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"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 10 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 76 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (9 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (15 children)

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

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

I've got nipples, focker

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You could always just eat the rich!

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're rotten toxic messes, though

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

So is chemotherapy, but something this malignant merits extreme interventions.

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Clearly it's the shrinkflation

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[–] WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I prefer kegged milk myself

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] myusernameis@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago (13 children)

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 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 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.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

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

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

It's not even all of Canada, just Ontario, Quebec, and the maritimes

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