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submitted 8 months ago by veeesix@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

"Consumption of milk per capita has gone down every year over the last 30 years," says Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. "Actually, it's gone down by more than 20 per cent since 2015."

While bagged milk is often cited as a unique Canadianism, it's actually not sold west of Ontario. Those who prefer it, however, say it's more cost efficient and some even believe it tastes better.

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[-] dlpkl@lemmy.world 75 points 8 months ago

With all the news about microplastics maybe we should go back to glass bottles.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 76 points 8 months ago

Glass's issue is transportation cost, so you'll want to make milk supply more local...wait a minute, this is starting to sound like commie shit

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 23 points 8 months ago

We have glass bottle milk in vancouver area. $1-$2 deposit on the bottle, good incentive to return it when you get your new bottle.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

I don't know if I can sarcastically say 'sounds like commie shit' any harder before it would sound like I'm actually against it

That does sound fantastic. How's the shelf(/fridge) life of the milk?

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

There was a local dairy in my hometown and they had a little shack set up on the road where you could buy bottles of milk. It was the best milk I've ever drunk in my life.

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[-] dlpkl@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Fuck it let's make our own milk at this point

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

I've got nipples, focker

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I would absolutely love the glass bottles.

I worry about breakage and substandard cleaning in the coming era of downsized food safety checkers in the Bitcoin Milhouse cabinet, but a few plebes dying from salmonella will fix that spending ... almost.

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[-] Octospider@kbin.social 41 points 8 months ago

With all the price gouging happening and shrinkflation, changing consumer habits could spell the end of food.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

You could always just eat the rich!

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

They're rotten toxic messes, though

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[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 33 points 8 months ago

Is it "changing consumer preferences", or is it the industry seeing an opportunity for shrinkflation.

[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

Clearly it's the shrinkflation

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[-] WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

I prefer kegged milk myself

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago
[-] myusernameis@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

Ooohh... With a nitro dispense system, yes please.

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 8 months ago

So Canadians are giving up on milk and just drinking maple syrup now? Sweet!

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 21 points 8 months ago

I once made the mistake of telling my american coworkers that I buy over a gallon of fresh maple syrup from a local sugar shack each year and I was excited for spring because I was running low… I think I warped their perception of the canadian diet.

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[-] asg101@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

How will our kids get their daily dose of microplastics????!!!!

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

Don't worry, they don't have to try, it's likely in well water at this point. Guaranteed most of your store bought food probably has it too.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

You guys drink milk out of bags? We use glass, plastic, or cardboard jugs down in the States.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Some places do things a bit differently. More news at 11

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[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

I love bagged milk, but I can't go through THREE FUCKING BAGS as a family of two.

They're more eco-friendly than the box or the jug, but I guess that goes against the goal of consuming more raw materials.

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

More eco-friendly? Where I am we can’t recycle any of the bags whereas the box and jug we can.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

It's worth remembering that being accepted in a blue bag and actually being recycled are two very different things. Much of the plastic we've "recycled" over the years just ended up in landfills in China.

Remember the old "Where does it go?" "Away," PSAs from the late '80s and early '90s? Well, plastic recycling has been that, but at an industrial scale.

To repeat: plastic bagged milk is more eco-friendly than cardboard?

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