Nation's Largest Milk Processor Files for Bankruptcy

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DALLAS (AP) – Dean Foods, America’s biggest milk processor, has filed for bankruptcy amid a steep, decades-long drop-off in U.S. milk consumption blamed on soda, juices and, more recently, nondairy substitutes.

The Dallas company said it may sell itself to the Dairy Farmers of America, a marketing cooperative owned by thousands of farmers.

Dean Foods Co. has lost money in eight of its last 10 quarters and in seven of its last eight quarters it’s posted declining sales.

Since 1975, the amount of milk consumed per capita in the U.S. has tumbled more than 40%. Americans consumed around 24 gallons per year in 1996, according to government data. That dropped to 17 gallons in 2018.

http://www.kmjnow.com/2019/11/12/nations-largest-milk-processor-files-for-bankruptcy/

[democratisphere]

1. Got to start drinking more milk to support dairy farmers.

Wish the farmers would do away with the cruel cow barns.

[Buckeyeblue]

2. I've never been able to drink milk. It's taste strange to me.

However, I do occasionally cook with milk, I like sour cream and yogurt sometimes. Oh, and let's not forget about butter. The real stuff.

[hunter]

3. I quit buying milk when our children were teens.

My wife and I don't drink milk (my wife is intolerant of it) and our children started drinking the soy milk their mom drank. The one gallon milk jugs in the refrigerator started to go bad long before they were finished so I just stopped buying it, and started to keep canned and powdered milk on hand for occasional baking.

If I was raising children again I wouldn't buy milk because the environmental footprint is just too large, and in many places the cows are not treated well, living miserable lives until they are slaughtered and sold as cheap hamburger. Those happy cows of advertising, grazing on green hills, are mostly a lie.

I only ever bought milk as a parent because that's what parents are "supposed" to do in our culture.

My mom's heritage is ranching and my dad's is dairy farming but I'm not a blind supporter of those industries.

There's a place for dairy farming and ranching in the modern world, but it's not in any way a nutritional necessity. The dairy industry's environmental footprint needs to be reduced, and the cruelest aspects of "factory farm" production of meat and dairy products need to stop.

It's not healthy to replace milk with soda or juice, or even some dairy substitutes, but that doesn't mean that cow's milk is an "essential" nutritional product.