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Someone commented on my post today and said:

“Grocery store milk isn’t highly processed. They just heat it up and cool it down.”

So let’s clear the air on what REALLY happens between the cow and your gallon of milk.

When a dairy cow is milked, that milk doesn’t just get heated and bottled.

First, it’s collected and hauled to a processing facility. Then the milk is filtered and clarified. After that, it’s run through a separator that literally spins the milk apart into cream and skim milk.

Then they standardize it. In other words, they take the milk apart and put it back together to achieve an exact fat percentage. That’s how every gallon of whole milk tastes nearly identical year-round regardless of the cow, breed, season, or feed.

Next comes pasteurization, where the milk is heated and rapidly cooled.

Then comes homogenization. The milk is forced through tiny openings under extremely high pressure to break the fat globules into microscopic pieces so the cream never rises to the top.

Many products then have vitamins added back in because some naturally occurring vitamins were removed along with the cream during processing.

Then it’s packaged, warehoused, transported, distributed, stocked, purchased, transported again, and finally ends up in your refrigerator.

And speaking of that…

Most people would be shocked to learn that the milk in the grocery store isn’t from cows milked yesterday. Depending on processing schedules, transportation, warehousing, and store inventory, that milk may have been collected days or even weeks before it ever reaches your refrigerator.

This isn’t a debate about what’s right or wrong. Plenty of people choose grocery store milk and that’s their choice.

But let’s stop pretending commercial milk is simply “heated up and cooled down.”

There’s a whole lot more that happens between the cow and the carton.

I love to make posts just so they’ll pop up on my memories for years to come. Forever grateful for the beauty of God’s creation.

We’ve taken a deposit on all shares of beef!

We are so thankful for all of you and your interest in our forage fed and finished beef.
•Your shares are confirmed when you pay your deposit.
•We only have 4 quarters of beef left.