Wednesday, September 20, 2006
I don't even know why I bothered to check...
As I was drinking chocolate milk last week, my cousin asked me (with a disgusted expression) if I knew that chocolate milk was made with milk that has cows blood in it. I told her it wasn't true, but today as I was drinking some chocolate milk I had to make sure.

(The belief that cow's blood is to be scrupulously avoided at all costs is suspended in our dealings with meat products. No one recoils in horror at the thought that a steak or a hamburger contains cow's blood -- our beef with ingesting blood apparently stops at the fork.)

In the U.S.A., the Food and Drug Administration oversees the safety of food products. Stringent standards have been established for all milk destined for consumers, including the chocolate variety. It is telling that this agency's specifications contain no allowances for the use of blood-contaminated milk. Milk products (and other foodstuffs) that do not meet the agency's criteria do not gain FDA approval and thus cannot be sold to consumers.

In other words, the "cow's blood in the chocolate milk" story doesn't fly any better than a cow would.


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by pavandeep @ 5:05:00 PM 
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By Anonymous, at 9/22/2006 12:16 AM
hahahahahahahahha...yeah thanks for that conclusive sentence at the end..makes sense!

 
By Anonymous, at 10/22/2006 8:15 PM
go research cow's milk and pus.
the pus comes from the mastitis the cow has from being hooked up to a milking machine her whole, pitiful life. or think of the rape she endures to get her pregnant so she'll produce milk only to have her calf ripped away from her shortly after birth and locked in a veal crate for a few months until he's slaughtered.
oh, there's blood in milk all right. ;)

why not try soy milk? chocolate almond milk is especially delicious! there are so many alternatives....there's no need to consume cow's milk. :)

 
anonymous, thanks for ruining my life