We’re too nice to poor people in the USA, they should be throwing out that milk on public tv while chanting “You can never have this, stay poor, nah nah nah nah!”
In Ontario people call the milk board the milk mafia - it seems they control production to a large extent (which in theory can help farmers) but in practice makes it really difficult for small producers to get the permits they require to be able to legally sell milk. Thus it is the 2-3 large dairy companies that produce almost all the milk. It’s sad.
the bags are nice, i wish i could buy oat milk in bags. Bags are nice for houses that go through a lot of milk.
World without milk bags: if you’re low on milk then you buy another 4L jug, and then have 8L of space in your fridge taken by milk (the in-use jug, and the full unopened jug).
World with milk bags: 3 per pack for total of 4L. if you’re running low on milk and buy another 4L of reserve milk, then you only have 5.133L of space taken up by milk in your fridge (4L of new milk, and 1.33L taken by the currently in use bag)
There are plenty of milk alternatives available these days. Is anyone calling for a milk boycott there?
Also many Americans would start to chug milk in front of you if you suggest that you shouldn’t drink cow milk
iirc cheese is the only food product the US stores. No grains or anything like that, just cheese. Really just shows that the “strategic reserves” are just there to subsidize the farmers rather than actually plan for an emergency
There are others but they’re not as significant as the cheese reserve once was.
Part of that is cost of administration. Cheese was developed to store dairy many thousands of years ago. It’s inherently relatively stable so to store it all you need is a cave and a soldier to man the entrance. Grain has a shelf life and needs to be periodically rotated and inspected to keep mold and bacteria from spreading, so you need that soldier and a bunch of people who know how to prevent bulk loss.
It’s inherently relatively stable so to store it all you need is a cave and a soldier to man the entrance
Going to need a lot more than one man to stop me from going on the world’s biggest cheese heist
Okay this one made me audibly say “no fucking way this country is actually doomed”
Anything that actually disrupts the logistics chain will make the worst myths of the Soviet famines look like little whoopssies where you forgot to buy a fresh bag of flour during your last grocery run
Iirc we used to have an actual grain reserve, but in the last decade or two it was liquidated and instead we have a fund set aside for purchasing grain in a similar emergency. So we financialized the grain reserve
Seriously? They don’t stockpile like wheat or corn? I know they have a fuckload of corn, why aren’t they storing it? Cheese is so far down the priority list of what food you should stockpile
I think there is a reserve of wheat and corn, but it’s puny compared to the enormous amounts produced every year. However as another commenter here explained, CHeese is incredibly easy to store, and functions as a way to store diary anyway, so it doesn’t really take much to create a strategic reserve. Much harder to do that with corn and wheat, which goes bad and grows mold if left unanttended.
Seriously? They don’t stockpile like wheat or corn? I know they have a fuckload of corn, why aren’t they storing it? Cheese is so far down the priority list of what food you should stockpile
most of the subsidized USA corn isn’t actually the kind you can grill and eat.
It’s the kind used for animal feed that humans can’t actually directly eat. I think that it’s the same one used in high-fructose corn syrup, but idk if it can be used for cornmeal or anything like that.
Hey look, capitalism solved the overproduction problem! Such a wonderful solution, too.
