With all the price gouging happening and shrinkflation, changing consumer habits could spell the end of food.
Is it "changing consumer preferences", or is it the industry seeing an opportunity for shrinkflation.
Clearly it's the shrinkflation
So Canadians are giving up on milk and just drinking maple syrup now? Sweet!
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.
The crazy part is, I don’t consume maple syrup that often. But when I do, it’s always way too much.
Name checks out.
We know in our hearts it's not true. But we cling to what little magic remains in our minds and hearts and enjoy the fantasy that it is true.
How will our kids get their daily dose of microplastics????!!!!
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.
Are these changing consumer habits mostly being driven by how insanely expensive and low quality milk products are becoming? Canadian cheese and butter are trash and cost an arm and a leg - especially when you get into goat and sheep cheeses that a lot of lactose intolerant west coasters prefer.
Having had the cheese available in America, I have to say better grasses makes better cheese.
I refute your assessment of Canadian cheese, my good man, and I shall be available by the flagpole after recess. It's a duel.
Oh we're definitely better than America but we should be able to match up against Europe.
Why are you getting down voted so much? You are absolutely right. Canadian milk products (including milk) are complete garbage. We can thank our milk cartels for that, plus the really stupid regulations put into place over concerns of germs that basically limits the amount of raw or non-homogenized milk on the market.
How come most of Europe can produce far superior tasting cheeses and also consume fresh milk from milk vending machines, but there's an inane control on it in North America?
It's funny we have no issues drinking milk from many animals, but people would be grossed out knowing it's milk from a human breast, and wouldn't drink it.
Edit: changed any to many
It's funny we have no issues drinking milk from any animal
Bruh we definitely have issues drinking milk from other animals.
Have you ever seen anyone drink Dog Milk? Cat Milk? Possum Milk? Pangolin Milk? Motherfuckin... Platypus Milk? They all mammals.
What I'm wondering is, we have made strides to synthetically make milk with the use of yeast to make the proteins. So theoretically, we could make any milk. Why are we making cows milk this way?
You guys drink milk out of bags? We use glass, plastic, or cardboard jugs down in the States.
It's not even all of Canada, just Ontario, Quebec, and the maritimes
Isn't milk kinda useless for humans after they stop being toddlers?
Do you eat cereal with water?
Soy milk exist. Almond milk. Rice milk.
Oh ya, totally useless. Humans don't derive any nutrition from milk. It just teleports through their body.
I've yet to see adults drinking milk naturally meant for humans(aka breast milk) the dairy industry really got us good in brain washing
I don't think any food is naturally meant for us, but that doesn't stop us from eating it. Humans are pretty good at digesting organic compounds for sustenance.
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.
More eco-friendly? Where I am we can’t recycle any of the bags whereas the box and jug we can.
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.
I've always wondered about the bagged milk... Don't they get broken a lot? I'm genuinely curious
I'm in my 40s and I can only remember one bag breakingon me, but that's because my dumb ass dropped it.
That's why you should always use your hands to carry things!
The plastic feels a bit like a heavy duty ziplock bag, or piping bag material, made as a tube (so strong shape, structurally) then flat sealed on both ends. Quite thick so not that easy to puncture by accident. Once in a while there’s one that leaks but they get removed at the grocery store by stockers, mostly. It’s easy to spot, it just looks flat and at worst (if the hole is on the bottom), there’s a liter and some of milk all over in their fridge.
They’re super tough. Never seen one break.
It happens, but not very often. I used to work dairy in a grocery store, so you’d see it, fairly often, but usually we the workers would catch it (because the bag would be leaking).
I’ve never seen a bag pop, or puncture outside of that.
Tastes better 🤣🤣🤣🤣 those micro plastics sure kick up the flavor a few notches!!
Don't worry, those plastic jugs and plastic lined cardboard boxes are fulfilling your daily microplastic requirements just fine.
Nearly ever milk receptacle except for glass will be sealed with plastic. Microplastics are not a bagged milk specific problem.
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