Milk goes up $1/gallon starting soon. (Apparently just in NY though.. *phew*)

[DrPizza]

Forgot to mention that I didn't find any mention of milk prices going up nationally, but California's prices, which are state controlled, are supposed to go up about 41 cents per gallon.... not $1. Maybe the amount being paid to farmers is going up $1?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: Vic
Milk is bad for you anyway. After a half-gallon a day habit for most of my life, I stopped drinking milk last year and lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks.

Everything is bad for you and you should never eat anythign if you think like that.

Saying "everything is bad for you" is one of MY lines. Milk is legitimately quite bad for you. It contains a great deal of fat and lactic acid. So much lactic acid, in fact, that your body actually loses calcium when you drink milk, not gains it like the dairy industry's misleading ads say. You probably won't eat eggs because of cholesterol concerns but you'd drink milk? Be aware that you have been greatly misled...

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Forgot to mention that I didn't find any mention of milk prices going up nationally, but California's prices, which are state controlled, are supposed to go up about 41 cents per gallon.... not $1. Maybe the amount being paid to farmers is going up $1?

Link to story

 

[conjur]

I go through, maybe, 1 gallon of milk a week...maybe 2 if the kids eat cereal each day for breakfast. I don't drink any at all right now (doing the Atkin's diet...early phase). I'll only be looking at, what, $5-10 more per month?

<shrug>

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
tsk tsk, viper, rolling your eyes before you do a simple google search. As a matter of fact, yes it is.

The eye roll was at the feds setting the price of milk - I believed him, I just hate artificially controlled prices.

Viper GTS

 

[Kelemvor]

Why the hell don't dairy farmers get other jobs. Obviously they produce more milk than we need. In any other industry the weaker companies would die and the bigger ones would survive and the ones that died would go find something else to do. WHy the hell do we keep dragging these farmers along and giving them extra cash and things like that just to support them. Doesn't seem necessary to me. Just let soem die off, then there won't be a surplus.

 

[SithSolo1]

Kroger milk is teh bomb, and its cheap. Especially when you get the ones that expire in a few days and are half off. Around here we go through a gallon every 3-4 days sometimes 2.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: SSP

Originally posted by: CraigRT
that sucks... i love milk... it's already expensive dammit !

Note to Craig: you live in Ontario...... Canada.... this is for the US market.

So he buys floppy bags of homo milk?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: Vic
Milk is bad for you anyway. After a half-gallon a day habit for most of my life, I stopped drinking milk last year and lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks.

Everything is bad for you and you should never eat anythign if you think like that.

water is not bad for you!

Actually it can be, and without getting into some nasty water. Bottled water lacks minerals and will degrade your teeth. Water coming out of city sources typically contains flouride, which is a no no.

 

[MaxDepth]

Yikes! It is $2.19 gallon at Krogers in RTP, NC, already. Leseehere, 3 bucks for milk, 2 for bread, and 3 for deli sliced pound of baloney (or peanut butter and jelly). Damn, my simple lunch/meal is not going to be so simple anymore.

I think my simple meal is now rice noodles, goyza and soup. Tell me this 20 years ago, and I'd call you a liar.



EDIT: I go through 2 gallons a week.

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: ausm
Won't go up that high in my state...

Ausm

The joys of living in WI. Cheap dairy products.

I'm just glad we don't have to drink that California milk here.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Forgot to mention that I didn't find any mention of milk prices going up nationally, but California's prices, which are state controlled, are supposed to go up about 41 cents per gallon.... not $1. Maybe the amount being paid to farmers is going up $1?

Link to story

Thanks LordJezo..... that story is for New York state,

On Sept. 1, the new price limit for a gallon of milk - set by the state Department of Agriculture and Markets - goes to $3.60, up from $2.69,

That's still less than a dollar, and since I don't pay 2.69 now, I really doubt it will go up that much...
edit: but for the pizza shop.... we'll have to order a few tons of mozzarella before the price goes up again!

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SSP

Originally posted by: CraigRT
that sucks... i love milk... it's already expensive dammit !

Note to Craig: you live in Ontario...... Canada.... this is for the US market.

So he buys floppy bags of homo milk?

Hell yes, thats the Canadian way!

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
The eye roll was at the feds setting the price of milk - I believed him, I just hate artificially controlled prices.

Viper GTS

Its worse than you think. The price limit is a function of location. There is a town in Wisconsin that is the base - they get the lowest price per gallon. Then the price limit of milk goes up linearly the further your farm is located from that town! It was an attempt to limit all cow farms from being located in the same place. A cow farmer in California earns far more than a cow farmer in Wisconsin.

 

[ivol07]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: Vic
Milk is bad for you anyway. After a half-gallon a day habit for most of my life, I stopped drinking milk last year and lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks.

Everything is bad for you and you should never eat anythign if you think like that.

Saying "everything is bad for you" is one of MY lines. Milk is legitimately quite bad for you. It contains a great deal of fat and lactic acid. So much lactic acid, in fact, that your body actually loses calcium when you drink milk, not gains it like the dairy industry's misleading ads say. You probably won't eat eggs because of cholesterol concerns but you'd drink milk? Be aware that you have been greatly misled...

...one of those egg council creeps got to you too huh?
uhhhh... no homer, it ain't like that...

you'd better run egg!!

 

[badluck]

water is bad for you if you over-hydrate yourself.....i just read a story of a lady who died during a marathon from over-hydration...

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Why the hell don't dairy farmers get other jobs. Obviously they produce more milk than we need. In any other industry the weaker companies would die and the bigger ones would survive and the ones that died would go find something else to do. WHy the hell do we keep dragging these farmers along and giving them extra cash and things like that just to support them. Doesn't seem necessary to me. Just let soem die off, then there won't be a surplus.

there are lots of reasons, main one is safety. its safer to have many small producers instead of a few large ones. look at the giant egg farms and chicken factories.

 

[EvilTwin996]

I think I'll just stop buying it. Milk is already $4.09/gallon at the local Safeway here in Renton, WA. For some reason Washington state has the highest milk prices in the nation...I read the Nat'l average was $2.69. It averages at LEAST a buck more here. :disgust:

 

[Kung Lau]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: SSP

Originally posted by: CraigRT
that sucks... i love milk... it's already expensive dammit !

Note to Craig: you live in Ontario...... Canada.... this is for the US market.

So he buys floppy bags of homo milk?

Homo milk? :Q

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Kung Lau

Homo milk? :Q

Someone hasn't been introduced to the wonders that is homo milk.

 

[blurredvision]

I guess this is the governments way of reaping back the losses from the tax cuts Bush handed out earlier to parents with children.

If you gave mothers and fathers with young children a couple hundred, then charge extra for the milk the children inevitibaly drink.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: Vic
Milk is bad for you anyway. After a half-gallon a day habit for most of my life, I stopped drinking milk last year and lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks.

What were you doing drinking half a gallon a day anyway? 3 8oz glasses a day won't get you fat.

 

[dmcowen674]

You should post this in P&N too.

I'm sure they picked this time to raise the price when Gas prices reach all time highs because the price of a gallon of gas is always compared to the orice of a gallon of milk. This will be the new benchmark to leave both Gas and milk at the higher prices.

 

[VictorLazlo]

[Bart] Ow! Why are my bones so brittle? I always drink plenty of.........MALK!

 

[MangoTBG]

Originally posted by: Vic
Milk is bad for you anyway. After a half-gallon a day habit for most of my life, I stopped drinking milk last year and lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks.

I NEED to stop. I'm nearing 1/2 gallon a day, myself. I go and buy 2 gallons everytime I shop. It's a bad habbit, I guess.