialist country work! The less they produce, the less money they can potentially make. Imagine if the local restaurant just stops cooking because there is no customer. May as well close up shop right?
@@weeksweeks9552 It seems pretty communistic to me when your government buying surplus diaries for the taxpayers money. Keep on producing stuff nobody wants, the government pays!
I had been able to eat dairy products in Spain no problem until I lived for a year in the US, a few months in I just could eat out nor eat anything premade since almost everything has cheese or cream. And I'm not the only person who became dairy intolerant after being in the US.
People are complicated things. And developing allergies after moving to a new area is a thing. Moving exposes you to a whole new set of things you can develop an allergy to over time. It happens to Americans moving within the country as well. I'm positive it works that way everywhere.
@@Magnulus76 true, i grew up in country that drink tea more than milk, and never lactose intolerance. Moved to US and became lactose intolerant, but i don't care i love American milk, so I keep drink the shit out of it. Since we do produce fresh milk commonly back home, we drink condensed or powdered milks there. I do not like that, and love the fresh milk in The States
People learned that you were injecting cows with antibiotics, that's why so many bacterias and virus strains have adapted and doesn't work. In Europe Doctors can't use antibiotics unless it's extreme emergency.
Well, milk has also been getting worse and worse over the past 50 years. I used to love milk, not anymore. If it's high quality organic milk, it's _usually_ decent, but sometimes not even then.
Cow milk doesn't taste as good as oat milk & I'm saying that after I've had delicious cream top milk. Oat milk also doesn't add to our unfortunate carbon emission crisis
Have to get organic grass fed but it's like $5 a gallon. I buy it because I like to buy good food but also have the $$$ to. Unfortunately not everyone has that ability.
@@realityhittingme True. That's still cheaper per gallon than oat milk though, which someone suggested as a substitution in the comments. I also like spending money on food, I don't spend it on much else, actually.
this reminds me of my moms side of the family, they were small time dairy farmers for generations, about 10 years ago though my uncle retired and now no one in my family is a farmer.
@@billbillerton6122 It's not too bad, I'm still in touch with my moms side of the families culture (Germanic American) so I figure that's more important than continuing to milk cows
I've been drinking almond milk for over a decade now and honestly it just tastes way better to me, I can't go back to cow milk It really depends on the brand of almond milk though, because each brand tastes completely different
I have had milk straight from the cow, she lived in the barn under the house, at my aunty's farm in Spain. Commercial milk pales in comparison to fresh milk. Mum made us kids drink a pint of milk each day to build strong bones. That was in the late 60s early 70s when milk still tasted like milk.
I'm lucky enough that there's a big local dairy near the city I live in in America that only pasteurizes the milk and does still grass graze cattle. They have Ice cream shops that churn fresh soft serve on site and also sell the milk at the ice cream shops. The difference between it and the ultrapastrized and homogenized grocery store milk is like night and day. It's no wonder people don't want to drink that processed trash. People also don't want processed cheese anymore, which is why the American stockpile is just sitting there. It's worth paying a little more for far better product.
I had the privillege to taste fresh milk that didn't originate from supermarkets as well. It spoiled faster, yes, but it was so good, especially with the berries we used to gather!
@@raceris7309 raw milk does not spoil, it just changes form to cheese curds and whey / yogurt / soured milk. Just means the bacteria pre digests the milk so it is even easier to digest.
Speaking as an exdairy farmer the faster the government gets out of the farmers business the better! I had a farm and milked 60 to 80 head in the 80’s and 90’s.
"the faster the government gets out of the farmers business" if milk prices were allowed to fluctuate to its market equilibrium it wound simply accelerate the number of farmers being driven out of business by big farming corporations.
@@turbulentmk then that's how it's supposed to be. If you can't compete in the market your business is not efficient enough and therefore should not continue to operate.
@@ChristianF15cher no respect for people who juice. I will have more respect for someone with 1/2 the muscle mass of Arnold but who didn't use steroids to get there.
Great video, I did a paper on this, or at least what can be defined as "milk". There's a gray area to what can be labeled "milk", but this issue has more to do with the decreasing demand of dairy milk (lobbyists want to make it a semantics issue) than non-dairy milk wanting to wipe dairy milk from the market.
non-dairy milk does not kill animals and slaughter their newborn male calves. Many cows sent to slaughter are carrying a fetus that spills out when they are sliced in two. It is not a kind industry at all, it is cruel and selfish. I am proud to drink almond and soymilk instead. As a male, why would you drink (or eat) anything with huge amounts of estrogens in it?.
In our country (sri lanka) there's no day without milk 😢 if American dairy consumption is low you'll can export to other country's(I'm not sure whether this is a good idea because I'm still 12 yrs old )
it possible to export it to other countries but exporting it take times Milk became sour very fast and so they need a faster way to export it like airport but it is still impossible to export it to country which are too far
When the MMB in England and Wales was removed be the government dairy farmers had a once in a lifetime chance to really get the right price for their milk by working co-operatively. Milk Marque was successful to begin with and farmers achieved 26.6 ppl ( from memory), Guess what? Farmers are both greedy and bad business people. A chap from Northern Foods single handed lay ruined the dream for his fellow farmers by guaranteeing 1 ppl more than MMQ if they joined the Northern milk partnership. His fellow loons did and weakened the Milk Marque price but yes they got a penny more. I once asked a farmer in Oswestry if he’d be happy getting a penny more than 12 ppl. He said he would the daft pillock. The HUGE opportunity for dairy farmers in England and Wales was wrecked by farmers greed and stupidity. Last time I looked the milk price was still around 26 ppl 25 years later. The only saving grace is that dairy farmers are so stupid they still don’t see what damage they caused themselves. Richard Smith was the man who ruined the whole dairy industry for farmers by being as thick as two short planks.
@@scorpioteez233 plenty of cereal doesn't have much sugar. Most cereal I buy has 10g of sugar per cup or less. less than 20g sugar per day is perfectly healthy
@@poochyenarulez do they have other nutrition tho, and what about compared to foods like eggs? Ofc busy mornings are a thing and cereal isn’t a cardinal sin, but less sugar definitely better and cereal is such an easy way to consume it…
The entire video they talk only about the levels of consumption and production in the USA, but in the end they mention the percentage of lactose intolerants around the world(which as far as I know isn't the same as in the USA), as something that should affect the market...
I doubt we’ll see milk fall off the shelf’s for quite a while but it kinda sucks bc I actually still drink milk regularly, I’ve been like that since I was basically born till now tbh lmao
I couldn’t stop thinking about how Americans substituted milk for soda and cheese being on the rise just for its use with junk food. I know it kinda is a stereotype but lmao.
Actually, the processed cheese products you are thinking of are not popular and are basically desperation food. We do produce and consume a lot of 'real' cheeses in America. The problem with drinking milk is that the big factory farm corporations ultrapastrize and homogenize milk to make it have a longer shelf life, to increase profits, but it makes the milk taste weird. I drink milk all the time because there's a local creamery that sells superior milk.
@@namehere4954 Those who drink milk passionately, already produce enough. Countries like India, are the biggest consumer and Producer of milk. They don't need American Companies to supply milk here.
@@thebestevertherewas yes, that's what I've said. Not only is the milk not wanted but it has adverse effects on local markets - the US did this to Haiti with rice and it destroyed Haitian rice market & created more poverty.
Here's bsn idea. How abut dairy fsrmers start making cream cheese. NYC is facing a shortage of the stuff. what else are we supposed to smear on our bagels?
Instead of subsidized factory farming, pivot to a pasture raised livestock Model. Fewer cows on more land where they can eat grass and get sunshine. Adopt a regenerative grazing model. This is what people want. Healthy milk from healthy cows. End the raw milk ban. The homogeneous pasteurized milk lacks enzymes needed to digest milk. Raw milk has everything
Unfortunately there are those who want to capitilise everything as far as possible. Should really make laws that kimit how big these companies are allowed to get.
I didn't know that federal government is buying dairy products from farmers. Government is paying farmers for more and more Methane emission. How can they meet their climate target?
I'm surprised that North American milk consumption is declining. It's my favourite stuff to drink. I usually consume about a litre or a quart per day. My friends know how much I love milk & often joke about chipping in & buying me a cow for the backyard! I feel really sorry for anyone who's lactose intolerant. What a tragedy!
All that wasted milk. How many people could have been fed on producta made with that milk? The Western civilization cannot seem to live without wasting reaources in excess
@@baileyjerman5573 I'm not telling anyone to do anything. The market is speaking for itself and we should not have to waste our tax money on products that are just being tossed anyway. Do you always get this triggered???
For everyone here commenting on subsidies, as a dairy farmer, I personally think they should all go away. However also know that the USDA set price floor and the ass backwards 1930’s pricing formula that we are forced to abide by is a greater problem. We operate in nothing resembling a free market in terms of pricing, marketing and exporting. The whole mess needs to be scrapped but politicians like cheap food policy. When I was running my own farm, the current US secretary of agriculture was pulling in $1,000,000 salary (plus kickbacks I assume) as head of marketing agency Dairy Management Inc. which we farmers are forced to contribute a portion of our income to. Meanwhile we were paid 10-20% below cost of production.
I can believe everything you are saying and agree with. It's honestly a no win situation for the farmer. Mix that in with labor cost etc, it's hard to run your farm.
its either in your blood or it isn't. I don't mind working 7 days a week for 12 months and not making a dollar. The thing that sends shivers down me spine is waking up to bellowing cows and not being able to feed them. Day after day, really grinds you down!
What do you do with the male calves?. How do your cows get pregnant, with your arm shoved up their behind?. No offense but the dairy industry is not kind to cow families, moms, or calves. No animal should be kept constantly pregnant, and the milk is meant for their calves, not humans. Many cows sent to slaughter are carrying a fetus; that is disgusting and needs to be known. Make almond milk instead like Elmhurst.
Idk i'm still obsessed with milk, nearly as much as when I was a kid. Though nowadays I don't take a massive glass and fill it to the brim with milk, but i do drink lots of it for tea and for cereal. I love milk, don't ask me why. Being a lowlander I am much less likely to be lactose intolerant cuz we drink and eat so much dairy here (though my mom became intolerant a few years back). But I can see why people drink it less and especially because its not as healthy as we were once taught and its also not a liquid our body is really built to handle properly.
How can you be obsessed with something that literally contains blood, pus and fecal matter as well as a plethora of hormones and meds? Then look at the often atrocious conditions these animals are kept in and how they suffer like having their calfs taken away and sold for slaughter or being imprisoned for the mere fact of having been born a cow. For me giving up dairy was a no brainer because it actually deeply disgusts me.
@@NeoAutodroid Hey that's not all Milk farms you know, atleast where I live there are many good brands of Milk from free roaming cows you can find in pretty much any supermarket
Govt should find solution like selling milk in minimum price to countries having malnutrition problem, which will be way better than simply dumping them
I can't stand milk, unless I'm eating Oreos. 😊 I chit myself whenever I drink milk or ingest dairy products. I've been trying to cut out dairy products from my diet for the last few years. Great life improvements.
Not a single word about the fact that humans seems to be OK with using sentient beings like cows as a product. I too was desensitized to this for a long time. Now I know what it takes to get milk from a mother cow, how much pain and torture is involved... It's really not something I can be ambiguous about anymore. I'm using far less, choosing oat alternatives for milk. I do eat yoghurt still, this seems hard to replace.
I never liked drinking plain milk. After I became lactose intolerant I discovered so many non-dairy alternatives, I use oat milk for my lattes and almond milk for cereal and smoothies. And non-dairy milk smells better and lasts longer too.
The fall of milk is a sign that the world needs less cows. Nobody talked about climate change, and farmers are concerned about their finances and not about the ecological impact of their production. Government instead of trying to “help” a dying polluting industry, should focus its efforts in helping farmers to transition to a more sustainable and growing economic activity.
Lucky to have a small dairy operation neighboring my farm that I sell my hay to. So the grass that I grow in my hayfields eventually becomes the milk that I get to drink which is pretty cool. Buy local if you can and support the farmers. Milk gang for life
Nope. I don't support people who exploit animals! Most of the population lives in towns, buying local is just another feel good lie. Nope, I am vegan for all the right reasons!
So basically: taxpayers are paying to throw out food. Seems logical.
Capitalism at finest
Yay capitalism
@@Jay-jb2vr socialism not capitalism, derp
Yeah it's called paying welfare for people that are capable of working
@@nopandakit8051 us passed a law that destroyed agriculture now same type of laws in india definitely smell capitalism 😂😂
i recently realized that most people dont have explosive diarrhea daily, and after 17 years of my life I thought, "maybe I'm lactose intolerant..." milk was my downfall
HELP?
You had explosive diarrhea daily and you didn’t think that was abnormal
I don’t think the milk was the problem..
Let me introduce you to lactose free milk. It lasts longer, tastes the same, and you can enjoy milk again! Only thing is you can't use it to cook/bake, it doesn't come out the same. Im surprised it's not more popular since science says literally about 80% of the US population will become lactose intolerant to a certain degree by the time they are in their 20s
During this pandemic I realized my body had stopped processing milk the same as when I was younger. I get cramped in the stomach if I drink more that half a glass... Glad to see nut milks are getting more prevalent these last few years. I still have options and that's all I care about.
life is much different when you find out that MILK HAS A RISE AND FALL
So true
Not in Punjab
@@Mayank_Maximum so does smelling bad I bet. You Paj333t
@Ramesh Ranjan are you one of the "untouchable" Indians?
@Ramesh Ranjan Iss chutiye ko miss krao. Inn logon k saath lagne ka koi faida nahi.
If farmers weren't incentivized to overproduce, production would decline until it actually fit the demand, and then farmers would be free to set whichever prices worked best.
doesent work like that cause farmers already have cows and i imagine not all of them can swap
@@Kiba114 A decline in production means smaller herds, and probably some farmers leaving the business, not just switching to goats or something.
Only the larger farms get subsidies. Smaller farms don’t get a lot from government. Support your smaller and local farms.
Its good that dairy industry is on a fall. Its one of the most cruel industries towards animals
@@Ammeo how?
Farms are producing more supply than there is demand for because they know the government will subsidize it. So basically taxpayers are paying farmers to produce more milk than is actually needed.
Farms can''t magically stop making milk. Those cow have to keep milking regularly.
Doubt it dude
@@maidoll_fei I drive truck and have been picking up milk for the last 10 years. Farmers control how many cows they raise. They don't magically show up or decide when they want to have a calf by themselves.
Like bankers, making unprofitable loans knowing that the taxpayer will bail them out when the market crashes! :) A truly American way of economy.
@@maidoll_fei They have to re-impregnate cows yearly for optimal production, how about don't do that?
Damn they cancelled milk
Milk must have posted some offensive tweets in 2011
@@Gulag00 lol
Go vegan
@@insectbite1714 s
And I don't even like foie gras
Finally we don't have to worry about Dad's going to get milk
Underated comment lol 😂 😂
Lol now they will say dad went to get soy milk and never came back
@@ThatSocratesguy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
epic😂
Now we only have to worry about him going for a pack of cigarettes
when you get the behind scene of Dairy industry and feel an ache in your heart then you are a human ❤
yeah....I personally havent used milk products for years , I know people who have worked in the industry and its not only painful how these animals are treated but its disgusting aswell, dont have appetite for milk anymore , its also very bad for my skin and makes me break out...soo many reasons not to drink it , adult humans overall dont need milk
This video is a great example when government policy intends to help but in reality it hurts everyone. Of course no farmer is going to get out of milk production if the government guarantees pricing floors. There's no incentive to quit until your cost surpass the government price floor. So what we're going to get, probably, is lobbying for an increase in the price floor so the government can continue to inflate prices and horde cheese. This is 100% analogous to the student loan debt problem.
22 years in the business. Somehow the actual “farm gate” pay price (govt. floor plus buyer incentives minus trucking and marketing) always seems to be just below the average farm’s cost of production. This is what fuels consolidation and overproduction. The biggest dairies can get along with thin margins and bankers who can’t afford to lose them. The smaller farms run themselves into the ground trying to make any profit at all.
It is very hard to say if doing nothing or the opposite would not have also caused significant harm or issues. Plenty of nations do 0 subsidies and watch as their industries collapse from 1 natural disaster. Its more a issue of government structure and flexibility of planning, people lower on the bracket need to be able to make flexible decisions with the orders they are given, or else you end up with problems due to inability to react to change.
Bruh what?
There's always some lame right wing dunce with a mindless slogan. Vegetable.
@ muh bureaucracy knows best
There seems to be a lot of blaming the consumers for changing their tastes rather than adapting to those changing tastes
what they gonna do? change the milk taste? 😐
@@nonec384
Mix it with mango juice? at least I love that
@@اااااا-ح4ح bruh you cant mix mango with milk its tabu where i live 😐
@@nonec384 mixing milk with certain citrusy fruits especially Oranges can cause multiple minor to major digestive problems.
@@riardomilos8014 i never mixed mango with milk cuz of the tabu and i dont think mangos are citric , but the tabus say your just gonna die
“Got Milk” slogans unlocked a memory of my childhood
GOT PUS?
Milk does!
@@XVeganDaveGodFreeX here comes the vegan
@@XVeganDaveGodFreeX cope
@@turbo11 dog tell him to eat grass
Horny memory?
Whey is made out of milk protein and the "gym culture" is on the rise, so maybe tapping on that market could be a good way to minimize the problem, also, Whey can last for a lot longer.
Yeah def, i'd like to see more whey products
*When they start dumping milk*
Me: "dude, ain't your mama told you not to wasting food?!!"
Americans waste a third of their food, while people in Africa starve.
*《《GO VEGAN!!!》》*
@@insectbite1714 who gives a shit? This literally has no connection whatsoever with wasting food. People would still waste food even when vegan
@@Ron1n_Sim looking at their comment history, I think they are a troll account trying to get people to rag on vegans. Either Way, best not to feed the trolls
Capitalism is the most efficient way of allocating resources/s
1:55 😂 why did he hit the can with a pick axe? You just had to pour out the milk and then you could reuse the can
for real 🤣 probably was extra mad about something else other than milk prices
He thought it was prohibition beer lol
Being extra got the point across back then too
Or they can steal the milk and give it to the calfs.
Haha classic Hillbilly move 😂
The U.S government has a cheese stash the same size as three 27 story buildings side by side. Who knew?
Shhh Jerry doesn't know.
This is why they want us to pay more taxes. so they can buy more cheese. The government is just a bunch of field mice in human skin suits.
@@mixrable1212 Earthman, you must realize that the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for and run by mice. They're protrusions into our dimension of hyper-intelligent beings. I don't know this cheese of which you speak, but they were there on Earth as mice experimenting on you.
@@VoluptuousMeatball Hitchhiker's Guide reference or absolutely crazy? Hard to tell these days..
@@roymakescomics Don't panic
I have been trying to go vegan, and my dairy consumption has decreased drastically. In hindsight, it is one of the best decisions I've made in my life.
I am proud of you! Keep it up😊😊😊
You can do ittt!!!! ✨✨✨
Kudos to your efforts, but dude I don't believe in Kerala, let alone in India the cows or any milch animals are tortured for milk as seen in our western counterparts.
Wait a few months when your body suffer without animal proteíns
@@txavielhumano6541 nah, they have turned into vegan npcs. Don't even bother talking sense to them.
There is one big problem: more production and less buyers. Farmers must think in this fact and reduce the production
That would also help the cows who go through hell to produce that milk. Impregnated unnaturally, its calfs kept away from the milk that was produced for them, calfs (males) sold to butchers as soon as they are born...uff. And the cows also develop medical conditions because of vaccinations and steroids.
Milk is the cruelest form of nutrients that we humans are dependent on. At least a slaughtered animal doesn't have to go through such daily torture.
@@Chin-Shan Everything you listed also happens in regular meat production though. With the possible exception of insta-butchered calves, but I don't feel like a cow's lifespan matters.
Rigidity. It just becomes a self destructive attrition market
Well why would they as long as the government is there to keep buying up surplus past the point it makes any sense
They’d rather leach off the American taxpayers. They don’t consider the assistance they receive food stamps but it basically is.
That's why in Canada we have the market sharing quota. The production is determined by the government and the farmers share those production between them. We limits the importation of dairy products and the Canadian Dairy Commission fix the price of the milk each years. Because of that, we have saved the family farms, stabilise price for the producers and the consumer, and we don't have overproduction or over-industrialise farms (at least in the East of Canada).
This doesn't concern you. Go back to Canadian UA-cam
Quotas suck! Only the big operators remain because they buy up the small quotas & tack them together squeezing small farms out.
Those quotas help the bigger farms only and fairy is expensive in Canada and it's turned into powdered form
If it works so well then why did Europe end the quota system? Also you do overproduce, but you guys send it to the US. I know a number of plants that were buying Canadian milk and making it into cheese.
@@mustang8206
Are you mad that some other country has done something more efficient than the states? I never thought American Republicans could be so in denial lol
Government helping farmers during cyclical bad times sounds reasonable to me(to keep US self-reliant on food production), but propping them up continually past a major change in consumer preferences makes less sense to me. So, are lobby groups over influencing the government to act against the societal-economic good here?
not even that, its like coal. their dying industry has released a shit ton of angry voters who dont like seeing their way of life disappearing, just to be manipulated by local politicians
@@ethan20559 Yea those damn coal miner's fueling american power grids, they're so stupid!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Remember that, it's a golden rule.
@@petercarioscia9189 advocating for a re-expansion of the coal industry to its "glory days" is pretty stupid ngl :)
It's the kind of socialism right wing republicans LOVE
We must address the serious question of this urgent dilemma facing Cows and Farmers, When will President Biden, Cut the Cheese, and break wind from this surplus ? The sooner the better, holding in all that cheese is surely bound to cause a funky big stink, especially if it's blue cheese, or turning green.
Was turning it into condensed or freeze dried,powdered for the disaster preper market not a viable option?
Preper market is not that huge to significantly impact this
@@thunderb00m ya 3 BILLION pounds of milk is insane
I'd buy it
Cant get powdwred milk anywhere
China would buy it. Powdered milk is one of New Zealand's biggest exports. China stopped buying their milk for only a few days in the early 2000s over some trade negotiation and NZ's economy dipped like 4 points, lol.
Up next on Business Insider: THE RISE AND FALL OF WATER
Later: the rise and fall of humanity
You joke it's coming along with everything..All prices are about to go up
Hahahaha
Y'all joke but the water wars are coming.
@@ashkitt7719 out west maybe..gonna be an every where war for everything..thats what they want..i dont understand how people are so blind and cant see what is going on.
The pandemic really cut my milk tastebuds. I swapped cereal for oatmeal or baconeggcheeses. Now milk makes me gassy and bloated. And if I have cereal I use 2% milk. I was raised with that scam ass food pyramid they gave us in schools. I cut meat and milk out a lot these days.
Same!! That's how I became vegan 😃
Cool but did we ask
@@kewlman5417 Touch grass.
@@kewlman5417 bozo
@@kewlman5417 you do know this is a comment section
the problem was not the low sales it was the lack of adaptivity and innovation
they could make thousands of different products using milk
@6:31
"As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't even be 'milk' on the carton. There's zero dairy in it."
Just wait until this guy hears about peanut butter.
Wait until he finds out hot dogs don’t have any dog meat in them either 😕
What brands of peanut butter are you talking about?
Behave Horatio
This is actually the reasoning with which the milk lobbies enforced that milk alternatives are not allowed to be called milk in Europe
@@fitchmultz He means it is not really butter, it is plant based like soy milk or whatever.
Meat and dairy farmers are trying to own labels like 'milk' and 'cream' as if things like peanut butter, face cream, coconut cream, coconut milk, soy milk etc haven't been around for decades
We should all participate in a competition attempting to eat California reapers, and at the end gulp down a gallon of milk, will restore the demand and supply mismatch for once. As the gap closes reduce cattle head count. Lol I would eat a california reaper if it could help out the farmers.
Oh how about mixing weed with california reaper, a must try rip recipe.
Why does the government keep failing industries like this afloat?
The government wouldn't do that unless it benefits them somehow.
Because farmers are distributed in politically powerful states. They are a powerful constituency.
It's the same reason we grow such ridiculous amounts of corn too.
The dairy lobby is oldest & strongest lobby group in the US. Lobby groups write laws and have legislators sponsor them - this is how it is a REQUIREMENT that schools MUST serve at least 2 kinds of milk in schools or they won't be reimbursed for meals. I ran an NSLP program & the requirements are online easily searchable.
Until there are term limits & elimination of lobby groups, our government will continue to be ran by corporations & their own interests will be preserved. They want you to focus on the parties but the system is what needs overhauling for sustained change.
socialism
Because if the senate which gives a lot of power to dairy producers
I would drink milk if it wasn’t $5 per gallon. But I guess they rather dump it than sell it for $3. I only use it for cereal now.
The prices where I live are $3 a gallon. Sadly since I live on a dairy farm where my dad works, we are going to have to move out soon because it's shutting down.
@@multifandom4092 Sad😔
In Milwaukee and Chicago I buy it for $2 per gallon for years. some places sell same for $3.
@@LiberatedAmon Dairy Farmers are not the stupid ones. They have zero control over the selling price of milk. The video pretty much covered the reasons of why the industry is flawed. Mostly government.
@@LiberatedAmon dairy farmers don't control the gallon price of milk at the store. Before you call the people feeding you stupid, take 30 seconds to Google government pricing controls on agriculture commodities
Not only do I have no issues digesting milk, as a kid, my mother literally told me to stop, I was drinking her out of house and home! I used to drink a gallon of milk a day! Today, I'll still buy either Swiss fudge cookies or the Entemens chocolate frosted donuts and eat them with a nice tall glass of milk. 68% of adults can't digest it? Holy shit, I had no idea. As a black man, I guess I'm like finding the yeti!
Your comment made my morning. God bless you. You're hilarious
I used to drink close to a gallon a day and my mom said the same thing
I had 7 siblings so we normally had more than a gallon on hand
My dad Insisted I was a growing boy and should consume as much as I needed
Same lol
I don't understand why you said you're black. Could you please explain? (I'm not American)
@@BrunoNeureiter Because Yeti’s are white
The fact is, lactose intolerance is a way bigger problem that was ever previously known. Mammals are simply not designed to drink milk past infancy. Not to mention the environmental impacts of raising cattle.
6:34 What a sook. People have been calling plant-derived liquids "milk" for over a thousand years. The product or the name isn't anything new.
Yeah I thought the same…that dude is a boner huh.
Dude probably puts his thing in the milking tube. IT'S NOT MILK HONEY.
100% right🧡
@@Amocles Drink Human breast milk, wouldn't you love seeing women tied up to machines right after giving birth so you can Drink your milk.
@@cyncin1163 mmm kinky
I had no idea milk consumption was declining, but that's probably because I drink like 2 gallons of milk a week, more or less
U must be American I drink that in a day
Damn bro, chill
Our house goes through a 4L jug every day or two 😭
my household goes thru 1 gallon per day
I'm lactose intolerant, but I can't help myself. I drink milk from time to time.
Re: dumping milk due to surplus - such a waste. Why didn't they (whoever "they" is) convert that milk into more butter, cheese, condensed milk, evaporated milk and especially POWDERED MILK????
They went over this in the video. The sheer volume of it is so massive that they can't get rid of it fast enough. The dairy farmers for some reason aren't recognizing to STOP making some when the excess is already so huge.
@@setcheck67 The main reason is that they have to continue to milk the cows even when they don’t need that amount of milk. Stopping milking the cows could cause bruising, udder injury, sickness and possibly death (if you stop for some time).
A lot of the farmers sold milk to companies that produced restaurant products like creamer and such. When you loose your vendor it’s not so easy to sell milk. when you don’t know the right people at the right time.
@@joeyjoe7930 That is slightly true in the short term, but long term these dairy farmers know they don't need this glut of production to continue for years on end. They're choosing to keep producing it anyway, because of the guaranteed value.
@@misterniceguy67 Calling the farmers who feed you lazy is disingenuous at best and ignorant at worst. Show some respect.
When did milk consumption reduce? Lol outside America everyone still consumes milk. The same Americans that gulp gallons of soda everyday be whining milk is unhealthy 🤦🏻♂️.
Because usa has largest industry of plant based milk, and india has largest milk dairy from which it profits a lot, if usa wants to destroy india, say indian milk is bad and say american plant based milk is best, HUGE PROFIT for MALECHAS,
And also have a voice over of white lady in a sensual manner so brown countries get encouraged even more
Product is product, especially when it's food. I'm sure there's production steps to turn into something people will want to buy and eat. But with all that surplus... I mean the reason I don't eat that much cheese, aside from health reasons, is because they're so expensive, even American slices which are basically 50% fake cheese. When it isn't on sale, Kraft sells 16 slices for $4.00.
Yeah you can thank the governments minimum price for that bullshit. Cheese would be extremely cheap if they didn't keep milk as a decently priced commodity.
@@setcheck67 And I bet someone who has ties to Kraft made the laws that way
Processed cheese is just regular cheese heated with emulsifiers. Unlike "real" cheese, the fats and proteins don't separate when melted. It can't be called "real" cheese because the living bacteria cultures have been killed off.
@@LiberatedAmon they need better laws
Along as the US has such a corrupt system for government and the Wall Street system the American people will suffer 😢
To be honest they should just focus on exporting the milk, in my country milk is expensive as fck , and only a couple companies produce it. Whenever I go to america, having a big jug of milk is heavenly
Exporting comes with a high cost. Storage, transportation and preservation of milk won't make much difference.
Unless it's long shelf milk, which is factory made, not by farmers.
which country are you from?
which country are u from
@@verdrehteseele8525 Jamaica
@@meghowalmahfooz1105 Jamaica
“As far as I’m concerned there shouldn’t even be the word milk in it. There isn’t even dairy in it.” Bro is mad 😂
He ain’t wrong tho 🤔
@@butterball99 except milk has been used describe the juice from certain plants products for centuries. Almond milk since 12th century at least.
@@mike_404 yes but the word “milk” has been used to refer to imitations and substitutes for literally over 500 years.
@@mike_404 as long as we're being pedantic, is it safe to assume you're a calf? Otherwise you shouldn't be drinking milk at all if you want to follow definitions
Almonds culturally appropriating the word milk.
I remember in south Korea primary schools had milk as compulsory daily thing. We used to sneak nesquik sachets. Ah the memories
If only the government would learn basic economics.
Vote in progressives then
Yea remember they were so lost that John Pierpont Morgan had to help them out of a financial crisis smh and they still didn't learn.
You need to learn about big business and lobbyists.
@@ttrestle Progressives are the last people you want to consult for economics and financial advice. It amounts to "in will work out somehow"
AOC, Biden's cabinet, etc proved this
Idgaf about political parties...it's the lobby groups & term limits that need to change. Rotate all the clowns through but ensure the system they're in works for the people not large corporations.
Since I was little, I had been drinking milk for at least 25 years, not knowing that I was lactose intolerant. After quitting milk, I can breathe and sleep so much better.
my acne go away so much faster and my skin heals alot better. I still use dairy once in awhile but milk is meh.
Obviously this will happen, if u are lactose intolerant
@@saikatbanik9359 it wasn't so obvious when your parents, your school, and your government tell you that milk is good for you.
The funniest thing about this article is how many of us were adults before we realise milk was the problem
@@Bryan-mi9pn It is good for the average person but not for people are are intolerant. This is like saying “People told me walking is good exercise but I have no legs, therefore walking is not good exercise.” It’s not good for YOU because of your unique physiological situation, that doesn’t mean it’s bad for everyone else or that there are no benefits. Milk is incredibly healthy and has save millions of lives with the invention of milk based formula for infants.
I hate to admit it myself, but the government is right, at least on average, on this one.
Well, I drank milk until I was 30 and realized I’m lactose intolerant. And my daughter drank it until she was 5, until we realized she was lactose intolerant. My mom drank it till she was 60 and realized it was dairy causing all her issues. My brother is lactose intolerant too, but never would give up milk.
Cow Milk isn’t the be all end all. Almond milk is compatible with our bodies!!
Almond milk isn't milk, isn't dairy. Can be a substitute but I hate the tag milk on almond water.
Almond water you mean and I can't have that I'm allergic
almond juice
I dislike almond water, or as my brother say nut juice.
If ur lactose intolerant obviously u will not like diary milk. And almond milk is not milk. It's marketed as milk
What shocks me is when you have over supply of a raw product to the point where farmers are throwing it away and no one is developing new products that use Milk. Its like Steel being $0.01 a ton and the industry declining like???
People have no idea how socialist our government is when it comes to propping up big businesses.
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor. Always has been, always will be. Kinda funny too
Subsidies are not socialism. Forfeit your high school diploma (if you even have one). The free market would have collapsed long ago if it hadn't been for the government's actions. You're a victim of your own information bubble.
So then you shouldn’t have a problem with the govt subsidising American citizen’s livelihoods by providing free healthcare.
@@basechung Subsidies are...
Oh, i cannot say it without... Ewww
*SOCDE...* _vomits_
Keep it down before they call you a commie
As an Indian i witness rise and fall of milk from Milk Pan to glass on a daily basis. 😢
You have become weak, here have another glass of milk
What? "From milk pan to glass"?
@Vineet Jobava Real ID se aao, Mumma
It's a shame really, we call cows out mother, yet we support milk industry, the most crucial and exploitative industry of all, we force impregnate the poor cows every 10 months, we take their milk , we kill thier male calves and exploits the female ones, we beat them to death, we skin them alive , when kill them and sell thir meat and body parts for money....
If anything we should be ashamed of ourselves.
@@modestoca25 yea , when any one says that to me now, I just say "it's better to be thin , than to be morbidity obese"
The way we do things, with profit as the main focus and not societal welbeing.. seems to be today's biggest issue.
We have such abundance.... instead small farmers are losing everything...
Does not seem right.
Lol there has to be a motive for people to work. Usually when intellectuals step in to try and run a business like you described, they end up massively failing. "societal wellbeing" is an opinion after all.
Duh, social wellbeing doesn't pay the bills.
@@acommentator69 Well, I personally volunteer a lot.... I feel happier serving what feels like a societal need over focusing on profit.
After 25 years of serving a company that barely regards their employee's as anything but a number...
After seeing people work themselves to literal death..
I'd rather give the kids a world they deserve then be so caught up about a man made fiction.
Reality is, those with amazing skills and ideas are losing the game.
How do we fix that?
Its not the day we run out of quality produced food, we should begin asking that.
@@TherealSakuraKei What a joke. No one will accomplish anything with no incentive and those who want to will quickly get burned out working for nothing while watching 80% of the population sit on their ass. It will get old real quick. You are not entitled to jack shit.
@@acommentator69 Arguing with people on the internet isin't a job volunteer for though. You are also simultaneously in part correct.
The worlds full of people.
For some the insentive isin't money, its doing what is in moral alignment with their being.
For many many others, its about what they can get for themselves.
When the government tells you milk is unhealthy you know you need to drink as much milk as possible.
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They could instead give it Syrians..Lebanese and many people that need it sell it at very low price or whatever you want
Imagine people are hungry all over the world…some have throw it away..what a waste 😱😓
GO VEGAN
@@insectbite1714 no
@@insectbite1714 no
Most people in the world cannot consume milk for a baby cow
@@insectbite1714 yes
It’s probably so naive of me to say and due to lacking a full understanding of how the supply chain works but why can’t they just make less….stop raising so much livestock until it levels out. This seems like way more work to manage all this surplus’s than to just work less and produce less
The problem is generally that the govt doesn't take sufficient measures to help the farmers move to something else. And farmers continue producing same stuff because it sells(to the govt).
India has similar issues with excess rice and wheat production. The govt keeps buying it, they have to because otherwise farmers will go in debt. And farmers keep producing same stuff because that is what sells easily.
Govt need to balance out what they buy, and help producers shift to those needs accordingly.
Also long term solutions don't work because a politician only looks 4-5 years ahead.
You have perfectly described how a communist/socialist country work!
The less they produce, the less money they can potentially make.
Imagine if the local restaurant just stops cooking because there is no customer. May as well close up shop right?
They know what they are doing , it’s theatrics , they want the government to give them a check
@@weeksweeks9552 It seems pretty communistic to me when your government buying surplus diaries for the taxpayers money. Keep on producing stuff nobody wants, the government pays!
I had been able to eat dairy products in Spain no problem until I lived for a year in the US, a few months in I just could eat out nor eat anything premade since almost everything has cheese or cream. And I'm not the only person who became dairy intolerant after being in the US.
People are complicated things.
And developing allergies after moving to a new area is a thing.
Moving exposes you to a whole new set of things you can develop an allergy to over time.
It happens to Americans moving within the country as well. I'm positive it works that way everywhere.
Ever drink the water in puerto rico?
It might be due to the caesin in American cows being different from the ones in Europe, esp. Spain.
@@Magnulus76 true, i grew up in country that drink tea more than milk, and never lactose intolerance. Moved to US and became lactose intolerant, but i don't care i love American milk, so I keep drink the shit out of it. Since we do produce fresh milk commonly back home, we drink condensed or powdered milks there. I do not like that, and love the fresh milk in The States
@@orale_ have you?? Nothing wrong with it. Same process as the mainland
Same problems here in Holland: overproduction, and farmers switching to goats for milk & cheese. Until there are too many goats, etc.
It’s difficult to hear that we have this stock pile of food yet we have starving children around the world🤔
It's not America's job to solve the worlds problems.
Only charity work can pay all the effort to redistribute food. Governments dont help one another unless theyre looking for something in return.
@@BigPoppa-Monk What the hell are they doing in the Middle East then?
@@rakha8812 Ask Israel.
@@BigPoppa-Monk ya their job is to increase the problem these beta people don't understand the sigma American Mindset 🇺🇸
Lactose intolerance isn't helping me but I'll love butter, cream, and cheese until the end of time.
Lactose inolerance is a spectrum. Some are more affected than others.
"Director of Dairy Policy Analysis" well there's a title I never thought I'd see
If it makes money, there will be all sorts of titles around it.
Go vegan
Just look up National Dairy Council
People learned that you were injecting cows with antibiotics, that's why so many bacterias and virus strains have adapted and doesn't work. In Europe Doctors can't use antibiotics unless it's extreme emergency.
Lol it takes North America a long time to learn any lessons
I stopped drinking milk a long time ago when I found out how much they waste to keep the price high.
I’ll stick with water, tea, coffee Thankyou.
Wait till you hear about the bullshit in the coffee industry lol.
Ah yes coffee, the perfectly ethical industry
animal factories contribute to global warming, i'll just stick to my coffee thanks
Well, milk has also been getting worse and worse over the past 50 years. I used to love milk, not anymore. If it's high quality organic milk, it's _usually_ decent, but sometimes not even then.
Exactly! Most milk begins to smell terrible after a few days, or as soon as it gets warm! I've stopped drinking it entirely because of this
Cow milk doesn't taste as good as oat milk & I'm saying that after I've had delicious cream top milk. Oat milk also doesn't add to our unfortunate carbon emission crisis
@@AlyxGlide I've got some in the fridge, thanks. But it's no substitute for proper milk.
Have to get organic grass fed but it's like $5 a gallon. I buy it because I like to buy good food but also have the $$$ to. Unfortunately not everyone has that ability.
@@realityhittingme True. That's still cheaper per gallon than oat milk though, which someone suggested as a substitution in the comments. I also like spending money on food, I don't spend it on much else, actually.
this reminds me of my moms side of the family, they were small time dairy farmers for generations, about 10 years ago though my uncle retired and now no one in my family is a farmer.
Ó╭╮Ò
That's sad. The loss of a legacy.
@@billbillerton6122 It's not too bad, I'm still in touch with my moms side of the families culture (Germanic American) so I figure that's more important than continuing to milk cows
What happened to the farm?
Was confused about rise and fall of "milk".
Damn even milk suffered
I've been drinking almond milk for over a decade now and honestly it just tastes way better to me, I can't go back to cow milk
It really depends on the brand of almond milk though, because each brand tastes completely different
Almond milk felt so bland.
Almond milk production is causing death of bees, right?
@@adityapatil325 lol no
Good for you, but as the farmer said it isn't milk coz it doesn't have any dairy in it.
@@robertlakay88 Then it's plant based milk
I have had milk straight from the cow, she lived in the barn under the house, at my aunty's farm in Spain. Commercial milk pales in comparison to fresh milk.
Mum made us kids drink a pint of milk each day to build strong bones. That was in the late 60s early 70s when milk still tasted like milk.
I'm lucky enough that there's a big local dairy near the city I live in in America that only pasteurizes the milk and does still grass graze cattle. They have Ice cream shops that churn fresh soft serve on site and also sell the milk at the ice cream shops. The difference between it and the ultrapastrized and homogenized grocery store milk is like night and day. It's no wonder people don't want to drink that processed trash. People also don't want processed cheese anymore, which is why the American stockpile is just sitting there. It's worth paying a little more for far better product.
I had the privillege to taste fresh milk that didn't originate from supermarkets as well. It spoiled faster, yes, but it was so good, especially with the berries we used to gather!
Fresh milk do be better doe
@@raceris7309 raw milk does not spoil, it just changes form to cheese curds and whey / yogurt / soured milk. Just means the bacteria pre digests the milk so it is even easier to digest.
@@jackward770 not a big fan of the taste of sour milk, but, yeah, it's not "spoiled", just tastes kinda nasty... and stinks.
Speaking as an exdairy farmer the faster the government gets out of the farmers business the better! I had a farm and milked 60 to 80 head in the 80’s and 90’s.
"the faster the government gets out of the farmers business" if milk prices were allowed to fluctuate to its market equilibrium it wound simply accelerate the number of farmers being driven out of business by big farming corporations.
@@turbulentmk Government messing with the economy only serves to create bubbles or to fill up the pockets of politicians
@@turbulentmk then that's how it's supposed to be. If you can't compete in the market your business is not efficient enough and therefore should not continue to operate.
I would *love* for them to stop subsidizing dairy and let it fall. Brutal industry worked by equally brutal and/or exploited people.
The Vegan Teacher: I see this as a plus!
“Don’t drink milk, drink beer. Milk is for babies.”
- Seven-time Mr Olympia champion Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He also said " screw your freedom"
when you take copious amounts of [vitamins] like arnie, you can eat and drink pretty much whatever you want.
@@uberneanderthal “ vitamins” you mean the extra expensive ones that you shoot up in your arm 😂
@@uberneanderthal Everyone was juiced. It was an equal playing field. Arnie still did the work.
@@ChristianF15cher no respect for people who juice. I will have more respect for someone with 1/2 the muscle mass of Arnold but who didn't use steroids to get there.
Unpopular opinion: milk is my favourite drink.
it’s mine too
Same here
I'm lactose now so I can't have milk anymore. Sad days.
Ayy same
Wrong. Chocolate milk done right is the best drink
Why is ice cream getting more and more expensive when the price of "dairy" keeps dropping? Is it because of the subsidies?
vanilla prices most likely. real vanilla beans are extremely expensive
Ice cream is addictive (sweets) milk is not, hence the trend in flavored milk products.
Sugar, like sex, sells...
@@idioticfreek which is why nearly all vanilla ice creams use imitation vanilla. Check the ingredients, it’s surprising how many use fake vanilla.
Great video, I did a paper on this, or at least what can be defined as "milk". There's a gray area to what can be labeled "milk", but this issue has more to do with the decreasing demand of dairy milk (lobbyists want to make it a semantics issue) than non-dairy milk wanting to wipe dairy milk from the market.
non-dairy milk does not kill animals and slaughter their newborn male calves.
Many cows sent to slaughter are carrying a fetus that spills out when they
are sliced in two. It is not a kind industry at all, it is cruel and selfish. I am
proud to drink almond and soymilk instead. As a male, why would you drink
(or eat) anything with huge amounts of estrogens in it?.
In our country (sri lanka) there's no day without milk 😢 if American dairy consumption is low you'll can export to other country's(I'm not sure whether this is a good idea because I'm still 12 yrs old )
it possible to export it to other countries but exporting it take times Milk became sour very fast and so they need a faster way to export it like airport but it is still impossible to export it to country which are too far
airplane*
All we need is now USA or European visa. Because sir and mahinda crew hodatama karanwa 😹😹😹
Lol I'm American and I drink at least 3 glasses of milk a day
That would be some incredibly expensive milk to export. Shipping rates are so high and many shipments are delayed by 3 weeks.
When the MMB in England and Wales was removed be the government dairy farmers had a once in a lifetime chance to really get the right price for their milk by working co-operatively. Milk Marque was successful to begin with and farmers achieved 26.6 ppl ( from memory), Guess what? Farmers are both greedy and bad business people. A chap from Northern Foods single handed lay ruined the dream for his fellow farmers by guaranteeing 1 ppl more than MMQ if they joined the Northern milk partnership. His fellow loons did and weakened the Milk Marque price but yes they got a penny more. I once asked a farmer in Oswestry if he’d be happy getting a penny more than 12 ppl. He said he would the daft pillock. The HUGE opportunity for dairy farmers in England and Wales was wrecked by farmers greed and stupidity. Last time I looked the milk price was still around 26 ppl 25 years later.
The only saving grace is that dairy farmers are so stupid they still don’t see what damage they caused themselves. Richard Smith was the man who ruined the whole dairy industry for farmers by being as thick as two short planks.
I switched to plant milk to lower my sugar intake. Cereal already has tons of sugar, I don't need even more sugar added with cow's milk.
GO VEGAN
No, you should stop eat cereal as your breakfast. It has nothing but sugar
@@insectbite1714 KFC tastes good
@@scorpioteez233 plenty of cereal doesn't have much sugar. Most cereal I buy has 10g of sugar per cup or less. less than 20g sugar per day is perfectly healthy
@@poochyenarulez do they have other nutrition tho, and what about compared to foods like eggs? Ofc busy mornings are a thing and cereal isn’t a cardinal sin, but less sugar definitely better and cereal is such an easy way to consume it…
In the West they can dump milk, if anyone tries that in Asia they'll have their grandmothers right there to teach them lessson.
Are you mad
That's Chinese
damn milk really fell off
Go vegan
@@insectbite1714 Go away instead
@@insectbite1714 na
Not for baby cows
It had a hell of a run though
The entire video they talk only about the levels of consumption and production in the USA, but in the end they mention the percentage of lactose intolerants around the world(which as far as I know isn't the same as in the USA), as something that should affect the market...
Go vegan
@@insectbite1714 lmao
@@insectbite1714 go vegan? Why?
They make it out as if the entire rest of the world were lactose intolerant. Man the lies.
If I drink milk I start coughing up phlegm the next few days. Not lactose intolerant. Almond milk settles better. Cows milk makes me feel greasy.
Sensitive
Agreed. Try oat milk too!
@@KpR333 naaah, adults are just more lactosr intolerant to dairy milk
Western problems
@@youraveragepasser-by7367 no its just the new generation is sensitive to everything
I doubt we’ll see milk fall off the shelf’s for quite a while but it kinda sucks bc I actually still drink milk regularly, I’ve been like that since I was basically born till now tbh lmao
Where funny?
I couldn’t stop thinking about how Americans substituted milk for soda and cheese being on the rise just for its use with junk food. I know it kinda is a stereotype but lmao.
and they kinda exported that culture everywhere too
Soda isn't on the rise...
I hate American cheese yucky goop.
@@121476 Bunch of other canned drinks and bags of food then.
Actually, the processed cheese products you are thinking of are not popular and are basically desperation food. We do produce and consume a lot of 'real' cheeses in America. The problem with drinking milk is that the big factory farm corporations ultrapastrize and homogenize milk to make it have a longer shelf life, to increase profits, but it makes the milk taste weird. I drink milk all the time because there's a local creamery that sells superior milk.
Come on man, milk can be turned to milk power and shipped to other countries where they need it
Most of the world is lactose intolerant- they don't need it. You also crash local markets when you do this creating more poverty.
@@namehere4954 Those who drink milk passionately, already produce enough.
Countries like India, are the biggest consumer and Producer of milk.
They don't need American Companies to supply milk here.
@@thebestevertherewas yes, that's what I've said. Not only is the milk not wanted but it has adverse effects on local markets - the US did this to Haiti with rice and it destroyed Haitian rice market & created more poverty.
@@thebestevertherewas well I didn't mean India, I am sure there must be few African countries who could use this
Well, im asian who does not lactose intolerant and loved all kind of milk but after seeing this really make me concerned for next couple of years
Same as an asian I drink a lot of milk, as being told it’s really good,for me.
@@Eisss9 nub
Why are you concerned? You can still get milk.
@@ANPC-pi9vu Uhhh milk can got to a shortage?
Concerned about what?
Here's bsn idea. How abut dairy fsrmers start making cream cheese. NYC is facing a shortage of the stuff. what else are we supposed to smear on our bagels?
Instead of subsidized factory farming, pivot to a pasture raised livestock Model. Fewer cows on more land where they can eat grass and get sunshine. Adopt a regenerative grazing model. This is what people want. Healthy milk from healthy cows. End the raw milk ban. The homogeneous pasteurized milk lacks enzymes needed to digest milk. Raw milk has everything
Unfortunately there are those who want to capitilise everything as far as possible. Should really make laws that kimit how big these companies are allowed to get.
exactly my point. people are waking up and becoming more health conscious then ever wanting the best and pasteurised milk just wont cut it anymore
I didn't know that federal government is buying dairy products from farmers. Government is paying farmers for more and more Methane emission. How can they meet their climate target?
Methane is only an issue in feedlots. On pasture all methane and CO2 is absorbed by the grass itself.
They also subsidize corn so it can be used in fuel which is also of course subsidized.
Well they don't want an entire industry goes into crisis again
Who cares. Milk tastes great
Shhh dont look into it
I'm surprised that North American milk consumption is declining. It's my favourite stuff to drink. I usually consume about a litre or a quart per day. My friends know how much I love milk & often joke about chipping in & buying me a cow for the backyard! I feel really sorry for anyone who's lactose intolerant. What a tragedy!
I feel you on that one. I love all kinds of dairy products
Disgusting
@@tianachet713 Why is it disgusting? Milk is healthy and delicious.
@@GoatyBoatyBH414 milk causes all types of disease, there's barely any milk in it because they subsidise it with crap
@@CyborgHD Milk has calcium and vitamins. I've drank it for the past 20 years and I'm as healthy as I can be.
All that wasted milk. How many people could have been fed on producta made with that milk? The Western civilization cannot seem to live without wasting reaources in excess
No wonder generic ice cream is so cheap in the US (milk + corn syrup)
C O R N S Y R U P
Just let it go. I haven't bought milk or cream in over 5 years. I do love cheese though, but I hardly ever purchase it for my home.
Who are you telling to let it go? The people who spend there intire lives making dairy and who need it to survive????
@@baileyjerman5573 I'm not telling anyone to do anything. The market is speaking for itself and we should not have to waste our tax money on products that are just being tossed anyway. Do you always get this triggered???
@@ItsMeHammie I am not triggered simply wondering why your saying let it go to?
In India 🇮🇳, this can never ever happen because there's a high demand for milk and lots and lots of milk products.
Chai is our drug to get us through the day.
Chai n mithai,
Paneer sabji n raita, dahi lassi.
Feels painful to watch excess but valuable milk going wastE
Indians are nowhere near the West .. here we got MacnCheez, Pizza and we put cheese in nearly everything.
@@kingofheartsxyz lol, cheese is not the only thing made out of milk....there's a ton of milk products which are exclusive to India
@@roshanjain147 Still not enough to compare or beat the Western Cuisines
For everyone here commenting on subsidies, as a dairy farmer, I personally think they should all go away. However also know that the USDA set price floor and the ass backwards 1930’s pricing formula that we are forced to abide by is a greater problem. We operate in nothing resembling a free market in terms of pricing, marketing and exporting. The whole mess needs to be scrapped but politicians like cheap food policy. When I was running my own farm, the current US secretary of agriculture was pulling in $1,000,000 salary (plus kickbacks I assume) as head of marketing agency Dairy Management Inc. which we farmers are forced to contribute a portion of our income to. Meanwhile we were paid 10-20% below cost of production.
I can believe everything you are saying and agree with. It's honestly a no win situation for the farmer. Mix that in with labor cost etc, it's hard to run your farm.
Pisses me off when the profits in a job-chain are robbed from the actual people who do the work.
its either in your blood or it isn't. I don't mind working 7 days a week for 12 months and not making a dollar. The thing that sends shivers down me spine is waking up to bellowing cows and not being able to feed them. Day after day, really grinds you down!
@@theobradley5926 you still deserve to make a living and your farm be profitable.
What do you do with the male calves?. How do your cows get pregnant,
with your arm shoved up their behind?. No offense but the dairy industry
is not kind to cow families, moms, or calves. No animal should be kept
constantly pregnant, and the milk is meant for their calves, not humans.
Many cows sent to slaughter are carrying a fetus; that is disgusting and
needs to be known. Make almond milk instead like Elmhurst.
Can you do the rise and fall of air next?
Subsidies and inflated support prices always create new problems
Idk i'm still obsessed with milk, nearly as much as when I was a kid. Though nowadays I don't take a massive glass and fill it to the brim with milk, but i do drink lots of it for tea and for cereal. I love milk, don't ask me why. Being a lowlander I am much less likely to be lactose intolerant cuz we drink and eat so much dairy here (though my mom became intolerant a few years back). But I can see why people drink it less and especially because its not as healthy as we were once taught and its also not a liquid our body is really built to handle properly.
How can you be obsessed with something that literally contains blood, pus and fecal matter as well as a plethora of hormones and meds? Then look at the often atrocious conditions these animals are kept in and how they suffer like having their calfs taken away and sold for slaughter or being imprisoned for the mere fact of having been born a cow. For me giving up dairy was a no brainer because it actually deeply disgusts me.
@@NeoAutodroid yea i drink milk and thats disgusting that some companies/farms do that. Praying it stops
@@NeoAutodroid meh, I like it LOL 😂😂😭😭 U NEED SOME MILK
@@NeoAutodroid Hey that's not all Milk farms you know, atleast where I live there are many good brands of Milk from free roaming cows you can find in pretty much any supermarket
I can't stand milk by itself. Coffee and cereal, yes. But I don't get the American thing about drinking milk by itself.
So this explains why the school systems were forcing a milk carton on every tray EVEN after intolerance was reported by parents…
Interesting 🧐🤔
Not exactly. Dairy market lobbyists had a lot more to do with that.
You could just not drink the milk or ask them to take the milk back since you can't drink it
Yeah and we had to pay for a water bottle
Should have mentioned specifically.. Rise and fall of milk in USA* South East Asia is on boom for milk
Govt should find solution like selling milk in minimum price to countries having malnutrition problem, which will be way better than simply dumping them
It doesn't fit into the cancel meat and dairy agenda.
It will destory farms in those countries.
@@itr8247 farms barely exist in starving countries like Angola,DRC and CAR etc.
I can't stand milk, unless I'm eating Oreos. 😊
I chit myself whenever I drink milk or ingest dairy products. I've been trying to cut out dairy products from my diet for the last few years. Great life improvements.
Thats probably cuase your lactose intolerant
@@baileyjerman5573 it is because of pasteurised milk destroys an enzyme in raw milk called lactase which breaks down a sugar (lactose) in milk
@@baileyjerman5573 not necessarily. Milk is simply not needed for adult humans. And it’s especially bad for skin, regardless of tolerance.
What a shock. The government subsidizes a product and the market is dysfunctional. End the guaranteed price and the market will settle to equilibrium.
Not a single word about the fact that humans seems to be OK with using sentient beings like cows as a product. I too was desensitized to this for a long time. Now I know what it takes to get milk from a mother cow, how much pain and torture is involved... It's really not something I can be ambiguous about anymore. I'm using far less, choosing oat alternatives for milk. I do eat yoghurt still, this seems hard to replace.
I never liked drinking plain milk. After I became lactose intolerant I discovered so many non-dairy alternatives, I use oat milk for my lattes and almond milk for cereal and smoothies. And non-dairy milk smells better and lasts longer too.
The fall of milk is a sign that the world needs less cows. Nobody talked about climate change, and farmers are concerned about their finances and not about the ecological impact of their production. Government instead of trying to “help” a dying polluting industry, should focus its efforts in helping farmers to transition to a more sustainable and growing economic activity.
Lucky to have a small dairy operation neighboring my farm that I sell my hay to. So the grass that I grow in my hayfields eventually becomes the milk that I get to drink which is pretty cool. Buy local if you can and support the farmers. Milk gang for life
*《《GO VEGAN!!!》》*
Nope. I don't support people who exploit animals! Most of the population lives in towns, buying local is just another feel good lie. Nope, I am vegan for all the right reasons!
@droods The point is that the cows should not have been born in the first place.
@@insectbite1714 this is what vegan teacher hypnosis does to your brain
In India , milk is my identity 😂
Like we use alot for making tea , Buttler , cheese , cake , curd , panner , energy drink , for making sweets